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.)**
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 12:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY26 Budget draft; Library Construction Grant Application Update; Safe Child Policy; Library Director Contract
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Monthly excise tax abatements; Update on cyclical inspections
- Municipal Technology Committee (MTC) Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Technology status updates; Potential upcoming surveys
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Appointments to Affordable Housing Trust and Southborough Housing Authority; Updates to Financial Policies; Appoint Tree Warden; Draft of the “State of the Town” address; Update on wastewater options for Southborough; Possible creation of a Cemetery Commission; Consider appointment to vacant Community Preservation Committee seat; Draft Warrant Annual Town Meeting
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Report to Select Board
- Southborough Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Grant disbursements and plan reception
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Board of Health Meeting, 12:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss potential Route 9 Wastewater Treatment Plan
- 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
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and padket; 250 Turnpike Rd materials) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on revising Comprehensive Permit Rules & Regulations for 40B applications and 250 Turnpike Road 40B permit
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 10 Dairy Farm Ln replace existing patio, 12 Wood St replace septic, 26 Meadow Ln Flexible Development, 120 Turnpike Rd construction of a 60 unit apt building; Chestnut Hill Farm updates, Conservation process; Pending requests; Farm Dump progress
Saturday, January 25, 2025
- Select Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Building (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Review of FY26 Budgets for fire dept, DPW, and Police
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- Select Board Meeting, 8:30 am (agenda, video not yet posted) Agenda Highlights: text
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
Thursday, January 16, 2025
- Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: text
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
Friday, January 17, 2025
- Neary School Building Committee – Communications Subcommittee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: text
*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:
- 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).
