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, October 5, 2026
- Council on Aging Meeting, 10:00 am @ Senior Center (agenda) Agenda Highlights: November & December programs; Bylaws update; Discuss possible reports to Select Board; Survey discussion; Nurse position; Youth & Family Services & Colonial Gardens; Centennial Committee/raised beds; club & group reports
- Library Board of Trustees Meeting, 11:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY28 Library Budget; Policy for Residents of Decertified Communities
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
- Golf Course Committee Meeting, 9:00 am @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: text
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Monthly excise tax abatements; sign roll-back tax form Map 71 Lot 6 (lot 3 on proposed plan); Vote on Treasurer’s request to write off preliminary taxes for tax lien Parcel 20-30A; Update on next cyclical inspection program;
- Select Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Update from Government Structure Study consultant; Procurement/COI financial policy; Prep for Special Town Meeting (including Review warrant articles; Respond to request to lower amount to rescind through Article 6 from the borrowing authorization for Breakneck Hill Farm Dump remediation)
- Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda, STM Warrant) Agenda Highlights: Discuss Special Town Meeting Warrant Articles; Draft Advisory Report to Special Town Meeting
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
- Joint Meeting of Regional School Committee’s Subcommittes on Operational Budget & Capital Planning, 7:30 am @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY28 Budget Process, Priorities, & Capital Plan
- Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda, STM Warrant) Agenda Highlights: Discuss proposed Two-Family Dwelling Warrant Article
Thursday, October 8, 2026
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda, STM Warrant) Agenda Highlights: Fall Town Meeting CPA Articles (Golf Course Irrigation and Peninsula Trail Project); Review of potential Articles for Annual Town Meeting (Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Water Tower Restoration, Fay Park Dog Park/Splash Pad); Signage to complete projects; Elect officers; Consultant Contract;
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 1 Overlook Drive (pool construction), 0 Marlboro Junction (relocation and reconstruction of Fay School’s athletic fields), 250 Turnpike Road & 0 Parkerville Road (32 townhouses), 0 Southville Road (2 apartment buildings); Lift Enforcement Order on 6 Lynbrook Road; FY28 Budget; Flooding on Route 9 & 344 Turnpike Road
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, October 1, 2026
- Trails Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Yoga on the Trails; Peninsula Trail next steps; CPA application review; Choate Fund Grant update; Heritage Day Planning; Bog bridges – AMC volunteer opportunity; Updates on Tools, storage, and Trail Maintenance
Friday, October 2, 2026
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 12:00 pm (agenda, look for video to be posted here) Agenda Highlights: FY28 Budget Process & Priorities
*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.
