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, September 28, 2026
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Proposed zoning bylaw changes for 2-Family Dwelling Zoning, 154 Turnpike Rd. (site plan changes for non-compliance), 22 Turnpike Rd (Golf Range Site Plan Modification), and 21 Coslin Dr. (Costco Site Plan & Special Permits); Discuss Fay School Building Addition (Landscaping Mitigation), Master Plan Implementation Committee Goals, and Atty General’s Office letter of Decision on 2026 ATM Zoning Amendments
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Course improvement planning including Irrigation Project; Audubon Project
- MWRTA Advisory Board Meeting, pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Decide on adding Upton as new Town member; FY26 Audit Update; Fixed Route Operations Update; MWRTA Capital Projects
- Joint Meeting of Combined School Committees’ Policy Subcommittees, 6:30 pm @ webinar only (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Annual Policy Review; Proposals for New Policies (Restraint & Seclusion and Interacting with Law Enforcement Officers – Protect Act); Review policies on Religious Observance, Entrance Age for K & 1st Grade, Suspension & Expulsion, Transfer of Credits, Printed Materials, and Personnel (Section G)
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):
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: 2026 resident satisfaction survey design; Business process improvement suggestion; Tech related articles at Fall town meeting; Website update project; DPW Tech
Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Cemetery Expansion Committee Meeting, 1:00 pm (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: DPW Superintendent’s draft Screening Categories; number of plots per acre to be used for selection purposes
- Elementary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Presentation from consultant on Schematic Design Updates, Meeting with Educators, and Site Plan; Review Updated Educational Matrix and Price Estimates; Discuss Preferred Option to Move forward
*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”), sometimes with no later rebroadcast, sometimes later posted to Southborough Access Media here and on Verizon-37 and Charter-192 and their YouTube channel.
- 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.
