Wayland’s Board of Selectmen Monday night unanimously voted Tom Fay as the new chair and Susan Pope as the new vice chair.

Fay, who served as vice chair under outgoing chair Steve Correia, said he was pleased to accept the new position.

“It’s an honor serving on this board, and it’s an increased honor serving as chair,” Fay said. “This is a terrific board, each one of you works hard, is very diligent. I appreciate your support, and I’ll do my best.”

Pope, a former chair of the board, likewise expressed her enthusiasm for accepting a greater responsibility on the board.

In the recent town elections, the two incumbent selectmen running, Joe Nolan and Correia, were both re-elected. The composition of the board, therefore, remains the same though selectmen will decide this week whether they want to switch some of their liaison responsibilities to other town committees and boards or maintain the portfolio assignments they currently have.

Town Administrator Fred Turkington said an updated liaison list will be posted on the Town of Wayland website as soon as possible.

In other business, selectmen heard from Planning Board member Colleen Sheehan and Planning Board associate member Alan Reck regarding the desire to form a working group to draw up and vet design guidelines for the town.

The guidelines, Sheehan explained, would serve as a reference or jumping off point for developers and businesses to be able to quickly gauge design requirements in the town. She stressed that these are not bylaws, but are merely guidelines intended to be “advisory in nature.”

Additionally, “We’re recommending that the working group make a suggestion for the process moving ahead,” Sheehan said, adding that in an ideal situation a current Wayland business associate would come forward to be a member of the group. “It needs to be something … that promotes economic development."

The guidelines are intended to facilitate developers' consideration of coming to Wayland, but Sheehan said they will also benefit residents in that they will create aesthetic qualifications.

Once the working group comes up with some guidelines, and “vet[s] them in public forums,” the working group would pursue the task of establishing a process for utilizing the design guidelines.

The call for residents willing to serve on the design guidelines working group will be issued soon.