A sampling of Natick town government meetings and agenda items for the week of September 8, 2025 (Review all meetings & agendas):
School Committee Meeting – In-person(Town Hall) and via Zoom (September 8, 6:00pm)
Focus: Education, Planning, and Budget
- Superintendent presents 2025–26 Bridge Plan, annual goals, and student handbooks.
- Review of capital funding requests and staffing vacancies.
- Routine approvals (financial reports, technology retirements, field trip approval for Speech & Debate Team to Yale).
- Committee sets its own goals and meeting calendar for the year.
- Looking ahead: update on MSBA/FinCom warrant article (9/30/25).
Select Board Meeting – In-person(Town Hall) and via Zoom (September 9, 6:30pm)
Split Tax Rate Discussion Series
- Discussion with Local Businesses on Potential Split Tax Rate
Continued Hearing – Gatsby’s Chop House, LLC’s S12 All Alcohol On Premise License – License not in use
Affordable Housing Trust Fund Meeting – via Zoom (September 9, 7:30pm)
Housing Plans and Eviction Prevention — with direct overlap on projects also before CPC.
- Subcommittee updates on:
- 5 Auburn St project
- 246 N. Main (Habitat for Humanity) build
- 299/301 Bacon St
- Wilson Gardens
- Eviction Prevention / Housing for All
- Updates on affordable housing vacancies, CPA-related issues, and outreach efforts.
- Budget update (Brodie Thomas).
Community Preservation Committee (CPC) series of meetings
Two sessions this week reviewing CPA funding applications:
- Monday, September 8 6:45pm at the Senior Center and via Zoom
- Focus on:
- Historic preservation (Bacon Free Library fence, Morse Institute Library study, Bunker Hill Muster Roll).
- Recreation improvements (South Natick Park, Memorial Beach shade structure).
- Housing for All initiative (broad housing access funding request).
- Budget review.
- Tuesday, September 9, 6:45pm at the Town Hall and via Zoom
- Focus on housing projects:
- 5 Auburn St
- Habitat for Humanity at 246 N. Main St
- Budget review.
CPC is the funding gatekeeper — reviewing CPA requests tied directly to projects also being tracked by the Housing Trust Fund.
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