Wayland capital committee will review $200,000 Holiday Road study article

WAYLAND -- March 18, 2026, Wayland's Capital Improvement Planning Committee will recommend on a $200,000 Holiday Road feasibility study after the article's scope grew. Chair Kelly Lappin said the Select Board's March 16 vote to add potential school and recreation uses, and to make the School Committee a co-sponsor, brought the 13-acre Holiday Road and Orchard Lane parcel inside the town's capital bylaw. "We think it's capital," Lappin said, deferring a vote to April 14 and inviting Select Board Chair Carol Martin and member Bill Whitney to attend. Members questioned whether the $200,000, the balance in the town's Receipts Reserved for Sale of Real Estate Fund, reflects a real scope. Separately, the Finance Committee approved a revised fiscal 2027 capital budget removing a $2.5 million high school baseball field request, cutting road reconstruction by $400,000 and pulling a $500,000 Middle School HVAC project into fiscal 2027. The committee approved its March 4 minutes 4-0.