Friday, December 28, 2012
The change would return the Wayland PD to its 2003 staffing level and would be the first roster increase in 42 years for the Wayland FD.
The police and fire chiefs in Wayland are looking ahead to a fully open Wayland Town Center and other possible developments, and they're telling the town that they will need some help. Both chiefs have requested funding in their Fiscal Year 2014 budgets for an additional person on their respective rosters. For Police Chief Bob Irving, it's a request that really just fills out a roster that took a cut in 2004 in order to allow an early retirement option for an officer with some medical concerns. At the time, Irving said, the department expected to regain that position after three years, but those three years have long since come and gone. "I am proposing a level-funded budget except that I’m replacing a position that we had," Irving …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The budget season has gotten off to a much discussed start with the Wayland Finance Committee asking town departments to consider what a 10 percent budget reduction would look like.
Schedule a meeting to discuss a possible 10 percent budget cut to Wayland schools, and you’ll likely attract a crowd too big for the meeting room. That’s what happened Monday night as residents packed shoulder to shoulder in the School Committee hearing room for a discussion between the School Committee and the Finance Committee about the recently released budget guidelines for Fiscal Year 2014. In those guidelines, the FinCom requested two operating budget submissions from all departments: A level-service budget that includes only required increases (contracted salary increases, utility increases, etc.) and a prioritized list cutting about 10 percent from the budget in order to “help mitigate the potential tax impact for residents.” But …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Wayland Finance Committee submitted the letter below.
This letter is a call to residents of Wayland to get involved in budget discussions now, and not wait until next April when we meet at Annual Town Meeting. Each year at this time the Wayland Finance Committee sets out financial guidelines for various Town departments and the School committee (the “Departments”) to follow as they begin to construct their budgets for next fiscal year. On Oct. 3, we completed our deliberations regarding the guidelines for the fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014). On Oct. 4, we sent our guidelines letter to the Departments (a copy of the budget guideline letter can be viewed on the Finance Committee website at: www.wayland.ma.us/Pages/WaylandMA_Finance/index). To be clear, at this point we do not …
Richard P Turner
9:01 pm on Friday, December 28, 2012
Public Safety is a very important function and should not be reduced in any way with the latest incidents such as Sandy hook Elementry school shootings these departments should fully manned at the required levels i agree with the previous commenter that there should be two telecommunicators on duty 24x7 and DPW must be fully staffed now that we have the town center coming online and more traffic … more ›