The Town Side
Since its inception, WaylandTransparency has been focused on the school side of Wayland's government. However, we've been receiving an increasing number of requests to provide information and documents that are related to the lack of transparency in the town as a whole. While our main efforts for the time being will continue to be on the schools, we have, as a courtesy begun to create some pages for those interested in the town side.
These two links represent the humble beginnings of our Townside pages:
4.14.2011 ~ No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
According to WVN, though he later apologized, BOS Chair "Correia called Donna Bouchard on Saturday, two days after she spoke at Town Meeting, and demanded that she resign from (Town Meeting Procedures Subcommittee), Bouchard said, for "conduct unbecoming a member of the committee."
This is an interesting choice of words from Corriea, as he was caught on tape last summer when he and 3 other board members appear to be breaking the Open Meeting Law in a pre-meeting, as they huddled together and whispered to each other about which candidates they should appoint to town positions. Click here for WayCam clip.
However, here is a video of Mr. Correia at Ask The Candidates on March 29, explaining that the Selectmen have never once broken the Open Meeting Law.
And yet here is a Town Crier article 3 months earlier by Mike Wyner saying they have.
Older Documents:
BOS Policies ~ BOS OML Violation Caught on Tape
More to come....