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, October 7, 2024
- Board of Health Meeting, 11:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vaccine Clinics; Body Works regulations; Trash Hauler regs process/update; Opioid Settlement Fudns; Noise Complaints; Tobacco license increase reminder
- Planning Board Meeting, 7:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Discuss wupport of Town Planner, 250 Turnpike Rd storage facility Site Plan Approval and Noise Complaint; Public Hearing on 250 Turnpike Rd Contractor’s Yard Building Site Plan Approval; Discuss tree removal at 37 Clifford Rd; Discuss follow up on Special Town Meeting, ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) zoning Legislation, MassHousing request for comments on proposed 40B at 352 Turnpike Rd
- Neary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Design Review Space with Educators; Spring Special Town Meeting; Budget update; vote on “Design, Bid, Build” or “Construction Manager at Risk” path
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Deputy Fire Chief contract vs SAP; Discuss existing employee salary structure; Tuition Reimbursement policy draft revisions
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Exec Director report
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Set dates for Neary School Special Town Meeting and Annual Town Meeting; Reallocate available ARPA funds; Discuss applying to MetroWest RECC; board goals; Review Public Safety Staffing Study
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 104 Sears Rd (more than 3 garage bays), 250 Turnpike Rd (40B), 120 Turnpike Rd (40B, shared drive, and parking variance)
- Planning Board Meeting, 7:00 pm @ ZBA Meeting (agenda not posted on website) Note: The meeting calendar lists the board as holding a meeting in the same location as the ZBA’s, but no linked agenda was included as of the writing of this post.
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ South Union School (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Dept highlights and upcoming activities; Outreach at Heritage Day; Youth Commission Vacancy
- Southborough School Committee’s Operational Budget Subcommittee Meeting, 8:00 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Budget Calendar and priorities
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Trottier Principal’s Report and School Improvement Plan; Report of Resolutions Committee; Updates on Transportation and bid, Extended Day, Neary Building Committee, Action Plan Progress, and Audit; Recommendation to rescind five PR policies (150, 160, 180, 190, & 210)
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates; Bench selection; Volunteer Recruitment for Committee vacancy; Closing out projects; DCR work plan
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss annual application and any recommended changes
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- 21 Highland Future Use Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Organize committee, review charge and determine next steps
Friday, October 4, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee – Communications Subcommittee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Public outreach plans
*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.
