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 22, 2024
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda with materials) Agenda Highlights: Neary Building Committee update on project and placement of students during construction; Capital Plan Update; Review draft Action Plan responding to public feedback (contract signed for External Audit and FAQ); Transportation Update
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Southborough School Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Project Update presentation to School Committee
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and materials) Agenda Highlights: Discuss One Stop Grant/Route 9 zoning study; Public Hearings on 337 Turnpike Rd major site plan for Adult Daycare and MBTA Communities zoning; Appointments; Discuss 40B projects
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Potential participation in discussion on the MBTA Communities Overlay District/Zoning Amendment
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Meeting with Pare Engineering about Parkerville Landfill and site considerations and monitoring (joint with
Board of Health); Vote on options to send for cost estimation- Board of Health Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Neary School Building Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Neary Building Committee regarding Parkerville Landfill and Neary School site
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Neary School Building Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Neary Building Committee and Board of Health regarding Parkerville Landfill and Neary School site
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 8:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Appoint SHOPC member to be on working group to evaluate merging of AFHTC & SHOPC; Appoint SHOPC member to be on CPC
- Select Board Meeting, 9:15 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of status of Neary School project and vote on allocating $10,000 of ARPA funds for additional soil testing
- Southborough Stewardship Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room and zoom or @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Changes to membership proposed by Select Board; Update on Town Dump and implications; Encroachment follow up
Thursday, July 25, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee-Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 1:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss what needs to be accomplished to be prepared for potential vote on August 12th on project to be brought forth; Discuss financial aspects of proposed project
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list: (The videos aren’t posted on YouTube yet, but you can look for them to be posted here.)
Thursday, July 18, 2024
- Economic Development Committee Meeting,
6:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: One Stop application and proposed application for Rte 9 zoning review; Discuss current commercial zoning - Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Continued site analysis discussion and cost estimate updates; Updated planning studies of add/reno and new construction themes including feedback from school administration
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates; Mowing contract; Bench Selection; DCR work plan
Friday, July 19, 2024
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee Meeting,
2:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Appoint 2 members to Ad Hoc SHOPC/AHTFC Consolidation Committee
*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 Southborough School Committee meetings are generally broadcast live by Southborough Access Media here and on Verizon-37 and Charter-192. (Video replays are also usually made available through their YouTube channel within a couple of days.)
- 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).
- Other:
- Southborough does participate in some regional collaboratives hosted in other towns. Those committees follow their own rules and may not offer a way to re-watch zoom meetings.
