Select Board advances tailings, $545,000 COA reallocation for town meeting warrant

WAYLAND -- January 13, 2020, Wayland Select Board advances tailings article and $545,000 COA reallocation toward annual town meeting warrant. Chair Carol B. Martin led the Jan. 13 review, with Vice-Chair Doug Levine joining late. Town counsel explained that adopting Section 9A of Chapter 200A would let Wayland recover unclaimed checks written to former employees and vendors instead of remitting them to the state, and would for the first time put an expiration date on town checks. "Tailings are the unclaimed checks that the town of Wayland writes to both employees and vendors," counsel said, calling the change a way to "procedurally clean up some of our books." Resident Bill Sterling of Morris Road told the board the community center RFP "reflects the needs of the studies" of the past decade. Martin also unveiled the new C. Peter R. Gossels Good Governance Award.