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, September 9, 2024
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:45 am @ Public Safety Complex and zoom (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Employee Transition Report; Board’s Article for Special Town Meeting; Existing Employee Salary and survey of actual rates; Vacation request for Civil Engineer; Continuation of Building Dept expanded hours for ZBA
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda, MBTA Zoning materials) Agenda Highlights: Proposed Zoning Changes; Discuss 40Bs at 120 & 250 Turnpike Rd and Park Central; Hearing on MBTA Communities Overlay District/Zoning Amendment; Hearing on major site plan for Contractor’s Yard Building at 250 Turnpike Rd; Discuss 10 Turnpike Road (Storage Facility)
- Select Board Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting on MBTA Communities Zoning Bylaw Article
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint Meeting with Select Board & Planning Board on MBTA Communities Zoning Bylaw Article
- Southborough Housing Opportunity Partnership Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Participate in MBTA zoning hearing
- Select Board Meeting, 7:15 pm @ Town Administrator Office (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Final review of Special Town Meeting Warrant Articles and vote on board’s positions
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Southborough Golf Clubhouse (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Continued effort to minimize wayward balls
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town website prioritization; wifi revamp; tech related to employee training; Town Meeting room tech; AI based Note taking for meetings; Assessor software update; 5 yr plan; Prep for fall Town Meeting
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Dog Park Update, Recap of Summer program and Summer Nights; Community Preservation Committee; Capital; Updates on Fall registration and Fayville parking
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Director’s Report; outreach at Heritage Day; Friends update; in person meetings
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- Neary Building Committee Finance Subcommittee Meeting, 1:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Financial aspects of proposed building project including estimated costs (and impacts for Town budget and property taxes)
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting with Select Board to vote on new member (see below); Updates on start of school year (Extended School Year program, English Language Development Dept, Professional Development, Curriculum, and New Teacher Orientation); Special Ed & Civil Rights Monitoring Report; Action Plan Progress; Audit status; U.S. Dept of Ed Office for Civil Rights Complaint; Transportation Update; Neary Building Committee Update; FY26 budget priorities
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ School Committee Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting with School Committee to interview candidates and vote on interim School Committee member to fill vacant seat (until May 2025 Town election) (Candidates are Yan Leigh, Kamaili, O’Meally, and Kevin Robins)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on applicability/delineation areas (for 42 Wildwood Dr, 66 Oak Hill Rd, and 25 Park St) and Notice of Intent (for 116 Main St garage addition & septic, Central Street retaining wall and road drainage improvements, 27 Pine Hill Road pool & patio, 20 & 22 Turnpike Rd restoration of buffer zone activities, and 120 Turnpike Rd 60-unit apartment building); 2 East Main – expired OOC & storage of millings; 34 Sears Road – Enforcement Order & violations; BHCL Farm Dump (change in access road); Request for support for CPC Citizen’s Petition
*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.)
