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, October 6, 2025
- Joint Meeting of Southborough School Committee’s Operational Budget & Capital Subcommittees, 7:00 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on GonkPlex bonding, FY25 (End of Year Report and E & D), FY27 (Budget Planning & Priorities, and Capital Plan)
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Trails Update; Updates on Dept, programs, & Field/Playground Repairs; Vote on Capital; Discuss Fayville CPC Project; Fayville Hall Parking; Heritage Day; Trunk or Treat; Fall Registration
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Facilities Dept. Capital Presentation; PreK-8 School Building Committee Update; FY26 Capital Timeline and Update; Elect officers
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
- Board of Health Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Variance Request for 25 Park Street; FY27 Budget
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Atwood Rd parcel restoration; PreK-8 School Building Committee’s presentation of report; MWRTA/MBTA I-495 Connector service; MWRC public communications pilot project; One Stop grant award; Authorize MassDOT to install stone caps on Main Street; Approve Special Town Meeting Warrant; Approve Golf Course Irrigation project bid; Discuss date for Annual Town Meeting
- PreK-8 School Building Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Attend Select Board Meeting for discussion on final report and matrix
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of Tech related articles in Fall Town Meeting; Transfer Station video monitoring of bins & License plate-based passes; Meeting Room Technology; Open Meeting Management System; Tech for SYFS and RECC; Tech trends that will impact Southborough; 2025 satisfaction survey
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video should get posted here) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail project updates; Trail maintenance; Oct 4th Workday recap
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 4:30 pm @ Marguerite E. Peaslee Elementary School (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Tours of Northborough’s Peaslee and Lincoln Street elementary schools
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Library (agenda and materials) Agenda Highlights: Elementary Schools’ School Improvement Plan; Updates on Southborough Extended Day Program, Food Services, and School Resource Officer Position; Report of the Resolutions Committee; Assabet Valley Collaborative Transportation Information; PreK-8 School Building Committee Update; Finn and Neary Hazardous Building Materials Surveys Final Reports; Budgets & Expenses
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss financial disbursements and protocol; Review Ice Cream event; Finalize plans for 2025 Heritage Day; Updates on working groups and fundraisers
Thursday, October 9, 2025
- Select Board Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Forum with Atlantic Management Presentation to public on proposed Costco project at 21 Coslin Drive and related Zoning Article for Special Town Meeting
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- MetroWest Regional Transit Authority Meeting, 9:30 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: AECOM Comprehensive Regional Transit Plan Update; Approve Engineering Design Services Selection for Blandin Hub Operations & Maintenance Facility Expansion; Approve Agency Title VI Program; Approve MWRTA Revised FY26 Operating Budget
Thursday, October 2, 2025
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video should get posted here) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail project updates; Trail maintenance; Oct 4th Workday (relocate wood and final Bench placement)
*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.
