Wayland Patch 4/24/13: Selectmen Consider Funding Options, Next Steps to Move DPW Project Forward. Joe Doucette told selectmen and others Monday night that the conditions at the town’s current Department of Public Works garage are “repulsive, dangerous and inexcusable.” No one argued with the assessment. At issue is exactly how to handle the situation given that funding for a new facility failed to pass at Wayland’s Annual Town Meeting. Doucette is the senior foreman with the DPW and served as the representative speaker for Teamsters Union 170, which filed a grievance with the town on April 8, just hours after voters failed to pass an Annual Town Meeting article appropriating funds for a new DPW facility at the site of the current salt shed on River Road. Two additional grievances, filed on behalf of Stephen Kadlik and Michael Lindeman, outline similar complaints and corrective actions as the teamsters’ grievance.

Wayland Town Crier 4/24/13: Wayland DPW workers outline grievances over aging garage. Department of Public Works employees detailed their complaints about working conditions at the 80-year-old DPW garage, with the Board of Selectmen and the Personnel Board on Monday night. The workers filed formal grievances on April 8 after Town Meeting’s vote to stall progress on a proposed new $11.4 million DPW facility, to replace the current garage at 195 Main St.

Wayland Town Crier 4/25/13: Back to drawing board for new Wayland DPW facility. Following the Town Meeting vote to withhold funding for a new Department of Public Works facility, various town boards addressed current conditions and attempted to move the project forward on Monday night. Town Administrator Fred Turkington believes there is broad support for the new facility throughout town. Most of the comments at Town Meeting concerned the site, he said. “If there were a sense of direction, we would need to set that in motion by mid-June to be ready for a special Town Meeting in the fall,” he said. With 64 percent of Town Meeting attendees voting to support the project, Selectman Joe Nolan said the story is not much different from the early votes on the new Wayland High School.
Wayland Town Crier 4/24/13: Wayland DPW workers outline grievances over aging garage. Department of Public Works employees detailed their complaints about working conditions at the 80-year-old DPW garage, with the Board of Selectmen and the Personnel Board on Monday night. The workers filed formal grievances on April 8 after Town Meeting’s vote to stall progress on a proposed new $11.4 million DPW facility, to replace the current garage at 195 Main St.