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, August 5, 2024
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Public Safety Facility Training Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review discussion on charge; Review plans for 120 Turnpike Rd; Review interpretive sign
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Finalize Vision Action Plan and FAQ; Vote on amended 5 yr capital plan; Neary Building Project Preferred Schematic Design; Warrant Articles from 1998 re school committee parcels; New member mentoring; and Transportation Update
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
- Select Board Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: (following a closed Exec session) Public Hearing on Transfer Station Regs; Updates from Cultural Arts Council and Historical Commission; Updates on Regional Disptach, One Stop grant application for Rt 9 zoning, and staffing study; Approve American Tower public safety communication agreement; Article order on Special Town Meeting Warrant; Consider Article to allow use of other municipal funds to supplement CPA funds; Overview of proposed 68 unit 40B at 352 Turnpike Road
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, August 1, 2024
- Master Plan Implementation Committee Meeting, 5:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Updates, goal tracking and progress reports
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates; bench selection, volunteer recruitment, and closing out projects
Friday, August 2, 2024
- Affordable Housing Consolidation Working Group Meeting, 10:00 am (agenda, look here for video) Agenda Highlights: Draft Article to consolidate the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee and the Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee; elect officers
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting,
3:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on 118/120 Turnpike Road 40b Review, Chestnut Hill Farm Management Plan, Chapter 61 Johnson Land Right of First Refusal, Programs, CPC Golf Course management plan and invasive project, Master Plan and OSRP Review, Seed Distribution & Winter Sow Program Status, and Halloran Property Access
*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.
