Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas.
As always, be aware that changes to the meeting schedule (and agendas) are known to happen throughout the week. For an updated list of meetings, visit the Town website.
These days, most (but not all) meetings, can be participated in, watched live, and replayed from home.)**
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 10:00 am @ Southborough Library Eaton Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Meeting to evaluate use of Library grounds
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Southborough Senior Center, 9 Cordaville Road (agenda) Agenda Highlights: MBTA Zoning outreach and public mapping session for area within 1/2 mile of train station
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Subcommittee Reports; Overview of schedule/decision points; Committee votes and discussion on which scenarios to further study
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 12:00 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room, 32 Cordaville Road (agenda) Agenda Highlights: School Committee Office Hours
- Cable Television Committee Meeting, 2:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Prepare for public hearing
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review and sign off on requests for uncollectable tax writeoffs and preliminary FY23 tax commitments; approve FY25 Tax Map Maintenance Contract
- Southborough Scholarship Advisory Committee Meeting, 5:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Meet scholarship recipients and family – followed by joint meeting with Select Board and presentation of awards
- Select Board Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Cable Committee Public Hearing; Trottier School Civics Action Project; Appointment of Recreation Director; Updates on Neary Building Committee financial report, Hopkinton water project, Town survey distribution, Chestnut Hill Farm, One Stop grant, and Regionalized Dispatch (RECC); Approve submitting special act(s) to Legislature, Review FY25 Committee Appointments; Review of committees for possible reorganizations and/or reductions in size
- Cable Television Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on Verizon renewing Verizon license
- Southborough Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room, 32 Cordaville Road (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review and prioritize grant survey for community input; Elect officers
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room, 32 Cordaville Road (agenda) Agenda Highlights: School Committee Office Hours
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee – Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting, 1:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review building performance timeline and tasks; LEED vs CHP; additional match for Indoor Air Quality and Specialized Code discussion and decision; Code compliance pathway confirmation
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room, 32 Cordaville Road (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Town Dump and implications; No Spray Signs; Town Forest; Community Gardens; Interpretive sign review; Meadow; Mow/trails
*I don’t list meetings that are only closed Executive Sessions unless the agenda indicates the possibility of some action in an open public session at the opening or closing of the meeting.
**Details on watching meetings remotely:
- Town Committee/Board Meetings:
- If in-person meetings don’t also advertise a zoom option, assume that it won’t be broadcast or captured on video.
- To remotely participate in meetings that allow zoom, click here.
- To live stream (or view later) remote or hybrid meetings (even those covered by Southborough Access Media) over the internet, use the Town’s YouTube Channel for Remote Meetings. (The meetings covered by SAM can also be streamed on their website here, and eventually on SAM’s YouTube Channel.)
- Cable Access — Southborough Access Media broadcasts the regular evening meetings for the Select Board, Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Appeals that take place in the Town House Hearing Room. (Those meetings will still allow zoom participation.) View SAM’s live and replayed broadcasts via their Government cable access channel (Verizon-37 and Charter-194).
