Wayland Patch 2/6/13: FinCom Recommends Funding One of Two Public Safety Personnel Requests. The Wayland Finance Committee spent a couple of meetings weighing the decision, but ultimately decided that the Wayland Fire Department could wait to hire a new firefighter. “We thought the chief made a very compelling argument for it,” FinCom Chair Bill Steinberg told Patch. “We don’t have a problem with it in general; we were just trying to limit new items overall this year.”