The Board of Selectmen will meet on Monday, July 9, 2012 in Town Building.  In a departure from the customary schedule, the meeting will begin…

Wayland Town Crier 7/5/12: Wayland Finance Committee sends surplus to free cash. The Finance Committee last week decided to take no action on approximately $985,000…

Wayland Patch 6/20/12: Wayland Officials Appoint Five to Audit Committee. Wayland's Board of Selectmen, School Committee and Finance Committee met in a joint meeting Monday to interview seven candidates who threw their resumes in the hat for Wayland's new audit committee. Appointed were: Tony Boschetto (by School Committee), Gordon Cliff (by Finance Committee) and Christopher Cullen, Ben Downs and Christopher Riley (by the Board of Selectmen).

Wayland Patch 3/31/12: Wayland FinCom Cuts Proposed Operating Budget. The Wayland Finance Committee voted Wednesday night to adjust the operating budget proposed in the 2012 Annual Town Meeting Warrant. During a meeting that adjourned just after midnight, the committee voted to cut about $2.3 million from the proposed Fiscal 2013 operating budget. The committee made cuts to the pension and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) payments, the biggest part of which goes to retiree healthcare benefits.

Wayland Patch 1/24/12: Budget Prep, Water Enterprise Fund Discussed at Warrant Hearing. Representatives of town boards and committees, lead petitioners and even a few representatives of lead petitioners took to the podium Monday night for the Wayland Finance Committee’s 2012 Annual Town Meeting Warrant hearing. The hearing, held in the Large Hearing Room at Wayland Town Building, was intended to allow members of the Finance Committee and residents to learn more and ask questions about the articles, and was not designed as a time to debate the actual merits of each article.

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Wayland Town Crier 1/24/12: Petitioners want to change budget process. Residents seeking lower taxes and more oversight of the budget proposed a number of annual Town Meeting articles during last night’s warrant hearing. The articles follow the fall special Town Meeting when voters reduced taxes for the current fiscal year by $4 million. Now some residents are taking aim at the way the town prepares its operating budget.

Wayland Town Crier 10/26/11: Wayland special Town Meeting may be stormy. Residents attending special Town Meeting on Nov. 17 may want to fasten their seat belts, because if Monday night's hearing on the warrant is a preview of the expected debate, it's going to be a bumpy night. A special Town Meeting was called in response to a petition signed by 397 registered voters who want to tap into the town's hefty free cash account to lower their tax bills. The residents want to apply a surplus of free cash to the town's previously approved fiscal 2012 budget for an immediate lowering of the tax rate. The amount of free cash certified at this year's annual Town Meeting was $8.5 million, or 13.2% of the total budget. Due to unanticipated revenues, that amount has grown to $10.3 million, or 14.9%.

Managing Wayland’s Finances By Wayland Finance Committee Much has been written about the questions residents have raised about our free cash balance and our finances. We…