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, June 9, 2025
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Director’s Report; Diaper Donation Drive; Library Director Evaluation & Contract
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 2:00 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School’s Career Resource Center (agenda, finalist info) Agenda Highlights: Participation in the site visit of the finalist for NSBORO Schools’ Director of Students Support Services (Includes “Meet & Greet” sessions – 2:00 – 2:45 pm with NSPAC, and 4:00 – 4:45 pm with Community)
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve Plan for FY26 for State-Aided Public Housing
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Course Improvement Projects (irrigation, 1st hole cart path paving, efforts to mimimize wayward balls, tee refurbishment, Hole 3 “lookout tower”); Audubon certification
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Employee Transition Report; Approve FY26 pay rates
- Municipal Technology Committee (MTC) Meeting, 6:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Strategic tech plan, road map, and top objectives; surveys
- Southborough Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Officer elections
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
- Board of Health Meeting, 12:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Elect officers; Re-Appoint Tobacco Control Program Manager; Body Works Regs; Update on Food Establishments; Public Health Director’s Review; Sanitary Inspector’s Contract
- Select Board Meeting, 5:00 pm @ Public Safety Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Goal Setting session for FY26 [The agenda was updated to remove the zoom option.]
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Transportation planning and bus contractor accountability; Final presentation on ’24-’25 Action Plan; Environmental Conditions Review and Assessment; Grade Configuration and Facilities Plan; Neary Building Committee next steps; Trottier Roof Update; Enrollments; Discuss proposed policy revisions (Bullying Prevention & Intervention, Civil Rights Nondiscrimination, Sexual Harassment, Animals on During School Hours, and Religious Observance); newly added to agenda were Review of Select Board Ad-Hoc Charge: PreK to 8 School Research Committee, and School Safety – Finn Pickleball Courts
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss revised application; Open projects and next steps; signage to complete projects; June 18th public forum
Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on confirming resource area boundaries of right of ways for MBTA Commuter Rail and CSX Railway, notice of intent for sidewalks on Woodland & Richards roads, and permit for 26 Meadow Lane development; Discuss potential amended Order of Conditions for 250 Turnpike Rd; Enforcement Order for 98 Southville Rd; Request for Certificate of Compliance for 17 Red Gate Ln; Chestnut Hill Farm Updates; Breakneck Hill – Farm Dump progress and Restoration Plan; Open Community Preservation Seat
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, June 5, 2025
- Southborough Trails Committee Meeting,
7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail next steps; Budget; Bench location
*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).
Updated (6/9/25 1:31 pm): The School Committee agenda was updated to include more items. And I realized the Select Board meeting’s agenda was updated to remove the zoom option.
