Votes at a glance: Wayne approves minutes, adds school consultant warrant article, amends LRC utilities

The Town of Wayne select board and budget committee recorded the following formal actions on April 14 at the Lead Recreation Center:

Approved minutes - Motion to accept the March 10 minutes: approved (unanimous recorded vote). - Motion to accept the March 24 minutes: approved (unanimous recorded vote).

New warrant/article motions - Motion approved to add a consulting services line and to include a separate warrant article asking voters to appropriate $25,000 for a Wayne Elementary School consultant. The committee agreed this should be a discrete warrant item so voters can act on it directly.

Appropriations and budget totals - Select board moved and passed a motion to adopt the draft appropriation totals discussed at the meeting (figure referenced in discussion). Staff will reconcile final line‑item numbers before printing the warrant.

Lad Recreation Center adjustment - Motion carried to amend the Lad Rec Center utilities line to add a building monitoring contract, increasing that line from 13,160 to 14,360. This expense was previously funded by the LRC and will now appear under town land & buildings utilities.

Other votes and procedural steps - The committee agreed to move many outside agencies to individual warrant line items (not a lump sum) and to prepare transfer warrant articles to move historic, donated balances from undesignated reserves into named reserve accounts (for LRC courts, tennis courts, aging‑at‑home programs).

Next procedural steps - Treasurer to verify final numbers and assign account codes; warrant language to be submitted for legal review; target date to finalize the warrant packet is the May meetings (May 5 noted as a key working date). The warrant must be certified for posting by the first select board meeting in June.

The meeting adjourned after scheduling follow‑up and confirming the next meetings.