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, August 11, 2025
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ 21 Highland Street (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Program updates; Approve services on sports fields (Kallander, Depietri, Trottier, & Choate) and tree branch removal at Fayville park; Votes on Capital, CPC project, and CPC appointment; Fayville Hall parking; Updates on Summer Nights, fall program registration, and scholarship
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- Board of Health Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on Updating Tobacco Regulations; Update on Brox (asphalt plant in Marlborough); Mission Statement; Vaccination clinic
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Status of irrigation and 1st hole cart path; work to minimize wayward balls (fencing, trees, signage, and golfer reminder); Tee refurbishment; Audubon certification
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Excise tax comittments and abatements; Request from Trustees to lease portions of Chestnut Hill Farm
- PreK-8 Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss survey; Matrix Update
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on dept and strategic plan; Outreach opportunities
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ webinar only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Updates on School Building Tasks, PreK-8 School Building Committee Options (Educational Considerations), and Transportation/buses; PreK-8 School Building Survey
Thursday, August 14, 2025
- Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Housing Production Plan Recap; Discuss eliminating/modifying zoning cap on senior housing units, strategies for affordable housing and parcels for acquisition
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, August 7, 2025
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, look for video to be posted here) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates; Trail mowing and brush clearing; bench location and scheduling, shed & tool org
*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”) with no later rebroadcast.
- 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).
- 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.
