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.)**
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Superintendent Workshop — Presentation by Mass Assoc. of School Committees on School Committee roles and responsibilities; Strategic Planning for “Vision 2032”
Thursday, September 25, 2025
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Impact of announced project for Dell/EMC property on Committee’s work; Financing options, including the District Improvement Financing (“DIF”) and betterment fees; other town experience with construction and financing; potential sites for plant and discharge; potential additional users for Route 9 wastewater capacity; Plans and worksteps
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, September 18
- Master Plan Implementation Committee Meeting, am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Reorganization of the board; discuss transition of goal tracking to town website
Friday, September 19, 2025
- Select Board Meeting, 8:30 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Letter of support for Special Town Meeting Article 1; approved employment agreement for Building Commissioner (Mark Robidoux)
*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 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).
