Chelsea’s Trash Fee Is Up 8 Percent and the Water Bill Is Up $26. If You Own the Home You Live In, the Trash Increase Is Zero
The full rate table, what is driving it, and the one line that decides whether any of it reaches you.
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Chelsea Owed Eversource $48,407 in Bills Some of Which Had Been Unpaid for Over a Decade
Street lights, park lights and city buildings. The lights stayed on while the balance grew, and the record does not say who…
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Chelsea Lost the $50 Million to Build Its Flood Barrier. It Is Still Buying the Land, Including a Bank
A $287,643 taking at the marina, a bank branch bought and leased back for the value of its property tax, and no…
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The Forbes Property Sold to Mass Audubon for $8.36 Million, and Chelsea Gets Back Over $1 Million in Unpaid Taxes
One of the city's longest vacancies has a buyer. The conservation group's plan for the site is attached to the council packet,…
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One Councillor Has Missed 20 of the Council’s 48 Roll Calls This Year. Nobody Else Has Missed Ten
Six of 14 meetings, 20 of 48 roll calls, a late arrival and early exit on budget night, and a subcommittee that…
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How Chelsea’s Eleven Councillors Have Actually Voted in 2026. The Record, Councillor by Councillor
All but three roll calls this year were unanimous. Here is who filed what, who was missing, where the three splits fell,…
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Roberto Jimenez-Rivera in 2026: 31 Orders, Zero Dissents, and an Agenda of His Own Under the President’s
Separating the President from the councillor: ADUs, the West Chelsea overlay, the ICE Out petition, the rules rewrite, and a perfect attendance…
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Norieliz DeJesus in 2026: 40 Orders, 37 of Them Money, and No Votes on Housing Nobody Else Cast
The finance chair who votes the money through and saves her dissents for housing policy.
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Giovanni Recupero in 2026: 21 Orders, Seniors, Statues, Oversight, and a Zoning Change Rejected Twice
Seniors, statues, stop signs and a running audit of City Hall. And the only yes votes on his own zoning were his…
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Leo Robinson in 2026: Ten Questions for the Administration and a Consistent No on Deeper Affordability
Forbes, the Soldiers' Home, the quiet zone, Market Basket. And on every split vote, the more cautious side.
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