Wayland Select Board approves Wayland Gulf liquor license, ranks building repairs as top capital need

WAYLAND -- December 11, 2017, Wayland Select Board approves Wayland Gulf liquor license 4-1 and prioritizes $3.4 million in building repairs. The board granted Manheim and Jennifer Mac an off-premise wine-and-malt license for their convenience store at 28 Boston Post Road, despite concerns from member Louis Jurist that there is no "community need" for a third alcohol retailer within roughly 100 yards. Members ranked the town building mechanical and electrical replacement ($1.57 million), Fire Station 2 renovations ($1.8 million) and a Munis revenue module ($230,000) as top FY19 capital priorities, and agreed to ask the Finance Committee about packaging the building work as a debt-exclusion question. Auditor Scott McIntyre of Melanson Heath reported that the town's unassigned general fund balance grew from $7.9 million to about $10.9 million in FY17, roughly 15 percent of revenues, while the net pension liability held at $53.7 million.