Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas. (It’s a quiet week!)
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, April 21, 2026
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve excise tax commitments & abatements and Community Preservation Surcharge Report to Dept of Revenue; report on tax abatement applications
Thursday, April 23, 2026
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Westborough regional project; One Stop process status; OneDrive discussion; Workplan progress; Discuss options for potential financing, sites, users
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Friday, April 17, 2026
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: FY27 SAP wrap up; Any modifications to the annual performance review process; Review/approve draft Scope of Services for salary study; Approve request for professional development workshop; Discuss reorganization of board
- Open Space Preservation Commission Meeting, 12:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on ATM OSPC Amendment Article 13 Roadway and Sidewalk Improvements; Discuss Invasive Species Recommendations for Planning Board; Finalize Recommendations on Native Plant Requirements for Conservation Commission and Planning Board; Golf Course Audubon International Management Plan
*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).
