The week in government

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, August 3, 2026

• Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss applications for Fall Town Meeting (Fayville Park Improvements, Rural Cemetery Water Tower Restoration, Golf Course Irrigation, & Peninsula Trail Project), Discuss signage to complete projects; Ongoing projects

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

• Stewardship Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Prep for upcoming Select Board meeting; Town Forest, including Eagle project; Drone footage; Invasives treatment plan; Restorations of Beecology Meadow and Farm dump, including parking lot; Roadside Meadow; Community Gardens

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

• Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Proposed Town policy updates re budget process and reserve fund transfer; Discuss prelim FY28 Budget and proposed operational override; potentially appoint liaison to Elementary School Building Committee

Looking Back:

Below are meetings from last week that were posted to the Town website after I initially ran the list last Monday morning (including one that I added in a later update):

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

*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”), sometimes with no later rebroadcast, sometimes later posted to Southborough Access Media here and on Verizon-37 and Charter-192 and their YouTube channel.
  • 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.