Wayland selectmen map response to $900,000 Finance Committee budget cut

WAYLAND -- January 16, 2018, Wayland selectmen begin response to Finance Committee's $900,000 FY19 cut demand. Town Administrator Nan Balmer told the board Tuesday she could shrink the gap to roughly $400,000 without touching program budgets by booking $150,000 in additional local receipts (against $5.6 million actual in FY17), $100,000 from a corrected $7.7 million health insurance line, about $200,000 in school bus parking tied to the River's Edge timetable, and $50,000 returned to Recreation from beach receipts. Members said they would not reopen last year's added police and fire positions, calling the request "a totally defensible budget." Separately, the board voted unanimously to join the Regional Housing Services Office with Concord and six other towns for a four-month, $4,100 contract scaling to roughly $30,000 through FY19, and appointed Keurig Green Mountain marketing executive Ryan Scott to the Economic Development Committee. Staff will seek a $75,000 reserve fund transfer to cover a legal budget that has already obligated $186,000 of $200,000.