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, June 16, 2025
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Interview and Vote on finalist for Director of Student Support Services; Reappoint School Physician; Legal Counsel Agreement; Second Readings of policy revisions (on Bullying Prevention & Intervention, Civil Rights Nondiscrimination, Sexual Harassment, Animals on During School Hours, and Religious Observance); Superintendent’s Evaluation and Contract
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review of proposals related to FY26 compensation; discussion of future alternatives
- Board of Trustees of the AHT Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Housing Production Plan discussion with Community Scale
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Act on request to write off uncollectable taxes; sign tax commitments, new growth form, and tax abatements; Principal Assessor Performance Review
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on changes to Transfer Station Rules & Regs; 66 Oak Hill Road- Right of Way access request; Update on 21 Highland Future Use Committee; fall Special Town Meeting date; Approve grade changes for DPW employees; Consideration of revised charge for Neary Building Committee; Review of Select Board goals for FY26
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Health & Fitness Department Presentation; Enrollments
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting,
7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Forum; Update/Request from Trails Committee on open projects; Review of revised Application for FY26; Discuss open projects and step(s) forward and signage for complete projects - Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on permits for 12 Winchester Street (extension & alteration of pre-existing, nonconforming structure), 118 Turnpike Road (exercise facility and multiple uses on one lot); 250 Turnpike Rd 40B
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Updates on work of working groups and fundraisers; Heritage Day 2027 and Community Event calendar
Thursday, June 12, 2025
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Plan the next 3 months, prepare for Select Board briefing, discuss public parcels under consideration, and a plan to finance a system
*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:
- 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 on Southborough’s Education Channel (Verizon-29 and Charter-194). The meetings are also eventually rebroadcast and available through NCAT’s VideoOnDemand player and YouTube channel (though that can take several days).
