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, November 2, 2026
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Senior Center (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Survey discussion debrief; updates on upcoming programs and senior center groups
- MetroWest Regional Transit Authority Advisory Board Meeting, 10:00 am @ Framingham and webinar (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Operations Contract Amendment; Annual Safety Metrics
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on Costco Site Plan (traffic analysis): Discussions on Valvoline (As builts), Fay School additions (landscaping & Asbuilts)
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of overall capital plans; next steps (may include updates related to: Police, Fire, DPW, Recreation, Facilities, and Schools)
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
- Select Board Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Assessors’ Tax Classification Hearing; Preliminary discussion of FY28 Budget; Grant award for Fayville Park; ZBA’s proposed article for Annual Town Meeting; Approve successor Employment Agreement for Fire Chief; Recap of Special Town Meeting including and lessons learned
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 6:00 pm @ Town House, Office of the Assessors, then Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approve excise tax monthly abatements; vote reserve fund overlay surplus amount; Tax Classification Hearing
Thursday, November 5, 2026
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail next steps; Trail marking and maintenance assessment Recap; Tricentennial First Day Trail Walk Event; Choate Fund Grant update
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):
Thursday, October 29, 2026
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 4:30 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: 2nd reading of policy change on medication administration in school [Editor’s Note: You can find that policy in the packet from the prior week’s cancelled meeting. This meeting appears to only include administrative agenda items that couldn’t wait until November.]
Friday, October 30, 2026
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am (agenda, look for video to be posted here) Agenda Highlights: Draft of the 2026 Salary Study; FY28 Personnel Board budget
*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.
