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.)**
Not on the list below, but relevant to this topic, the Select Board welcomes the public to chat at its monthly office hours (really an hour) tomorrow evening (Tuesday, July 8th) from 6:00 – 7:00 pm. A link was posted this morning for allowing hybrid participation. (Read more here.)
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Status of irrigation and 1st hole cart path; work to minimize wayward balls (fencing, trees, and signage); Tee refurbishment; Audubon certification
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Directors report; Staff Salary adjustments; Outreach opportunities
Thursday, July 10, 2025
- Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Housing Production Plan; potential strategies for affordable housing; and potential parcels for acquisition
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 36 Cordaville Rd (Southborough Golf Club underground irrigation system), 3 Bridge Street (replacing failed septic), and MBTA Commuter Rail Right of Way resource area boundaries; Discussions/Decisions on Certificates of Compliance for 17 Red Gate Ln & 77 Deerfoot Rd, 98 Southville Rd (enforcement order), 250 Turnpike Rd (enforcement order, administrative amendment, and 40B update), MBTA Dam/Mill Pond; Updates on Chestnut Hill Farm and Breakneck Hill Farm restoration
*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.
Updated (7/7/25 11:47 am): The Select Board Office Hours promo was updated to add a zoom option to participate.
