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, January 27, 2025
- Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on disposition of approved Council on Aging request; Discuss annual report; annual assistance request for Community Fund/Southborough Emergency Fund
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: [Note: Hearings for 2 East Main St & 26 Meadow Lane will be continued again] Public Hearing on ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) bylaws & regs, Zoning Amendments for Shared Parking, and 250 Turnpike Rd for site plan approval; Application for 9 Wyndemere Dr to be split into 2 lots; Minor Site Plan for Valvoline Instant Oil Change at 361 Turnpike Rd; 132 Turnpike Rd sign application; Discuss proposed revisions to Industrial Park zoning uses; 250 Turnpike Rd. 40B Status-Planning Board comments to ZBA
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attend Planning’s hearings on ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) bylaws & regs, Zoning Amendments for Shared Parking; Discus proposed Zoning Amendments for Industrial Park (IP) District Uses
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Recreation office (agend and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on programs, events, Dog Park, Field/Playground Repair (Choate Turf & Park Capital Fund); Fayville Hall parking; RAP Monitor & Camp Counselor pay scale adjustment request; Director hiring authority; Refund policy
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- MetroWest RECC Governing Board Meeting, 9:30 am @ Westborough Fire Dept (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on facility (including design, grant, and milestones); National Grid Work Order; Grant Amendment and Application Updates; Executive Director Position; lease; Joint Meeting with operations committee
- MetroWest RECC Operations Committee Meeting,10:30 am @ joint meeting with MetroWest RECC Governing Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Equipment and Policy/Procedure; Discuss Facility Critical Operations Power Systems and Ballistic Rating
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, January 23, 2025
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on entering HVAC maintenance contract
- Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of AHT Mission Statement and Draft Response to CPC Request for Additional Information on AHT CPC
Application
Friday, January 24, 2025
- Neary Building Committee Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 1:00 pm (agenda, look here for video to be posted) Agenda Highlights: Discuss plan for next meeting
*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.
