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. 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 16, 2026
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Positions on FY27 budget items and Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles; possible vote on Facilities van replacement reserve fund request
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Approved excise tax abatements, additional senior property tax work off amount, 8 of 58 form for personal property tax abatement; and vote on release of overlay funds
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Food license for Fuel Fusion Nutrition; charge for Elementary School Building Committee; update on Trottier School roof replacement; FY25 OPEB Audit report; Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles (especially Atwood tank remediation, Establishing Separate Finance Committee, and banning Non-reuseable Plastic Bags) Senior Center update; review and approval of financial policies; and draft charge for Ad-Hoc Cemetery Expansion Committee
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Charge for Elementary School Building Committee & update on Trottier School roof replacement
- Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Committee roles and structures; and planning for grant reception
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Hearing on FY27 Budget; FY 25 Audit report; and Library Dept presentation
- Recreation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ location and zoom or @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on dept, programs, CPC project, grant, Fayville Hall parking; vote on 911 Field Fee; and 21 Highland Street update
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda, packet, additional 250 Turnpike Rd materials) Agenda Highlights: Hearings on 12 Darlene Dr (setback variance for porch), 34 Turnpike Rd (permit for extension/alteration to preexisting nonconforming structure), and 250 Turnpike Rd (40B townhouse development)
Thursday, March 19, 2026
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ 9 Cordaville Rd (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Town Forest, including Eagle project; Draft rules; Breakneck Eagle project; Tricentennial; Invasives treatment plan; Beecology Meadow restoration; Roadside Meadow; Farm dump restoration; and Community Gardens
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Public Safety Building Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Update on Westborough meeting relative to regional wastewater approach; One Stop grant process; workplan progress; discuss potential options for financing, sites, users, and worksteps
*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 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).
