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, August 25, 2026
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss applications for FY27 Fall Town Meeting (Fay Park Improvements, Golf Course Irrigation, and Peninsula Trail Project); discuss Town Meetings; Review available funds for potential applications; Officer election
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 6:00 pm @ 21 Highland Street (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on CPC Project, Fayville Hall parking, Summer & Fall programs; FY27 Wrap Up; Discuss Capital, Neary School Committee, & 911 Field Report;
21 Highland Street plan update; Policy Procedure - Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Questions/topics for annual survey; Massachusetts Housing Partnership Mini-Boost grant application update; 55+ Housing Bylaw Update; Discuss potential financing, housing strategies, and parcel acquisition
Thursday, August 27, 2026
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Resident feedback on Town tech; Meeting room upgrade; DPW tech; Public Safety Drone Review; tech plans; Upcoming presentations to the select board on tech and survey results
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Fay School’s athletic fields at Marlboro Junction (conversion to turf), 250 Turnpike Rd (32 rental town homes), and 0 Southville Rd (2 apartment buildings); Request for Certificate of Compliance for 355 Turnpike Rd; Request for Administrative Amendment for 45 Southville Rd; Golf Course Irrigation Project Update; Lucas Environmental Contract
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail Phase next steps; Updates on Trail Shed tools and storage, trail maintenance, Choate Fund Grant, CPA grant, and Trail Awareness Day for Tricentennial
*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).
Updated (8/25/26 4:02 pm): Agendas were newly posted for Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust, Municipal Technology Committee, and the Trails Committee. And new items were added to a revised agendas for the Community Preservation Committee and Conservation Commission.
