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, November 3, 2025
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Southborough Senior Center (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Upcoming programs; Marketing agenda; Updates on groups
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Tech status updates (including on DPW Cameras and license plate based passes, Meeting room tech, Open meeting management system, review of clicker tech at Town Meeting, SYFS, and RECC); 5 yr plan; 2025 satisfaction survey; FY27 phone system upgrade
- Board of Health Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on Order to Correct Sanitary Code Violations at 88 Turnpike Road
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: 10 yr capital plans for Recreation Dept and Fire Dept
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
- Regional School Committee Capital Planning Subcommittee Meeting, 4:00 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27-32 Capital Plan
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 6:15 pm @ Office of Assessors, 17 Common St (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Excise tax abatements; Approve reserve fund overlay amount to be raised on FY26 Recap; review comments re tax classification hearing; join Select Board Meeting (below) to hold annual Tax Classification Hearing
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Auto Sales License Hearings (Pratts at 355 Turnpike Rd & Venture at 145 Boston Rd); FY26 Tax Classification Hearing; One Stop grant announcement; Discuss Special Town Meeting and next steps, including on Town Government Structure Committee/independent consultant; Review of FY26 Board goals; Update on Dept of Revenue financial policies review
- Youth Commission Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Commission vacancy; Dept highlights; Community Needs Assessment by Southborough Youth and Family & Trendline
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
- BOC of Trust Funds Meeting, 8:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on applicant; Annual COA & Youth/Family Assistance
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, October 30, 2025
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail project updates; National Grid Project and impacts on trails; Trail maintenance update
*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.
