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, September 16, 2024
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Volunteer policy draft; 5 yr Strategic Plan; Follow up on Library Grounds requests; Director contract
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Recommendation for new member; Prep for Heritage Day; Brick fundraiser
- Economic Development Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Coordinator report on business relocations, zoning, Building Commissioner, and branding-promotion-recruitment; Discuss contracted services
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Neary site conditions; MSBA funding allowance update; next steps on Schematic Design Process; Design Working Group
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- Board of Health Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve agreement with Northborough for Health Agent; Greater Boroughs Update; Updated addendum for Admin; Trash Hauler Regulation; Body Works; Opioid Task Force and abatement strategic report; vaccine clinics
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Building Dept, Council on Aging/Senior Center, Neary School project, and regional dispatch center; 21 Highland Future Use Committee – Appoint Kristin LaVault as Rec. Commission rep and potential revision of charge; Revote ARPA funds for COA survey; Future Town Use of Flagg School; Review board’s goals
- Council on Aging Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Provide update to Select Board on Senior Center issues
- Southborough Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Intro to LLC toolkit for new members; Scoring mechanisms for grants and aligning scoring with survey results; Review Select Board’s recommendations
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee Meeting, 8:30 pm Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on plan to acquire property; Approval for the hiring of an assessor and inspectors
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: NSPAC Presentation; Timeline and Goals for Superintendent’s Evaluation; Calendar Advisory Working Group Update; Vote on Policy for Animals in School; Personnel Update
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on start of school year (Extended School Year program, English Language Development Dept, Transportation, Facilities, Capital Plan Projects Professional Development, Curriculum, and New Teacher Orientation); Special Ed & Civil Rights Monitoring Report; Solar Power Agreement; Enrollments; Revote FY25 Assessments; Budget Priorities; GonkPlex Update
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @
Public Safety Building Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Internal Technical Review of 6 applications for Annual Town Meeting (Refurbishment of Engine 25, Preservation of South Union School and Flagg School, Restoration of Town Common Railing & Fence Posts and Rural Cemetery Water Tower, and transfer of Community Housing funds to Affordable Housing Trust Fund); Updates on Special Town Meeting Articles (especially on CPA membership appointment and dropped Article on funding sources); Project Close-out Update
Friday, September 20, 2024
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 2:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Draft decision on Park Central 40B permit (Note: The board already voted to deny the permit. This meeting with Town Counsel is on the wording of the written decision.)
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Friday, September 13, 2024
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Approve submission of Preferred Schematic Report addendum to Mass School Building Authority
*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).
