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. (Scroll down for details on any meetings that popped up after last Monday’s post.) 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, July 15, 2024
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: text
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda with materials) Agenda Highlights: Approve selling $7.5M bond notes; Lease of 36 parking spaces to OBAS transportation
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Subcommittee reports; Presentation from School Administration on plans for Neary students during construction; Updates from consultant on site analysis, program requirements and square footage, cost estimate updates, and updated planning studies
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Neary Building Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting with Neary Building Committee
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- Cable Television Committee Meeting, 2:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of Revised Verizon Renewal License
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Senior retiree benefit plan update and survey results; Cable Committee Recommendation to approve Verizon Renewal License; Trails Committee ARPA funding request; Conservation appointment; Public Hearings on FY25 Transfer Station Regulations and FY25 Water Dept. Regulations; Discuss Civil Engineer and Board & Committee vacancies; Update on OneStop application for Route 9 zoning; Response to OML complaint; Appoint OSPC rep to CPC; Committee Reappointments; Authorize Public Works to plant trees on 84 Main Street property; Consider charges for AHTFC-SHOPC Consolidation Working Group, Stewardship, and Scholarship Committees; Draft warrant for September 30, 2024 Special Town Meeting; Status report on regional dispatch [Editor’s Note: The agenda went missing from the Town website this morning. You can read the version I downloaded here. But it may get replaced with a new version.]
- Cable Television Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Select Board on recommendation to approve Verizon Renewal License
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet, Park Central materials) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Adult Day Health Care Center at 337 Turnpike Road and Park Central 40B (status of Land Court case)
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda and packet, video) Agenda Highlights: Amend charges/memberships for Scholarship and Stewardship Committees; Tricentennial Committee update and potential fundraiser; Timeline for submission of Citizens’ Petitions for Special Town Meeting; Change lead town of Stormwater IMA Consortium; Joint Meeting with Advisory Committee (see topics below)
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Select Board
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Select Board on FY24 interdepartmental transfers & Reserve Fund Transfers, possibilities of increasing CPA surtax to 3% and creating a Stormwater Enterprise Fund, Review potential articles for Special Town Meeting
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda and packet, video) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Reservoir Trail road maintenance, 225 Cordaville Road replacement of shed, 1 Andrews Way reconstruction of a deck, 25 Park Street confirmation of resource area boundaries, replacement and installation of distribution poles (Main St, Ware Rd, Brigham St, Johnson Rd, and Northboro Rd), 170 Woodland Road construction of pool and relocation of shed, and 20 & 22 Turnpike Road restoration of buffer zone activities, 120 Turnpike Road 40B (60-unit apartment building); elect officers; recommend member appointment; Peer review contract; Request for Certificate of Compliance (invalid) for 10 Presidential Drive; 12 Walnut Drive chicken coop; Enforcement Order & discussions for 34 Sears Road & 200 Southville Road; 2 East Main expired Order of Conditions & storage of millings; Chestnut Hill Farm discussion & management plan; Breakneck Hill Farm Dump progress
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Employee Transition Report; Performance Appraisal Certifications and annual salary increases; Discuss Special Town Meeting Article to update Schedule A & C of Salary Administration Plan; Review Survey of Longevity payments; Discuss existing Employee Salary structure
*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).
- School Committee Meetings:
- Subcommittee meetings and some special meetings are only available to attend/view live (in person or by “webinar”) with no later rebroadcast.
- Regular Regional School Committee meetings (or Combined meetings based at Algonquin) are live broadcast by Northborough Cable Access here and on Southborough’s Education Channel (Verizon-29 and Charter-194). The meetings are also eventually rebroadcast and available through NCAT’s VideoOnDemand player and YouTube channel (though that can take several days).
Updated (11/15/24 10:05 am): The Select Board agenda and packet for July 16th went missing from the Town website this morning. You can read the version I downloaded here. But it may get replaced here with a new version
Updated (7/15/24 10:34 am): Town Administrator Mark Purple informed me that the Select Board agenda is temporarily down as the Town Clerk’s office works through a technical difficulty. It will be reposted.
