Wayne L. Davis

Barre City - Wayne L. Davis, 65, of Short Street, died on October 30, 2020 at Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin. Born on September 8, 1955 in Barre City, he was the son of the late Lewis T. and Mae T. (Barcomb) Davis. He attended Barre City Schools, graduated from Spaulding High School in 1973 and continued on at Paul Smith College in New York state. In July 1978 he started work at the Vermont Agency of Transportation as an Engineering Aide. Over the years Wayne held many different positions at VTrans, but his real passion was overseeing the state municipal park and ride grant program. He tried very hard to keep the grant application process, from beginning to end, as simple and non-bureaucratic as possible so that municipalities could obtain funds to start and/or upgrade their projects. He understood the reasoning and value (pre-requisites for Wayne getting behind anything) in the park and ride lots and had no problem telling a neighboring property owner "No, you can't sell your used car out of the...