It’s a quiet week, but there are a few open, public Southborough committee and board meetings this week. Here’s the posted list* 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 Monday, December 16th’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, December 30, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 8:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve renewal of auto dealer license for CAC Auto at 206 Turnpike Rd (followed by closed Executive Session)
- Neary Building Committee Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve invoices
Thursday, January 2, 2024
- Neary School Building Committee – Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting, 1:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review the LCCA (Life Cycle Cost Analysis) from the HVAC engineers
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 26 Meadow Lane development and 120 Turnpike Rd 40B; Request for Certificate of Compliance for St. Mark’s School’s parking lot on Marlboro Rd; 2024 Annual Report; 250 Turnpike Rd 40B Comment Letter; Breakneck Hill Farm Dump progress
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from the week before last that were posted after I ran that week’s list:
Thursday December 19, 2024
- Southborough School Committee Operational Budget Subcommittee Meeting, 11:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY26 Preliminary Budget Discussion
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm (agenda)
*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.
