Todd Taylor lost two elections before he won one, and then won his first term by 19 votes. He took the District 1 seat covering Prattville in November 2019 and was sworn in on 6 January 2020.
The staffing business
Taylor owns KSM, a hospitality staffing firm. He has described working his way up into the management of the company and becoming its owner within three years, and he has run it for around two decades.
He is married to Regina Taylor, and they have two children, Finn and Alanna. They live in Prattville. Before the council he served five years on the city’s Planning Board, and he has served as president of the Rotary Club.
The party question
Taylor’s stated position is that national politics do not belong in City Hall. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee and a state committeeman, and in 2022 he ran for state representative in the newly drawn 11th Suffolk District, covering Chelsea and Ward 2 in Everett, as a Republican. He lost that general election in November 2022.
Those two facts sit together and readers should have both. A Republican committeeman is a party official. His argument is not that he lacks politics; it is that a city council is the wrong venue for them.
The clearest test came in March 2020, when the council voted to reaffirm Chelsea’s status as a sanctuary city. Taylor voted against it, and said his reason was not immigration: he would vote against any partisan issue brought before the council whether or not he personally agreed with it. In a city that is roughly 70 per cent immigrant, that vote was read by many as a position on immigration regardless of how he framed it.
On his state campaign he said “I will always vote my conscience,” and described himself as “the only candidate in this race who is unconnected to other interests.”
Parking, and then everything parking touches
When he canvassed District 1, he found almost nobody in Prattville failed to raise parking. It has been a defining district issue for him.
Prattville is also named in one of the two zoning amendments the council president introduced in June 2026, covering the Fitzpatrick-Prattville Smart Growth Overlay District. Smart growth overlays allow denser housing in defined areas in exchange for state incentives. In a district where parking is the first complaint at every door, added density is not abstract.
The housing argument, and the process complaint
Taylor supported loosening Chelsea’s inclusionary zoning rules, and his reason was arithmetic. In the April debate he said: “We cannot continue the level of spending that we have, the level of services we provide to people, if we don’t have the money to do it.”
He also pushed on who was being consulted, arguing later that month for hearing from “everyday, regular folks” rather than only established advocacy organizations, whether they owned or rented.
Then, at the final vote on 25 June, he said: “I agree with many of the people who spoke tonight about this process being a complete and utter embarrassment.”
He voted against Deron Hines’s amendment, which passed 6 to 5 and replaced the flat 50-unit threshold with a sliding scale from 10 units. He then joined the unanimous 11-0 vote for the ordinance as amended.
What he asks about
At the FY27 budget hearings in May he asked why crime-related incidents had risen in the annual report while every other category fell. That is the sort of question that only gets asked if somebody read the report.
The numbers
Elected in 2019, re-elected unopposed in 2021, and re-elected on 4 November 2025 with 253 votes to Christian DeJesus Franco’s 139. His term runs through 2027.
The rest of the council is in our guide to all eleven members.
Update, September 14, 2026: How this councillor has voted and what they have filed in 2026, part of our council record series.