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 17, 2025
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Request to review DPW Business Admin job description and classification; Timeline for addressing FY27 updates of the SAP; FY27 Personnel Board budget; discuss scope & funding of salary study
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27 Budget; Asphalt Pathway Removal; Library Parking Lot; Preservation Restriction; Wireless Hotspot Circulation Policy; Disaster/Emergency Plan
- Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss CPC Funds/Realty Trust & Collaboration with Affordable Housing Trust
- Southborough School Committee’s Operational Budget Subcommittee Meeting, 7:15 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27 Revised Preliminary Budget Review
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
- Board of Health Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27 Budget and Memo; 250 Turnpike Road 40B Site Plan Review; GPH (Greater Boroughs Partnership for Health) Position update
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Utility Pole Hearing (16 Meadow Lane); Health Insurance update; Wastewater Committee update; Winter Parking Ban; Utility easement for Water Dept; PILOT update; Policy proposal for Board approval to fill open positions; Next steps for Neary School; Potential dates for Spring Special Town Meeting; Successor agreement for Finance Director; Naming public spaces at Public Safety Facility
- Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review and score grant applicants
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
- Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds Meeting, 9:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss application process and possible streamlining with Youth & Family Services
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Application schedule and any changes/edits to application or process
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review applications for Transfer to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Rural Cemetery Water Tower Restoration Project, and Fayville Park Improvements; Vote on project eligibility; Signage to complete projects; ongoing projects
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (and live streamed on YouTube) (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Student Support Services Department Presentation; Enrollments & Projections; FY27 Capital Plan and Budget Priorities; Review new draft graduation Competency Determination policy (in compliance with new DESE standards).
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet, more 250 Turnpike Rd materials here) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on 32 Central Street (Permit for house addition – changes to preexisting, nonconforming structure), 250 Turnpike Rd (40B Permit for 32 Town Homes), 118 – 120 Turnpike Rd (Permit for multiple uses); 355 Turnpike Road (Pratt Auto seeking permit for multiple uses on one lot)
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, November 13, 2025
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail status; Trail mowing/maintenance update
Also worth noting, the Conservation Commission Meeting that had been scheduled for that evening was cancelled.
*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.
