Boston Globe 3/6/11: Wayland override would pay for new fields, updated technology at schools. Wayland residents will be asked to borrow $880,000 this year to build new grass playing fields and update technology in the schools, but the projects won’t increase their tax bills. Town officials said that property tax bills taxes will go down by an average of $20 even if the borrowing request is approved. The Board of Selectmen voted Monday night to approve placing a debt-exclusion override question on this spring’s ballot. The question asks residents to support borrowing $880,000 over an eight-year period to pay for two all-purpose athletic fields at the middle school, a feasibility study for playing fields at other recreational sites in town, and technology in the schools including laptops and servers, said Town Administrator Fred Turkington.

2/24/10: No override expected, but residents to vote on capital items. Wayland residents will not be asked to approve an override for fiscal 2011 due to a healthy reserve of free cash and ambulance receipts used to balance the town operating budget of $58.8 million recommended by the Finance Committee. This marks the second year in a row without an override request. A $610,000 deficit in the operating budget will be filled by taking $250,000 from free cash and $360,000 from ambulance receipts. However, voters will be asked to approve $2.35 million in capital items at the polls and at Town Meeting in May that will cause a temporary increase in the tax rate. Finance Committee Chairman Sam Peper presented the proposed FY11 budget at a public hearing on Monday.

FinCom's Budget Presentation from February 22 is available online here.

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