Since Monday is a holiday, I’m giving readers the advance heads up on the meeting today. Read the full article → from Board of Selectmen to address next year’s budget, Town Meeting priorities, and EDC’s request
Tomorrow night, the Regional School Committee will hold a meeting in Algonquin’s library at 7:00 pm. First on the agenda is a public hearing on the recommended budget for FY21. Read the full article → from School FY21 budgets: Regional budget hearing Wed night; overview of K-12 costs for Southborough
Tuesday night the Board of Selectmen and the Advisory Committee agreed to hold a Special Town Meeting in the fall on several Capital Expense items. References were also made to using the meeting for a planned zoning Article on the Downtown Business Village. Read the full article → from Fall Special Town Meeting will be held for capital expenses and downtown Zoning
This winter, the Town’s Finance team and the Board of Selectmen have been hashing out the Fiscal Year 2021 budget to bring to Annual Town Meeting voters. One option recently floated was tabling some capital spending to a Special Town Meeting in the fall. In the meantime, a committee would better research the Town’s anticipated capital expenses and how to handle them. Read the full article → from Town Meeting Update: Officials grappling with budget demands, may table some expenses to a Fall Special
My Southborough accepts signed letters to the editor submitted by Southborough residents. Letters may be emailed to mysouthborough@gmail.com. Read the full article → from Letter: Rebutting Assessors’ Tax recommendation
The Board of Selectmen posted its agenda for Tuesday night. With two items that some readers care passionately about listed, I’m giving you an advance heads up. Read the full article → from BOS to discuss Tax Classification and Fayville Hall Disposition on Tuesday
According to the Town Treasurer, Articles Southborough voters will be asked to support could trigger up to a 4.5% increase in taxes. Read the full article → from Annual Town Meeting Update: Voters will be asked to approve 3.82% to 4.5% tax increase (Updated)
My Southborough accepts signed letters to the editor submitted by Southborough residents. Letters may be emailed to mysouthborough@gmail.com. Read the full article → from Letter: Carl Guyer readressing tax rates
The board again approved a single tax rate for FY16.
The rate is a decrease from $16.02 to $15.82 per thousand (about 1.26%). However, assessors estimate that (excluding the Community Preservation surcharge) the average family’s bill will go up by 1.97% (or $176). Read the full article → from Single tax rate approved: Rate reduced but your bill may be a little higher
On Tuesday night, the Board of Selectmen got another update on the FY16 budgets. It was a more positive outlook than they were given in December. Read the full article → from More on Southborough’s preliminary budgets – Town and K-8
There were no major controversies at Monday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting. But there were a lot of interesting tidbits including roadblocks to re-turfing a town field and discussion of a public records request policy. Read the full article → from BOS meeting recap: 9-11 Field roadblocks, public records policy, taxes and more (Updated)
A list of board and committee meetings for the week. Read the full article → from The week in government (11/3-11/9/14): BOS at Senior Center tonight, tax classification hearing
Last night voters wrapped up 2014 Annual Town Meeting business. It’s not a surprise that emotions were running high on the night that several citizen petitions were addressed. Still, which articles sparked controversy may be a surprise to some of you. Read the full article → from Town Meeting wrap up: Main St committee petition loses by 3 votes, Gulbankians zoning passes and residents nix moves towards Town Manager (Updated)
These events won’t be listed in the government meetings for the week – because they aren’t town open government meetings. But they don’t quite fit in with legos and sing-a-longs either! Read the full article → from Special meetings on warrant articles: Split tax-rate, Main Street, and FEMA maps