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Wayland Town Crier 4/13/12: Town Meeting update: Voters OK study of potential senior housing. he fourth – and what was supposed to be the last – night of Town Meeting was abruptly adjourned at about 10:45 p.m. on Thursday as longtime resident Steve Allen, 85, collapsed and was rushed to MetroWest Medical Center, where he died. Prior to the medical emergency, the voters managed to dispose of six articles, leaving the sale of town-owned land on Lakeshore Drive, an audit of school fee-based programs since 2007, and a resolution to support electronic voting through 2015, to a fifth night of Town Meeting on Monday, April 23 at Wayland Middle School starting at 7:30 p.m.
Wayland Town Crier 4/12/12: Third night of Town Meeting: DPW articles approved. Voters paved the way for the design of a new Department of Public Works facility on River Road with the approval of Article 10 as amended on the third night of annual Town Meeting on Wednesday, in addition to approving Articles 11 and 12. Residents also determined it was unnecessary to appropriate funds to study teacher compensation in a petitioner’s Article 9, and rejected a bylaw change proposed by the Board of Assessors in Article 18.
Wayland Patch 4/11/12: Residents Approve FY13 Operating, Capital Budgets. Wayland voters Tuesday night approved a Fiscal Year 2013 budget that is estimated to reduce their 2013 tax rate to less than $18.15, or a decrease of 4.55 percent from the 2012 rate of $19.01. The operating budget motion presented by Finance Committee Chair Cherry Karlson was estimated to result in that $18.15 tax rate, but residents further reduced that proposed budget by passing an amendment to cut an additional $1.31 million from the proposed amount.
Wayland Town Crier 4/11/12: Latest update from town officials on Wayland Town Meeting. Summary of results of first two days of Town Meeting.
Wayland Town Crier 4/11/12: Wayland Town Meeting votes against FinCom changes. Proponents of an elected Finance Committee in Wayland saw their hopes dashed at the first session of Town Meeting on Monday night, as the petitioners’ discontent with the status quo of Wayland’s municipal government failed to sway a majority of voters to their side. After a spirited debate, the article was defeated 417-283.
Wayland Town Crier 4/11/12: Wayland Town Meeting votes to maintain CPA rate. A petitioners’ article to reduce the rate of the Community Preservation Act (CPA) property tax surcharge from 1.5% to 0.1% starting July 1 was defeated by a vote of 403-213 at the first session of annual Town Meeting on Monday night.
Wayland Town Crier 4/11/12: Amendments at Wayland Town Meeting reduce budget. Tax relief advocates successfully made motions at the second night of annual Town Meeting on Tuesday night to cut the amount of the fiscal 2013 operating budget to be raised by taxation.
