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.)**
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15pm @ DPW Meeting Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve excise tax abatements; Update on cyclical inspections
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on Affordable Housing Trust and Tricentennial Committee; Approve changing retiree health insurance plans & leaving MA Strategic Health Group; DEP request for additional sampling/risk assessment for Parkerville Road landfill; Scope for governance study; Discuss Special Town Meeting
- Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update to and discussion with Select Board on AHT’s activities
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Health Insurance advisors; Guidance Dept presentation; Update on Creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Study Group; Ratify Agreement with Algonquin Regional Teachers Association Unit A; District Credit Card Discussion; Proposal to Establish a Special Education Stabilization Fund; FY27 Revised Preliminary Budget; Warrant Articles; and Transportation Update
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on working groups, events, and fundraisers
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Hearing on 250 Turnpike Road 40B permit
Thursday, January 22, 2026
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 12:00 pm @ webinar (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Reviews of FY27 Recommended Budget and FY27-FY36 Capital Plan
- Trottier School Council Meeting, 2:30 pm @ Trottier Middle School Room 190 (agenda) Agenda Highlights: School Culture Update; Digital Detox Day; School Safety and Security; and Science Curriculum Update
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Any changes/edits to the application or the application process
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27 applications for Affordable Housing Trust transfer, Rural Cemetery Water Tower Restoration Project, and Fayville Park Improvements; signage to complete projects; ongoing projects; update on Preservation Restrictions for Town House/Library
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, January 15, 2026
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: One Stop Rt 9 FY27 grant process discussion; workplan progress; potential financing, sites, and users
*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 YouTube channel, and on Southborough’s Education Channel (Verizon-29 and Charter-194). The meetings are also eventually rebroadcast and available on demand through NCAT’s VideoOnDemand player and YouTube (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.
