Wayland Town Crier 8/16/12: Wayland Board of Assessors adopt new service model. Several years ago, the Wayland assessors’ office was in trouble. Members of the Board of Assessors – all volunteers – were sometimes called in to take on jobs the professional staff had been hired to do. Office operations were three to four times as expensive as in peer towns. And in 2009, nearly 400 abatements were filed, almost one for every 10 properties in the community. This was down just slightly from 429 in 2006, the previous revaluation year. This has all changed.