League of Women Voters of Wayland
To promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of Wayland citizens in government and to act on selected governmental issues.
The League of Women Voters and the Wayland Free Public Library hosted Run For It: The Town Office Experience in October, 2025. We talked with three elected officials on running for office–why they chose to do this and what their experiences have been. Watch the video and decide for yourself! Here is the link: Run For It: The Town Office Experience
Special thanks to our guests Erin Gibbons (Wayland School Committee), Doug Levine (Wayland Select Board), and Anette Lewis (Wayland Planning Board)!
The League of Women Voters of Wayland is a co-sponsor of the reading of Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July speech, “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?” It will be held at the Wayland Free Public Library on July 1st at 7pm.
If you would like to read a line or two of the speech, please email Courtney Michael at the library, cmichael@minlib.net. Otherwise please register (07/01/2025 | Reading Frederick Douglass Together | Wayland Free Public Library) and plan to attend the reading.
UPDATED LINK: Town Meeting Issues Forum: Wednesday, March 26, 7pm
The League of Women Voters of Wayland will hold a public forum on some of the major issues to be discussed and voted on at Annual Town Meeting. The hybrid forum will be held in the Wayland Public Library on Wednesday, March 26th at 7pm. Articles included are the Accessory Dwelling Unit Bylaw, the pre-order food pick-up window bylaw, the transfer of 212 Cochituate Road, green burial, creation of a capital improvement committee, the sports center and feasibility study at 195 Main Street, the energy revolving fund, banning second generation rodenticide, creation of a finance department, and the library millennium fund. Iryna Priester will moderate the discussion.
To join the meeting virtually, please use this Zoom link: Zoom Link: https://wayland-ma-us.zoom.us/j/82622238840?pwd=bCqgebRsFrbdhMbWLPsVSs7a8bs2pV.1
Meet the Candidates: March 30, 2025 from 3:00-4:30 Wayland Public Library
There are no contested races for the 2nd year in a row. In lieu of our traditional Candidates’ Night, the League of Women Voters will be co-hosting with the Wayland Public Library a “Meet the Candidates Event.” The event will be held on Sunday, March 30th from 3:00 to 4:30 PM in the round room of the Wayland Public Library. It will be an informal gathering, with no speeches or presentations. The public is invited and encouraged to drop-in and meet the future office holders of the Town of Wayland. This is your opportunity to share any ideas and/or concerns with them.
The League of Women Voters of Wayland has created a Voters’ Guide of the 2025 candidates for Town office to help inform voters. See the whole guide below (updated on March 15, 2025)!
Wayland has hired a consultant to conduct an equity assessment to learn how we are doing as a community in making people who live and work here feel welcome. To better understand how people feel, the consultants are asking residents to participate in a survey. The hope to get as many as 2,000 responses—an ambitious goal! The survey link is below. Please take a few minutes to answer the survey questions and forward the link to your Wayland neighbors and friends and ask them to respond as well.
COMMUNITY SURVEY
The Town of Wayland has launched a Community, Culture, and Belonging Survey. The goal is to understand the experiences of community members including those who live, work, worship and/or have children who learn within the Wayland Community.
The Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation is the external research team leading this project. Everything gathered in this survey is anonymous.
• Anyone 18 or older who lives, works, learns and worships, and/or has children who learn in Wayland is encouraged to take the survey.
• The survey takes 5 to 10 minutes and will remain available until October 31, 2024.
• You only need to complete this survey once.
To participate in the survey, please click this link: https://daw.checkboxonline.com/wayland
If you have any questions, would like assistance or need an accommodation to complete the survey, please contact execasst@wayland.ma.us or call 508-358-3621. https://www.wayland.ma.us/sites/g/files/vyhlif9231/f/news/tow_community_culture_and_belonging_survey.pdf
In addition to the survey, The Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation team will be leading listening sessions for community members to share your experiences in the Town of Wayland.
You can register for one of the listening sessions by clicking here or by using the QR Code on the flyer below.
To participate in the survey, please click this link: https://daw.checkboxonline.com/wayland
NewTV (Newton TV) and the League of Women Voters of the Acton area, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Boston-Cambridge, Brookline, Concord-Carlisle, Harvard, Lexington, Newton, Sudbury, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston co-sponsored a forum with the candidates for the Governor’s Council 3rd District. This candidates forum was recorded by NewTV and is available here: Ward 3 Governor’s Council Forum.
The LWV solicited questions from residents about the issues and questions they believed were important to ask the candidates. Questions were appropriate for all candidates for the specific office and were concise in their one to two sentence length. While the moderator was not able to ask every question as written, she did try to cover all the topics recommended by the public in the time allocated for the forum.
This forum was a collaboration between NewTV and all the local Leagues of Women Voters of the Governor’s Council 3rd District . For more information, please email GCd3questions@gmail.com
Go to VOTE411.org and fill in your address to see who will be on your ballot in the upcoming primary election on September 3rd!
Wayland Town Meeting will begin on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 6:45 pm in the Wayland High School Field House. If more time is needed, the meeting will continue on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.
To see the warrant articles that will be voted on as well as other Town Meeting information, please click here: Wayland Town Meeting 2024.
The new 2024 LWVW Voters’ Guide is now available! Click on LWVW 2020 Voters’ Guide for info on all the candidates in Wayland’s upcoming Town election!
There are two new forums organized by proponents of two articles. These are not sponsored or organized by the League of Women Voters, but we are sharing the information so that voters can be more informed before Town Meeting.
NEW FORUM on Article 27: Tuesday, April 23rd, at 7pm on Article 27, Retail Self Storage and Community Space Zoning, held in St. Zepherin Parish Hall, 99 Main Street
NEW FORUM on the MBTA Communities Zoning Article: Wednesday, April 24th, at 7pm: a forum on the MBTA Communities Multi-family Housing Zoning Article, held in the Large Hearing Room, sponsored by the Select Board and the Planning Board. They encourage people to come in person, but if you prefer, you can join by Zoom using the following link, posted the day of the public forum: https://www.wayland.ma.us/public-body-meeting-information-virtual-inperson-and-hybrid
The two forums below are organized by the League of Women Voters of Wayland:
NEW DATE, Only on Zoom: Town Meeting Issues Forum on Thursday, May 2, 7 pm at the Wayland Public Library on Zoom ONLY: The League of Women Voters of Wayland will hold a public forum on some of the major issues to be discussed and voted on at Annual Town Meeting. Articles included are the MBTA Communities Bylaws and Zoning Map; Special Education Stabilization Fund; Fire Department Staffing Study, Energy and Climate articles; Community Preservation Act articles; and four petitioner articles: Retail Self Storage, resolution regarding the State Flag, Solar Compact Development, and Athletic Fields Planning Committee. Audience members will be able to ask questions of the presenters. Nancy Brumbach will moderate the discussion.
Join the Zoom Meeting
https://wayland-ma-us.zoom.us/j/85744781610?pwd=ET5rEW7dMutUwhgNaafaECOmxqk4PI.1
Meeting ID: 857 4478 1610
Passcode: 915862
Meet the Candidates on Sunday, May 5, 3 to 4:30 pm, in the Round Room in the Wayland Public Library: Since there are no contested elected positions this year, residents are invited to come to the Wayland Public Library for an informal meet, greet, and ask questions of the candidates. Refreshments will be served. Thanks to the library for co-hosting this event!
League of Women Voters of Wayland 