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. 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, January 13, 2025
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Cordaville Hall (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on new school and possible senior center/community center changes; Changes to COA Policies and Procedures; Rebranding and renaming project timeline; Program update
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Transportation Bid Results Review and Discussion and next steps
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review potential revisions to the FY26 Salary Administration Plan; Review Town Meeting Article for salary study
- Board of Health Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Dry January; Intro new Health Agent; Greater Boroughs Update
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve HVAC Maintenance and Service contract
- Historical Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Historic sign update; oral history project and before-and-after photo scanning proposal; Updates on cemeteries, and Water Tower CPC application, and representation on committees; FY26 budget request
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Human Services Discussion; Community Needs Assessment
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Science Dept Presentation, Transportation Bid discussion; Revised preliminary FY26 budget presentation
*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.
