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, March 17, 2025
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Elect Officers; Vote on Annual Town Meeting CPA Articles (FY26 financials and FY25 Adjustments; Historic Town Common Railing and Fence Posts; Affordable Housing Trust Fund; Historic Fire Truck Restoration); Vote on Transfer of Halloran Property Bond Funds
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss public outreach
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
- Metrowest RECC District Meeting, 9:30 am @ Westborough Fire Dept (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Facility status including Geotechnical Report; Memo of Understanding for Mass Save High Performance Buildings; State 911 grant funding; Governance Updates
- Metrowest RECC District Operations Committee Meeting, 9:30 am (following District Meeting) @ Westborough Fire Dept (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Tour of West Springfield Police Dept; Equipment Updates; Operational Goals; Communications plan
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Appoint Police Officer; Update on recruiting Directors for Council on Aging and RECC; Review Articles and sign Warrant for Annual Town Meeting on April 7th
- Southborough Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Cordaville Hall (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Artist Spotlight – Curtain Up Theater; Grant Reception Planning
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Donation Account Expense Request for Pocketalk; Updates by Youth & Family Services and Friends of Youth Commission
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:00 pm @ Southborough Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss applications received
- Regional School Committee Meeting, am @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Presentations on World Languages Dept and Career Exploration & Innovation; School Choice; Vote on FY26 Budget; Prepare Warrant Articles for Town Meeting
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet, hearing materials for 250 Turnpike) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on 6 Lorenzo Dr (additional garage bays), 264 Cordaville Rd (replacing sign on lot with existing non-conforming use), 2 Park Central Dr (permit to add use of Clinic or medical testing lab), 250 Turnpike Road (40B for 32 town homes)
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 10:00 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Safe Child Policy; Library Director Contract & Evaluation; Town Meeting Handout and presentation; Library Staff Appreciation Week
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Organize committee; Expression of Interest for state’s One Stop grant application; Waste Water System Requirements and Sites
*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 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.
