Steven P. Klitgord (incumbent)
I am running for reelection to Wayland’s Board of Assessors. Elected to the Board two years ago, I find that working with our excellent professional staff and my fellow board members fits well with my love of analyzing information. Our professional staff already maintains a range of information on the town’s website, and I enjoy spending time working with them to make it even more useful.
I currently represent the Board of Assessors on Wayland’s Senior Tax Relief Committee that seeks ways to reduce the financial burden property taxes placed on our town’s seniors. This includes informing seniors of existing state and local programs that are underutilized as well as identifying new opportunities.
I was born in 1947, the 3rd of three children. Growing up in Lima, a village of 1,200 south of Rochester, NY, I was strongly influenced by my parents’ belief that it was their civic duty to be engaged in the life of a village. It was never acceptable to sit back and just complain if something wasn’t working well.
I studied at the University of Rhode Island where I graduated with a BS in Chemistry and Zoology in 1969 followed by a MA in International Studies in 1971.
After a couple of years as a management analyst at the Department of Commerce in Washington DC, I moved to Holland where I found a position in inventory management at Honeywell’s international warehouse outside of Amsterdam.
I returned to America after 3 years and took a position as a financial analyst at Environmental Research & Technology, an environmental consulting company. Over my 25 years with ERT I took on varied financial roles, eventually becoming Vice President responsible for most of the company’s financial operation. The development of a project management information system that served our consultants’ information needs for over 20 years better than any other product commercially available was probably my single proudest achievement.
I retired from business in 2000 and turned my attention to other endeavors. For a decade I worked as a volunteer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts on the Giza Project in the Egyptian Department, became interested in genealogy, and found pleasure in traveling to archaeology sites around the world.
I married Judy Ling in 1995, and we have enjoyed 30 years together. Both Judy and I love living in Wayland, have acquired wonderful friends here, and find pleasure in contributing when we can to the community.
