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 26, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 8:00 am @ zoom only (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Approval of Preferred Schematic Report Submission to MSBA
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Cordaville Hall (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Senior Center programs, Volunteer Coordinator, Dedication of addition; Senior Center Name Change; New Room Review
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Superintendent Workshop on Leadership
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:00 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Sign papers and reports for excise and sales taxes; vote on request to transfer overlay reserve funds and Town Meeting Articles to be funded from reserve funds
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Cable services; Interview applicant for Tricentennial Committee; Public Forum on Regional Dispatch Services; Consider increasing EDC Coordinator hours; Revised Stewardship Committee charge; Articles for Special Town Meeting; Updates on Neary Building Committee and 40B projects; ARPA funding request for Fire Dept; Approve Affordable Housing Trust Funds’ application to transfer funds from CPA
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, August 22, 2024
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee Meeting, 3:00 pm (agenda, look here for video to be posted) Agenda Highlights: Review and approval of application for CPA funding
*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.
