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.)**
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Public Safety Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Course improvement planning including irrigation project; Audubon project
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Fay Memorial Park (Fayville playground and park)
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Alcohol License for Rotary Club’s Oktoberfest; Parking Improvements at Fayville Park; Cemetery Expansion Committee’s Action Plan; Options for waste disposal contract renewal; Health plan design changes; Retain foreclosed parcel as Town property; Review MTC’s Survey Results; Approve new & revised Financial policies; October 17th Special Town Meeting warrant; Extend Golf Club Management contract; Assign members to work on Atwood remediation project and successor agreement for Chief Puntini; Sinkhole at 11 Constitution Drive
Thursday, September 3, 2026
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Trust Fund support; Discuss February 2027 applications.
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Continuing discussions on AI results for possible plant/discharge sites, plans for October Special Town Meeting, Mass Development support opportunities, Rt 9/I-495 Gateway Initiative, options for financing, potential sites & users, timeline and worksteps
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 ones that I added in later updates):
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
- Board of Trustees of the Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) 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 (agenda, look for video to be posted here) 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
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) 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).
- 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.
