Wayland Select Board sends nine articles to town meeting warrant

WAYLAND -- January 13, 2025, Wayland Select Board sends nine articles to town meeting and pares an MWRA design contract by nearly half. Meeting remotely Jan. 13 under acting chair William Whitney, the board voted 5-0 to authorize Town Manager Michael McCall to sign a roughly $325,000 task order with Kleinfelder Engineers, down from a proposed $617,932, stripping out design work for a Happy Hollow PFAS treatment plant while licensed site professional Ben Gould and the firm review whether contamination at 195 Main Street would force separate remediation. A non-binding resolution from Vice-Chair Doug Levine testing voter support for a privately developed recreation facility at 195 Main passed 4-0-1, with Chair Carol B. Martin abstaining and calling it a "popularity contest." Residents including Gretchen Dressens called the 195 Main process "messy and biased"; more than 1,500 residents reportedly backed an EDC article creating a Route 20 pre-order pickup window overlay, which the board also advanced 5-0. Finance Director Brian Keveney warned an energy revolving fund could divert rebates "back into the project," and that article was held.