Tonight is the biggest meeting of the week — Annual Town Meeting. But it’s hardly the only one.
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, April 7, 2025
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Cordaville Hall (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on recruiting for Program Manager and transitional staffing; Budget Update; Spring programming; Timing updates on Rebranding and renaming project, and changes to polices and procedures
- Town Meeting Preparation Meetings @ Trottier Middle School
- Planning Board Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Room 101 (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public hearings on Articles 28-30 on Town Meeting Warrant to amend zoning bylaws for ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) and Shared Parking
- Select Board Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Room 103 (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Open Warrant for May 10 Special Town Meeting; Vote on support for Neary School proposed project; prep for Annual Town Meeting
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Room 124 (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Prep for Annual Town Meeting
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 6:15 pm @ Room 131 (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss CPA Articles (24-27) on Town Meeting Warrant; Vote on Halloran Bond Funds Disposition
- Annual Town Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School auditorium (Warrant, additional materials and information) Agenda Highlights: All registered Southborough voters are invited to discuss and directly vote on Articles in the Warrant that cover items including the Town’s annual budgets, spending, borrowing, administrative authorities for entering contracts, and changes to the Town’s bylaws. (Read more in my coverage here.)
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 10:00 am @ Woodward School Cafeteria (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public presentation with Q&A will focus on educational benefits and schematic design of proposed new school for grades 2-5
- Board of Health Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on 2 East Main St building project
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss new schedule for monthly meetings
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on request to Personnel Board; review nominations for Wellness Award and applications for scholarship; Updates from Youth & Family Services Director and Friends group
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public hearing on School Choice (and vote); Mathematics K-8 update; ARHS Competency Determination; Neary Building Committee Update including discussing and voting on 5th Grade at Trottier Middle School
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Follow up on Town Meeting vote on Article to transfer CPA funds; Discuss Housing Production plan expiring in July; Habitat For Humanity Presentation; Discuss potential affordable housing strategies and parcels that could be acquired
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Trottier School Auditorium (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public presentation with Q&A will focus on educational benefits and schematic design of proposed new school for grades 2-5
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 38 Sears Rd (pool & lawn reconstruction), 48 Main St (addition), 26 Meadow Lane (flexible housing development), and 120 Turnpike Rd (60 unit apartment); Emergency certification of Water Main at Lynbrook & Route 30; Chestnut Hill Farm Updates; Breakneck Hill Farm Dump restoration plan; Discuss vacancy for rep on Community Preservation Committee
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 8:00 pm @ Conservation Commission Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attend Conservation Commission’s meeting
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- 21 Highland Future Use Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Create handout for Town Meeting; Discuss timeline and format for Building Tour and Public Forum
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Scholarship Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Vote on new scholarship in memory of Stefanie Cappello
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Meeting Warrant Review; Breakneck Hill Farm Dump restoration next steps; Earth Day; Town Forest; and volunteer inquiry
- Historical Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Revolutionary War Veterans’ graves marker planning and Spring/summer goals (Demolition Delay Bylaw revisions, oral history project, Boston & Worcester Street Railway sign)
Saturday, April 5, 2025
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Participate in Financial Subcommittee’s public forum
*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.
