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, October 15, 2024
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Monthly excise tax abatements; vote on Principal Assessors request to transfer funds from overlay reserve to overlay surplus; Review Tax Classification Hearing presentation
- Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Bills and Exec Director report
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Debriefs from Heritage Day and Special Town Meeting (Assessor software update and RECC tech); Upcoming budget cycle; Town and Dept tech updates; Town Meeting room tech
- Regional School Committee’s Operational Budget Subcommittee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Develop FY26 Budget Priorities
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda and materials) Agenda Highlights: Update on Ballot Question (MCAS graduation requirement); Report of Resolutions Committee; Transportation Bid; School Improvement Plan Presentation; FY26 Budget Priorities; Solar Update (Revote Power Purchase Agreement and Lease Agreement)
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review applications for 2025 Annual Town Meeting
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds Meeting, 3:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss possible assistance Trust can give Cemetery; Update on expenses and funds
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Trottier Middle School Auditorium (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Presentation by independent auditor on audit of Neary incident investigation
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Heritage Day prep, and updates on brick fundraiser and fundraising
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 11:45 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: 118/120 Turnpike Road 40b Review, Heritage Day Plans, Golf Course Audubon International Management Plan, Invasive Project, Chapter 61 Johnson Land Right of First Refusal, NGrid tree hearings snags, and planning for Winter sow program
*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).
