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 26, 2026
- Registrars of Voters Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Town House Foyer (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Designating a new Clerk, Signature and Stamp for the Registrars; Authorization of Advanced Opening/Early Deposit October 31
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
- Board of Assessors Meeting, 4:15 pm @ DPW Meeting Room (agenda with packet) Agenda Highlights: Sign excise abatements and Commitment; Vote on Treasurer’s request to write off outstanding FY26 taxes for tax lien Parcel 20-30A; Sign roll-back tax form Map 71 Lot 6 (lot 3 on proposed plan); Release overlay reserve; Overlay article to be submitted for Annual Town Meeting
- Joint Meeting of Policy Development Subcommittees for Combined School Committees Meeting, 6:00 pm @ webinar only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: First Review of policies (on Interacting with Law Enforcement Officers Engaged In Civil Law Enforcement, Physical Restraint and Prevention and Behavior Support Policy, Religious and Cultural Observance Policy, Minimum Entrance Age for Kindergarten and First Grade, Suspension and Expulsion, Transfer of Credits to Algonquin Regional High School, Competency Determination); Proposed Research and Analysis on Personnel Policies; Recommend for Rescind policy on Printed Materials
- Municipal Technology Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Resident survey status; Business process improvement suggestion; Select Board priorities; Resident feedback on town tech; Website update project
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Follow up on applications approved at Town Meeting; Review of applications for Annual Town Meeting (Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Water Tower Restoration, Fay Park Dog Park/Splash Pad); signage to complete projects
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
- Affordable Housing Trust Meeting, 7:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Recaps of Special Town Meeting and Metrowest Municipal Affordable Housing Trust meeting; Updates on 55+ Housing Bylaw, AHT funds investment, and CPA application; Discuss potential housing strategies (updates on Mass. Housing Partnership mini-boost program and Property donation effort); potential parcels for acquisition
October 29, 2026
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Native Buffer Project at Beals Preserve; Public Hearings on replacing footbridge in Town Forest, Stonebrook Village soil absorption system replacement, Costco project at 21 Coslin Dr, Relocation of Fay School athletic fields, 250 Turnpike Rd townhouse development project, Southville Rd two apartment buildings project; 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 early last week (including ones that I added in later updates):
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- Elementary School Building Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Vote on directing consultants to advance the investigation of “Option 3”, including additional specs, scope of work, cost estimates, and other info necessary for evaluation.
- Planning Board Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Participate in ZBA Meeting discussion of 40-42 Central Street (Southborough Historical Society’s Appeal)
Thursday, October 22, 2026
- Cemetery Expansion Committee, 1:00 pm @ Dept of Public Works Building (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Continue discussions on screening categories and establishing plots per acre to be used for selection purposes
- Cultural Arts Council Meeting, 5:30 pm (agenda, look for video to be posted here) Agenda Highlights: Available grant funding; Training; Grant Review Process; Council Roles & Responsibilities
- Wastewater Study Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm (agenda, video) Agenda Highlights: Update on Mass DEP conversation; Rt 9/I-495 Gateway Initiative grant; ArtifexAI proposal; possible sites; Mass Development support opportunities; financing options
Friday, October 23, 2026
*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.
