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. 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 6, 2025
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Proposed bylaws for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) and zoning amendments for shared parking and new Industrial Park uses; 250 Turnpike Rd. 40B Status; Update on projects and On-Call Engineering Consultant (Note: the public hearings are continued to January 27th)
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Community Feedback and outreach plan; HVAC System Recommendation from Sustainability Subcommittee; Design Review Update – Exterior; Discuss Feedback from Select Board/Advisory Meeting
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Liquor License Hearing for Nan’s Market change of license; FY26 Capital; Updates on One Stop grant, Wastewater, and RECC, and Cordaville Road project; Tree Warden appointment and potential stipend increase; Vote on amended job descriptions for Highway Division of DPW; Review draft of the “State of the Town” address; Possible reorganization of Senior Center and Youth & Family Services; Appoint Trustees of Affordable Housing Trust
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting on CIPC’s FY26 Capital expense recommendations
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting to to present FY26 Capital Update and Long Range Capital Forecast
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
- MetroWest RECC District Operations Meeting, 9:00 am @
Westborough Fire Department with Remote option (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vendor presentation for Communications Equipment - MetroWest RECC District Meeting, 1:00 pm @ Forbes Municipal Building with Remote option (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Design, Executive Director Position, Operations and Committees, and contracts for Geotech Investigation, HAZMAT Testing and Remediation, and Civil Engineering; Review 911 grant; Cost of removing materials in basement
- Neary School Council Meeting, 3:15 pm @ Neary School Conference Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: School Improvement Planning; FY26 Budget Update; School Culture; Neary Building Committee update
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library (agenda with materials) Agenda Highlights: MCAS Presentation; Action Plan Progress; Transportation Bid Discussion; Neary Building Committee Update; Revote FY26-31 Capital Plan; FY26 Revised Preliminary Budget Presentation
- Neary Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Southborough School Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Project Update Presentation to Southborough School Committee
Thursday, January 9, 2025
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Irrigation Project; Effort to minimize wayward balls (3rd green, 4th tee, and 7th fairway); 1st hole cart path; Tee refurbishment; Audubon certification
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail work; Recruiting volunteer for vacancy; Closing out projects
*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.)
- 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.
