Wayland Town Crier 7/1/12: Tough sell for regional dispatch centers. A new report encourages eight towns to regionalize their public safety dispatches, increasing efficiency and potentially saving money in the long-term. But police and fire officials in those towns are not sold on the idea, and several said they don’t plan to pursue the report’s proposal any further. At a presentation last month, the consensus among public safety representatives from Acton, Boxborough, Concord, Lincoln, Maynard, Sudbury, Wayland and Weston was the plan to create one or two centralized dispatch facilities would be unfeasible, said Boxborough Police Chief Warren Ryder.

Boston Globe 1/2/12: Hopkinton, Ashland consider merging fire departments amid ongoing budget crunch. Wayland is exploring how to locate a regional compressed natural gas fueling station in town that would also serve Framingham, Lincoln, Natick, and Sudbury.

Since September 28, 2010, the Town of Sudbury and the Town of Wayland have conducted a pilot weekday project to allow residents of either town…

Wayland Patch 4/14/11: Sudbury Selectmen Reject Shared Transfer Station with Wayland. The Board of Selectmen voted not to approve a consolidated Sudbury/Wayland transfer station, laying to rest an issue that has caused an impassioned response by residents, a number of whom reiterated their objections to the possibility at Tuesday night’s Board meeting. In a public hearing that was a continuation of comments made by residents at the last Board meeting, attendees cited reasons against a combined station ranging from inconvenience to perceived poor management of the Wayland station, and urged the Board to make a motion against station consolidation.

Wayland Town Crier 4/13/11: Sudbury rejects plans to merge transfer station with Wayland. The Sudbury Board of Selectmen Tuesday determined that the minimal cost savings to merge the transfer station with Wayland would not be worth what Sudbury would lose in terms of quality. By a 2-0 vote, with Chairman John Drobinski absent, the board decided to end the eight-month experiment, effective July 1, and possibly sooner if Wayland agrees. Last September, Wayland and Sudbury instituted a joint pilot project, with the intent to save money, allowing residents from both towns to use the transfer station in either town on different days. The stations are located within a quarter of a mile of each other. There were some surprises. Wayland commingles its recycled items. In Sudbury, they must be sorted. Bulky waste also differed. Sudbury charges $32 per cubic yard for bulky waste for items such as carpeting, furniture, building debris, tires, and refrigerators. Wayland has a one-time fee of $40 for bulky items. Wayland residents also liked the quality of items they found at Sudbury’s Put & Take. Sudbury also gives a senior discount; Wayland does not.

Wayland Patch 3/31/11: Regional Dispatch Center Feasibility Study Moves Forward. The Sudbury Police Department this week announced that a Pennsylvania company has been unanimously chosen to finish a study on the feasibility of combining dispatch functions for Sudbury, Wayland, Weston, Acton, Boxborough, Concord and Lincoln.

Wayland Town Crier 3/30/11: Sudbury picks firm for multi-town dispatch center feasibility study. L.R. Kimball of Ebensburg, Pa., has been selected to complete the feasibility study for a regional dispatch center for police and fire in Sudbury, Wayland, Lincoln, Weston, Acton, Concord, Maynard and Boxborough. Kimball is a professional services firm that provides project design and planning in architecture, civil and environmental engineering and communication technology services. The work will be paid for with a $150,000 grant Sudbury received from the State Emergency Telecommunications Board.