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, October 19, 2026
- Southborough Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Housing Notices on Wage Match for State Housing Program Tenants; Approve covering 72.5% of the cost of dental insurance for the Maintenance Mechanic
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public hearings on 22 Turnpike Rd. (Golf Range site plan) and 154 Turnpike Rd. (non-compliance, site plan); Discuss Fay School Building Addition; Master Plan Implementation Committee Goals; Subcommittee for Master Plan 2031 [Editor’s Note: The Costco hearing is expected to be continued to a future meeting without testimony this week]
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 8:15 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of overall capital plans and requests
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- Board of Health Meeting, 10:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote to Approve FY28 Budget
[Editor’s Note: The Select Board won’t hold a meeting on October 20th.]1
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- Cancelled — Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: [Editor’s Note: This meeting was announced as cancelled “due to the Town of Northborough’s website – temporary service disruption.”] Recognition of M.A.S.S. Certificate of Academic Excellence recipents and National Merit Scholars; Intro new district food services manager; APTO presentation; Update on cell phone practices; FY28 capital plan and budget priorities; Transportation update; 2nd reading of policy change on medication administration in school
- Elementary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on directing consultants to advance the investigation of “Option 3”, including additional specs, scope of work, cost estimates, and other info necessary for evaluation.
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on 40-42 Central Street (Southborough Historical Society’s appeal of Building Commissioner’s denial of a Certificate of Occupancy and Notice of Zoning Violation); Town Meeting Debrief on Two-Family Dwellings zoning; Proposed zoning bylaw revisions for Annual Town Meeting (55+ Housing and updates based on recent state Zoning Act Revisions)
- Planning Board Meeting, 7:00 pm @ ZBA Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Participate in ZBA Meeting discussion of 40-42 Central Street (Southborough Historical Society’s Appeal)
Thursday, October 22, 2026
- Cemetery Expansion Committee, 1:00 pm @ Dept of Public Works Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Continue discussions on screening categories and establishing plots per acre to be used for selection purposes
- Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Available grant funding; Training; Grant Review Process; Council Roles & Responsibilities
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Mass DEP conversation; Rt 9/I-495 Gateway Initiative grant; ArtifexAI proposal; possible sites; Mass Development support opportunities; financing options
Friday, October 23, 2026
- Select Board Meeting, 11:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Petition Legislature for a Special Act Regarding the Town Clerk Position; Consider Letter Requesting Additional Review & Assessment for Amazon Prime Air in Westborough
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) plus a correction to agenda highlights:
Thursday, October 15, 2026
- Elementary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Update from consultant
Saturday, October 17, 2026
- Preparation Meetings for Special Town Meeting — in person only
- Planning Board Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on Article 2 to revise zoning for Two-Family Dwelling
- Select Board Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Special Town Meeting prep
- Trails Committee Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Special Town Meeting prep (Article 4 – CPA Peninsula Trail project)
- Community Preservation Commission Meeting, 9:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Article CPA Articles 3 & 4
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:30 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Town Meeting topics (includes Article 3 – CPA Funds for Golf Irrigation Project)
*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 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.
Updated (10/19/26 11:30 am): I added the clarification about the Select Board’s meeting schedule.
Updated (10/19/26 2:19 pm): The Elementary School Building Committee posted an agenda for Wednesday and Cemetery Expansion Committee posted an agenda for Thursday.
Updated (10/21/26 12:55 pm): New agendas were posted for Wednesday through Friday for the Planning Board, Cultural Arts Council, Wastewater Study Committee, and Select Board.
Updated (10/21/26 4:16 pm): The NSBORO district announced that the Regional School Committee meeting is cancelled “due to the Town of Northborough’s website – temporary service disruption.”]
