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Select board directs manager to add $25,000 Wayne School consultant reserve to warrant; debate over funding approach
Summary
After extended discussion about capital reserves and consultant costs tied to RSU 38 deliberations, the Town of Wayne select board directed the town manager to add a new non-lapsing "Wayne School consultant" reserve account with $25,000 to the warrant and moved to renumber subsequent articles; the capital-reserve article vote recorded a split.
Select board members and the budget committee spent an extended portion of the meeting debating how to fund consultant work related to the town's education options and potential RSU 38 deliberations. Chair (S1) proposed directing the town manager to add a new non-lapsing reserve account and asked the board, "Do we wanna direct the town manager to add a new article 34 establishing a Wayne School consultant account as a non lapsing reserve account to pay for ..." The board agreed to add language and to have the town manager renumber the warrant accordingly.
Discussion focused on whether the $25,000 consultant line should be a one-year appropriation that could lapse or whether the town should create a reserve account (non-lapsing) so unused funds carry forward. Public commenter (S8) cautioned that actual consultant costs the commenter had seen were higher, saying, "The numbers I've seen are more like $1,575,000," and several board members noted the work would likely take more than one year. Select board members said adding a reserve account would allow the town to seed multi-year work and preserve unused funds.
The board recorded a roll-call-style vote on the capital reserve article as amended; the transcript shows a split vote on a motion (noted as 3–1) in the discussion sequence. Budget committee members also recorded support for creating the reserve account and for adding the consultant line to the capital totals. The manager noted she would add the new article language to the warrant and renumber subsequent articles before posting.
