Four Councillors Missed the August Special Meeting. The Minutes Show Who Has Been Absent All Year
The clerk's roll calls for 14 meetings in 2026, in one table. Manuel Teshe has missed six. Three councillors have missed none.
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Chelsea Owes the State’s Unemployment Agency $8,288 and a Contractor for 2020 Pipe Work. The Bills Land Tonight
A DUA past-due notice, lead pipe invoices from 2020 and 2022, a copier company that stopped sending bills, and a $50 legal…
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Chelsea Votes Tonight on Solar Deals Running 20 and 30 Years. The Dollar Terms Are Not in the Packet
Two 20-year solar agreements, one 30-year authorization the vendor's own FAQ calls 20 years, a blank terms appendix, and a $250,000 fund…
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Chelsea Wants a Chief Economic Development Officer. The Job Has No Salary Figure and No Budget Line Yet
A five-page job description, a two-page letter, no salary, no budget line, and a free cash balance headed for $5 million. The…
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Chelsea’s New Affordable Housing Rules Passed 11 to 0. The Part That Mattered Passed 6 to 5
The minutes sat unpublished for twelve weeks. They show a 6-to-5 amendment that raised the developer buyout fee to $275,000 and added…
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Chelsea’s Own Forecast Shows an $18.6 Million Deficit by 2031. The Pages Were Scanned Sideways
Balanced in 2026 and 2027, then $7.2 million short, then $12.4 million, $15.4 million, $18.6 million. We turned the pages upright and…
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A Main Broke on Shurtleff Street. Nearly Half of Chelsea’s Water Pipes Are the Kind That Do
One line from the city, three photos of a wet street, and no follow-up. What is under Shurtleff Street, and why it…
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Chelsea Bought a Building: Inside Chelsea 55, the City’s First Owned-and-Managed Affordable Housing
Six three-bedroom apartments, more than 300 applications, and a city that decided to stop waiting for developers. What Chelsea 55 tests, and…
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Chelsea Is Rewriting Its Charter and Its Master Plan at the Same Time. Here Is How to Weigh In
A nine-member committee is reviewing the 1994 charter article by article, the first master plan since 1970 is nearly done, and the…
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Could Chelsea Be Next? What Everett’s Cyberattack Means for City Hall on Broadway
A five-person IT department, dozens of software platforms, a shared 911 center coming in 2027 and a menu of free state help.…
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