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, July 14, 2025
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 7:45 am @ webinar only (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Vote to sell $7.5M in bond notes (financing for GonkPlex project)
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Library Director Contract; Drip Irrigation System
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens Community Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: CPC Funds discussion; approval of Fair Housing Marketing Plan, Language Access Plan, and Reasonable Accommodation/Modification Policy
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom or @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Housing Production Plan (HPP); Updates on Atlantic Management Corp (and request for potential bylaw update), Subdivision Rules and Regs; Discuss Proposed Bylaw Changes (ADU, Industrial Park District Uses, Environmental Controls, and Scenic Road Bylaw & Tree Handbook); Application to split 38 Turnpike Rd lots; Discuss 71 Mt. Vickery Accessory Apartment (application for ZBA permit); Public Hearings on site plans/permits/change of use for 118 Turnpike Rd (the Back Nine, Suite 4), 10 Turnpike Rd (Storage Facility – Likely to be continued), 250 Turnpike Rd (Contractor’s Yard Bldg); 26 Meadow Lane (Reservoir Meadows development), 2 East Main St (Multi-Family Bldg – Likely to be continued); Updates on Staff Performance Evaluations, OSPC’s Native Plant Recommendations, Map Link initiative, and Zoning Map Update
- Board of Trustees of the AHT Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Presentation and discussion of the Housing Production Plan
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Planning Board Meeting Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Joint meeting with Planning and AHT (Housing Production Plan discussion)
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
- Board of Health Meeting, 8:00 am @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on Bodyworks Regulations; Discuss Mislabeling of Tobacco Products & Tobacco Regulations; Health Director goals; Follow-up for Main Street Water Table
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom or @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Refer Atlantic Management’s proposed Zoning Bylaw to Planning Board; Joint Meeting with Advisory Committee on FY25 interdepartmental and/or Reserve Fund transfers; Building Dept Discussion; Wastewater Update (SVT response); Appoint Senior Center Outreach Coordinator; Reconsider Fall Special Town Meeting date (move from November 3 to October 27th); Approve Neary survey
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Intro new member and discussion with Town Moderator; Advisory rep to Pre-K To 8 School Building Committee
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ 21 Highland Street (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Programs, Repairs (aerating and top dressing at Kallander, Depietri, Trottier, & Choate fields and branch removal at Fayville), 21 Highland Street Committee, Capital/CPC Discussion, Trottier Track Accessibility Completion, Fayville Hall parking, and Professional Development
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
- Personnel Board Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Building Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve request to set vacation accrual rate for Senior Center Program Manager and Outreach coordinator; Memo to Select Board re: proposals related to FY26
compensation of employees under the SAP - Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Reflections on Tricentennial celebratory events and status of working groups; Updates on fundraising and promoting newsletter; Community event calendar
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discussion with Town Counsel regarding Grant Agreements/Letter of Expectations; Update/Request from Trails Committee on open projects; 5-year plan; Consultant Contract Renewal; Updates on Select Board goal of CPC Funding and Preservation Restriction of the Town House and Library
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet, additional application materials) Agenda Highlights: 250 Turnpike Road 40B Permit for 32 townhouse development
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
- Historical Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Appoint CPC rep; Historic House sign applications; Updates on Letter of support for branding and wayfinding One Stop grant, 21 Highland Future Use Committee expiration, Boston and Worcester railway sign, Common fencing, Rural Cemetery water tower, Revolutionary War Veterans’ unmarked graves project, Fitzgerald’s Store/Cordaville Company Store tour, Tricentennial Committee, and CPC
*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:
- 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).