Wayland Select Board endorses $87 million FY21 budget plan

WAYLAND -- December 16, 2019, Wayland Select Board endorses $87 million FY21 budget with 5.69 percent spending increase. The board voted 5-0 to forward the town administrator's recommended budget to the Finance Committee, after the finance director told members that $3.7 million of the $4.7 million year-over-year increase is already committed, including a $100,000, or 44 percent, jump in the Minuteman Regional assessment and a $718,000 increase in school steps and lanes. The plan funds $241,000 in new town FTEs (a firefighter, a facilities business manager, an elementary school nurse) and seeds a new capital stabilization fund with $313,000. Taxation would rise 6.5 percent, or 4.57 percent excluding new excluded debt. Separately, the board deferred renewing the auto dealer license for Wayland Automotive Sales, licensed for 19 vehicles but, one member said, "way over our licensing level" for some 30 years.