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 10, 2025
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Approve Salary Admin Plan changes; review amendment to chapt 31 of Town Code; prep for Town Meeting
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on zoning Articles for Proposed Accessory Dwelling Units and Shared Parking; Hearings on permits and site plans for 250 Turnpike Rd (Contractor’s Yard Bldg, 200 Turnpike Rd. (Contr. Facility), 26 Meadow Ln (Reservoir Meadows); Discuss Mixed‐Use Development Definition, Site plan approval for 361 Turnpike Rd (Valvoline); 264 Cordaville Rd. Sign Application; Open Space Monitoring Report FY24; 250 Turnpike Rd 40B Status
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of FY26 Capital Articles and Golf Course Capital Request
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- MetroWest RECC Meeting, 9:30 am @ Westborough Fire Dept (agenda)
- Board of Health Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: 2 East Main St project; MMA Innovations Award; Body Works regs; Town Meeting; Bird Flu update
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 1:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Course improvement planning including irrigation and minimizing wayward balls
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve excise tax abatements, senior tax work off amount, and supplemental tax commitment for personal property
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 6:45 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review and Possible Vote on CPC Warrant Articles Language; Transfer Halloran Property Bond funds; Approve Online AI Service for Minutes
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Financials Review
- Scholarship Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Public Safety Meeting Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Fundraising; scholarship timeline and criteria
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Advisory Committee to discuss Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles (and positions) and FY26 Budget; Appoint Building Dept Business Admin
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Select Board to discuss Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles (and positions) and FY26 Budget
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss FY26 Budget with Select Board
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attend Select Board Meeting
- Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust (AHT) Meeting, pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss CPC application; Housing Production Plan and Consultant RFP
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Neary Building Committee – Communications Subcommittee Meeting,
9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Communication plan update; Review & release FAQs - Combined School Committees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Superintendent evaluation process; Vote on 2025-26 school calendar; Approve Transportation contract; First reading on several policies (on bullying, civil rights, sexual harassment, animals on premises, religious observance, and international field trips); Assabet Valley Collaborative audit report
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: School Choice Discussion; Updates on projects for Neary Building and Trottier roof; Amended FY26 Budget; Warrant Articles for Town Meeting; vote on Transportation
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on FY26 Budget
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Revised Applications and Warrant Articles Review (Affordable Housing Trust Fund Committee: Transfer Funds, Town Common Railing and Fence Post Restoration Project, Engine 25 Refurbishment, Annual Debt Service, and Annual CPA Budget)
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Trottier School Council Meeting, 2:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: School culture update; World Language; El Curriculum; Transition Season
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings 48 Main St building construction, 12 Wood St septic, 26 Meadow Ln flexible development, 120 Turnpike Rd 40B apartment building; Amendment of 200 Turnpike Rd permit and conditions; 2 East Main St permit extension; Updates on Chestnut Hill Farm and Breakneck Hill Farm Dump
Friday, March 7, 2025
- Neary Building Committee Communications Subcommittee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Communication plan update; Review & release FAQs
*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.
