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, January 5, 2026
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 6:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Capital Requests (and prioritization) for Annual Town Meeting
- Historical Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review 173 Southville Road home and 15 Lyman Street garage to determine they are architecturally and/or historically significant under the Demolition Delay Bylaw; Items from Flagg School cleanout; Update on Rural Cemetery Water Tower project
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
- Regional School Committee’s Operational Budget Subcommittee Meeting, 4:00 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Revised preliminary FY27 Budget
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 6:00 pm @ 21 Highland St (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Field/Playground Repair Capital and CPC Project (Fayville park); Fee structures for Summer Program and 911 Field
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Liquor License Hearing for Lalo’s Mexican Kitchen & Bar, 154 Turnpike Road; Pole Hearing for 14 Lovers Lane; FY27 Budget Overview Assign OML Complaint to Town Counsel; Approve reclassification of ARPA funds; Open warrant for April 11, 2026 Annual Town Meeting
Thursday, January 8, 2026
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 8 Schipper Farm Ln (bowling ball pyramid installation), 11 Brook Lane (septic replacement), Willow St (culvert replacements); Violation at 5 MacNeill Drive (clearing of vegetation on DCR property); Breakneck Hill Farm Dump restoration 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).
