Four Chelsea Boards Met Tuesday Night. One of Them Was Recorded
A thirty-year solar contract, the sidewalk repair money, old unpaid bills and the text of the city charter. Three of the four…
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Chelsea Spent Two Thirds of a $32 Million Windfall. The Last $4.5 Million Went to the Schools
A third was never spent. A third bought the capital plan in cash. The last $4,495,000 went to Chelsea Public Schools, and…
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The $53,000 Denver Trip to the All-America City Awards, Line by Line
Thirty delegates, four nights at the Grand Hyatt, $12,000 in airfare, $7,245 in private donations, and a fourth All-America City banner. The…
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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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