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 28, 2024
- 21 Highland Future Use Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Recreation Dept, Room 2 (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Organize committee, Review charge and next steps, and discussion with Facilities Director
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Cordaville Hall (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Town Forest, Community Gardens, Boardwalk repair, Farm Dump, and 120 Turnpike Rd development project
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- Regional School Committee’s Capital Planning Subcommittee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss current 5 yr capital plan and draft the plan through FY30
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda, related documents) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on permits for 120 Turnpike Rd for 60 unit 40B development (focus on building height and peer review) and use of shared driveway
Thursday, October 31, 2024
- SHOPC (Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee) Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve meeting minutes
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Review Applications for 2025 ATM — Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee, Engine 25 Historic Preservation, Town Common Railing and Fence Post Historic Preservation, and Rural Cemetery Water Tower Historic Preservation
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail project, DCR Trails conference, DCR agreement work plan
*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).
