The week in government (Updated)

Select Board on Town Meeting Warrant, Planning Working Session on MBTA Zoning Maps, Conservation Commission Hearings, Budget talks and more

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.)**

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

  • Recreation Commission Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve part time employee
  • Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on EDC and Fire Chief Search; Discuss Annual Town Meeting Warrant & potential Article to require super-majority vote for CPA funds to be used for improvements to private property; Naming of St. Mark’s Street Park; contracting to investigate potential contamination of Atwood St parcel; GonkPlex funding agreement

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

  • Planning Board Meeting, 1:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Working session to discuss members’ proposals for MBTA Communities zoning districts
  • Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 7:45 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review requests for Phone System Upgrade, Record Retention, and Field Maintenance; Vote on all FY25 Capital Request recommendations and presentation to Select Board & Advisory

Thursday, January 4, 2024

  • Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Southborough Golf Club drainage and path improvements, 30 Presidential Dr invasive plant management, and 20 Sears Rd replacing stream pipe with naturalized channel; Discuss mitigation for 90 & 38 Deerfoot Rd violations, comments for ZBA on Park Central & 120 Turnpike 40Bs, and 84 Main St restrictive covenants
  • Master Plan Implementation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm@ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss January report to Planning Board and member updates

Friday, January 5, 2024

  • Council on Aging Meeting, 11:30 am @ Cordaville Hall, 9 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on marketing materials; Select Board update; Age & dementia friendly initiatives; next steps on proposal for town assessment

Saturday, January 6, 2024

  • Joint Select Board & Advisory Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Training Room, 32 Cordaville Road (agenda not yet posted) Agenda Highlights: Planned meeting to discuss FY25 budgets, especially Capital expenses, IT, Police, Fire, DPW, and Schools
  • Capital Improvement & Planning Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Select Board & Advisory Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Present committee’s recommendations for FY25 Capital Expenses to Select Board and Advisory

*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-38 and Charter-194).

Updated (1/2/24 5:23 pm): I recalled that the Select Board and Advisory are scheduled to hold their special meeting on budgets this weekend. So I added that and the three agendas posted since this morning, including CIPC’s participation in the Saturday meeting.

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Jeff Rudd
9 months ago

Why does the planning board keep having meetings in the afternoon on a workday? No other board does this. Do they not want public input anymore.

Jeff Rudd
9 months ago

Ok Beth. I will just never comment on anything again. Apparently whatever I have to say is wrong in your mind. Way to run a blog.

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