Wayland Select Board finalizes edits to town manager special act

WAYLAND -- January 9, 2020, Wayland Select Board nears Monday vote on town manager special act after final edits. Meeting Jan. 9 with town counsel Carolyn Murray by phone, the board worked line-by-line through roughly two dozen revisions drafted in response to a Nov. 21 community forum. Members agreed to cap the town manager's contract at a term "not to exceed" three years, struck "in a related field" from the bachelor's-degree requirement, and broadened "municipal administration" to "government administration." References to police and fire departments were removed as holdover language from before the 2004 town administrator act. The board kept "consent" rather than "ratification" for subordinate-hire approvals, with one member saying "ratification is an action." The board approved Dec. 16 minutes 4-0 and adjourned at 9:31 a.m. after Vice-Chair Doug Levine departed at 9 a.m.