Historical Commission ranks rail trestle supports as top CPA priority

WAYLAND -- December 2, 2024, Wayland Historical Commission ranks rail trestle supports first among four CPA requests. Chair Bradford Carver led members through prioritizing four historical-category Community Preservation Act applications after the CPC reported 11 requests totaling roughly $3.27 million are competing for limited funds. Rail trestle supports placed first, followed by preservation of the town's deteriorating valuation books dating to 1778, the roughly $4,000 Boston Post Cane display project, and an $80,000 Stone's Bridge cost overrun last. Commissioner Amanda Ciaccio said the bridge funding "is going to take money away from other projects" and that the project had been "mismanaged." The commission separately voted to cover roughly $175 in cost overruns on R. Richard Conard's $1,375 Cultural Council-funded vinyl wrap project for the Tower Hill electrical cabinet, and amended its Nov. 15 motion to explicitly include archival boxes for 245 historical record books in the assessor's CPA request.