Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas. (It’s a busy week!)
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, September 14, 2026
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 8:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Warrant Articles for Fall Town Meeting (Golf Course Irrigation & Peninsula Trail Project)
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Senior Center (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Summer program wrap-up; Updates on upcoming programs, Heritage Day, Bylaw, new website, and senior clubs and groups
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY28 Library Budget & Capital Expense Requests; Tricentennial Updates; Library Circulating Hotspot Policy
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on proposed bylaw for Two-Family Dwelling Zoning, 154 Turnpike Rd Site Plan Modification (non-compliance), and 22 Turnpike Rd (Golf Range) Site Plan Modification; Discuss Master Plan Implementation Committee Goals, Subdivision Rules and Regs update, board’s Role in Zoning Enforcement, and Fay School Building’s Addition – Landscaping Mitigation; Atty General’s Office letter of Decision of 2026 ATM Zoning Amendments; 40-42 Central St. (Southborough Historical Society); Costco Project Status; Fayville Park Expansion Project & Parking; 2027 Annual Town Meeting Warrant Articles
- Stewardship Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Status of RFPs (invasives, restoration); Prep for Conservation Commission meeting; Town Forest; Drone footage status; Roadside Meadow; Community Gardens
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Board of Health Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Kratom- What it is and the new order; FY28 Budgets; Variance Request – 250 Turnpike Road; Flu Clinics
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Vote on Fall Town Meeting Article to increase
Personal Property exemption amount from $1500 to $2500; FY28 proposed budget; Update on new vendor for cyclical inspections - Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Board Positions on special Town Meeting Articles (especially Change Town Clerk to Appointed, Two-Family Dwelling zoning, Community Preservation Act funding for Golf Course Irrigation and Peninsula Trails project); Reduce Cemetery Expansion Committee to 3 members; Review appeal for Water Bill at 40 Mount Vickery Road; Approve remaining Financial Policies (Annual Budget, Capital Planning, Procurement/COI, Financial Reserves, Purchasing)
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Select Board Meeting (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Participate in discussion of warrant articles for October 17th Special Town Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
- Combined School Committees Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Strategic Plan Vision 2032 Presentation; Superintendent’s Evaluation Goals; 2027-2028 School Calendar Discussion; New policies on Restraint and Seclusion Regulations and Interacting with Law Enforcement Officers Engaged In Civil Law Enforcement
- Tricentennial Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Public Safety Training Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Updates on fundraising/budget, House Tour, Volunteer Recruitment, event status, and fundraisers; Future arts council grant; Heritage Day plans/logistics
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only(agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 40-42 Central Street Southborough Historical Society Appeal of Building Commissioner’s denial of a Certificate of Occupancy and Notice of Zoning Violation, hearings for special permit and variance to allow 15 feet of frontage on preexisting nonconforming lots on Northboro Road; Public Forum – Proposed Two-Family Dwelling Bylaw
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Discuss warrant articles for Fall Town Meeting; discuss drafting of Advisory Report to Special Town Meeting
- Regional School Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ Algonquin Regional High School Library (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Update on School opening; Feedback on the Action Plan from Whitsons (contracted Food Services Management); Reappoint District Assistant Treasurer; Updates on International Travel to Spain, Cell Phone Protocol; Reports; FY28 Draft Capital Plan and Budget Priorities
Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 1 Overlook Drive (pool construction), 0 Marlboro Junction (Fay School relocation & reconstruction of athletic fields), 250 Turnpike Road (building 32 townhouses), 0 Southville Road (construction of 2 apartment buildings); FY28 Budget
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted to the Town website after I initially ran the list last Monday morning (including ones that I added in later updates):
Thursday, September 10, 2026
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail next steps; CPA application; Choate Fund Grant update; Bog bridges – AMC volunteer opportunity; Updates on shed, tools & storage and trail maintenance; Service projects
*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 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).
Updated (9/14/26 10:01 am): As soon as I posted, I realized that the ZBA had just updated its agenda to make their meeting over zoom only.
The Planning Board had already done the same in time for me to catch that. Their agenda noted it was due to a technical issue. So, it appears there is a problem with the equipment in the Town House Hearing Room.
