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, August 12, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda and packet, video) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Special Town Meeting Warrant Article for Salary Admin Plan changes; Review analysist of longevity payments; Discuss existing employee salary structure
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Financial Cost Presentation; Deliberate and vote on preferred design to put forth to Mass School Building Authority
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Neary Building Committee Meeting (agenda)
- Neary School Building Committee – Communications Subcommittee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve communications based on any votes of the Neary Building Committee
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee Meeting, 10:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Application for transferring Community Housing Funds from Community Preservation Act Funds; Discuss merger with SHOPC; Reorganize committee
- Board of Health Meeting, 10:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Reappoint Tobacco Control Manager; Review Draft agreement with Town of Northborough for Health Agent; Oct 16 Flu Clinic
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Dept highlights; Updates on budgets and ARPA funds; Strategic Plan Progress Report; Fall Town Meeting – Additional salary/mileage funds
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Trails, Capital, Neary School Building, 21 Highland St committee, and Dog Park; Cross Country Coach; CPC Rep and Projects; Field use for refugee families; Fayville parking
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Deliberation and vote on preferred schematic design to put forth to MSBA (if vote not taken on 8/12/24)
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, August 8, 2024
- Economic Development Committee Meeting,
6:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review EDC tracker; Coordinator report on business relocations and incoming businesses; One Stop grant applications for downtown Wayfinding project and Route 9 Zoning - Community Preservation Committee Meeting,
7:00 pm (agenda, look here for video) Agenda Highlights: CPC Bylaw Citizen Petition Next Steps; 2024 Project Updates; Closing out Projects; Discuss Select Board proposal to adopt changes to CPC funding; Annual report to Dept of Revenue
Friday, August 9, 2024
- Affordable Housing Consolidation Working Group Meeting, 12:00 pm (agenda, look here for video) Agenda Highlights: Draft Article to Consolidate the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee and the Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee
- Neary School Building Committee – Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 1:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Discuss financial aspects for Neary project design scenarios and impacts on Town Budget and taxes
*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.
