Chelsea’s Free Cash Went From $32.4 Million to $5 Million in One Year. Here Is Where It Went
Four years of growth, then snow, FEMA, a $10 million move to stabilization and a $2.5 million draw to balance the budget.…
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A Rental Car Lot on Marginal Street Is One of the Biggest Reasons Chelsea Has Free Cash. The City Just Paid It $745,000
Every car on the Enterprise lot is a Chelsea excise bill. The lease runs to 2045, the city reimbursed $745,000 of paving,…
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City Hall’s $1.25 Million Attic Expansion Quietly Died. The Money Went to a Teen Center, a Rooftop AC and a Police Locker Room
A capital line survived two budgets and vanished in a paragraph. The teen center is a good use. The question is how…
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Two Chelsea Union Contracts, One Pattern: 3 Percent a Year, and a $225-a-Month Car Allowance for Managers
About $690,000 for the clerical unit and $1.02 million for managers over three years. The number every open contract will be measured…
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Snow Blew a $950,000 Hole in Chelsea’s Budget, and the City Budgets $104,260 for It Again. A Snow Melter Would Cost $900,000
Cities budget snow low on purpose because the law lets them overspend it. That works with $32 million in free cash. It…
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One Chelsea Home in Six Is Subsidized. Only Boston and Holyoke Have a Higher Share
16.68 percent, behind Boston's 21.54 and Holyoke's 19.44. The number cuts both ways in every housing argument the city is having.
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A Senior Tax Freeze Died in a Chelsea Subcommittee 1-1-1 Because One Councillor Was Told He Had a Conflict. Nobody Said What It Was
Brown yes, one no, Robinson present on the Solicitor's advice. If the advice was that councillors who would qualify cannot vote, the…
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Chelsea Homeowners Can Now Build an Accessory Dwelling Unit by Right. Here Is What the Ordinance Allows
Basement, attic, addition or backyard cottage, by right, with a building permit. The catch in Chelsea is the size of the lot.
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The Council Rezoned West Chelsea for 12-Story Towers. The Planning Board Asked It to Rename the Neighborhood for the People Who Were Displaced
FAR 7.0, 12 stories, no parking minimums, 10 percent affordable, on the ground the 1973 fire cleared. And a naming condition nobody…
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The Council Gave the City 90 Days to Write an Anti-Displacement Plan for Seniors and Disabled Residents. The 90 Days Are Up
A deadline is the council's way of making a request measurable. This one ran out in the year the council rezoned the…
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