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, March 9, 2026
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27 Budget; Quote for Additional Security Cameras; Staff Appreciation Week; Disaster/Emergency Plan; Director Evaluation
- Regional School Committee – Audit Subcommittee Meeting, 4:30 pm @ webinar only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Review of FY25 Audit and OPEB Actuarial Valuation
- Housing Authority Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Colonial Gardens (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss CPC Funds/Realty Trust & Collaboration with Affordable Housing Trust
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on several proposed zoning bylaw changes (ADU Bylaw, Tricentennial signs, Industrial Park uses, 55+ Housing, MBTA Communities correction, and replacing SHOPC with AHT) and on site plans for 352 Turnpike Rd (DAVE Inc), 22 Turnpike Rd. (Golf Range), and 154 Turnpike Rd non-compliance; Discuss updating Subdivision Rules and Regs
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 8:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Review Facilities Dept FY27 capital request for Van and status for overall FY27 Capital Requests
Tuesday March 10, 2026
- Personnel Board Meeting, 8:30 am @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Approve final amendments to the FY27 SAP; recommendation to compensate Administrative Cemetery Agent; Review summary handout
- Board of Health Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote for Health Agent to Authorize Local Upgrade Approvals; Food Inspections; Housing Complaint Updates; Review of Energy Storage Regs
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Irrigation Project status; Continued effort to minimize wayward golf balls; Capital Projects
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Appoint Exec Asst & Senior Center Program Mgr; Joint Meeting with Advisory and Capital on FY27 budgets & capital expenses, and Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles (especially SAP bylaw, changing Town Clerk to appointed position, CPC Articles, and petition for plastic bag ban)
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: participate in Select Board meeting discussion of FY27 budget items
- Capital Improvement and Planning Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss FY27 Capital budget with Select Board
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update Select Board on CPC progress, Projects, Fall Applications and Annual Town Meeting warrant articles
- Personnel Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Present proposed FY27 SAP bylaw to Select Board
- School Committee Meeting, 8:15 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss draft charge of building renovation study committee
- Youth Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Dept highlights; Interface Referral Service’s most recent data; Friends Update
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
- Taxation Aid Committee Meeting, 4:15 pm @ Town House Hearing Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Initial review of 2026 applications for tax aid.
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Superintendent’s Evaluation Process; 2nd Readings of Policy changes (related to Teaching of Controversial Issues/Controversial Speakers, Middle School Pathway Exploration, Immunization Requirements, Wellness, and Athletic Concussion); Strategic Plan Reauthorization Update; Request to Mass Assoc of School Committees for statewide study of school calendars
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Building and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Status of events and fundraiser updates; Proposed Budget; Town Meeting to discuss the banner bylaw and the promotional material
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Trottier Middle School (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearing on FY27 Budget; Math Presentation; SmartBoard Discussion and Demo; Updates on Bid Document Prep for Neary Renovation Project and new Building Committee; New Principal Appointments; Trottier Roof MSBA Status Update; Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles; Neary Roof next steps
Thursday, March 12, 2026
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 11:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Lynbrook Road water main replacement, and Southville Road (construction of two apartment buildings and associated site work)
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Thursday, March 5, 2026
- Trottier School Council Meeting, 2:30 pm (agenda)
*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 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 (3/9/26 1:27 pm) The Combined School Committees revised their agenda to add voting on making a request to Mass Assoc of School Committees to conduct a statewide study of school caldendars.
