Category: Town of Wayland Info

Town Meeting Issues Forum for Wayland 2026 ATM

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The League of Women Voters of Wayland hosted its annual Town Meeting Issues Forum on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, to help voters learn about the items to be discussed and voted on at Wayland’s Annual Town Meeting (ATM). Below, you can choose to link to the video, the audio only, and/or the written transcript of the forum.

Special thanks to Miranda Jones for hosting the meeting on Zoom for us!

Annual Town Meeting Issues Forum on Zoom, April 29th, 7 pm

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The League of Women Voters of Wayland will hold its annual Town Meeting Issues Forum on Wednesday, April 29th.  We are grateful to Miranda Jones, our Town Moderator, for hosting us on Zoom.  She will talk about the use of the Consent Calendar and Abbreviated Presentation Procedures; she has made some changes to the Consent Calendar for this meeting.  This will be followed by presentations of articles 15 and 16, Wayland’s Long-Term Water Supply and 25 Holiday Road Study, and several other articles.  Please join us and bring your questions.

The Zoom program will begin at 7pm.  The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4601807143?pwd=Z1B4a1VueC9TMk5SN0RjbkppTmFvZz09&omn=88192449500

Run For It: The Town Office Experience

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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)!

Join the reading of “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglas, July 1st, Wayland Public Library

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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. 

Reading Frederick DouglasDownload

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.

Get ready for 2025 Town Elections and Town Meeting!

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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.

Community, Culture, and Belonging Survey and Listening Sessions for the Town of Wayland

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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

Community, Culture, and Belonging Survey Upcoming Listening Sessions

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.  

  • Who: Anyone 18 or older who lives, works, learns or worships in Wayland, or has children in Wayland schools is encouraged to participate in one of these upcoming listening sessions. You only need to participate in one session.
  • Time: Each session is 60 minutes.

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 

Watch Governor’s Council (District 3) Forum Online!

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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