Wayland Select Board signals town meeting likely to slip to September

WAYLAND -- May 15, 2020, Wayland Select Board signals annual town meeting will likely slip to September. Town Administrator Louise Miller told the board Friday that the state's 10-person gathering cap and the absence of an FY21 state budget, now projected to fall more than 10 percent below this year's revenue, make a June meeting impractical, with surrounding open-town-meeting communities largely postponing and a few exploring "drive-in" meetings. Miller said the Loker School roof, a 14-week project compressible to seven or eight weeks, cannot proceed unless construction begins by the second week of July: "I think right now we're not planning on replacing the Loker roof next summer." The town has received about $7,500 in health-care grants and expects roughly 75 percent of COVID costs reimbursed through FEMA and the CARES Act. The board approved May 1 and May 8 minutes and a consent calendar on 5-0 roll-call votes. Three open-meeting-law complaints by resident George Harris remain pending.