There will be no do-over on a City Council vote that gives City Manager Thomas Ambrosino the ability to negotiate changes to the city’s group health insurance plan. In a controversial vote earlier this month, the Council approved the request…
Author: Adam Swift
Abeyta is School Committee Choice for Superintendent
In the end, it was a unanimous vote by the School Committee to enter into negotiations with Almudena Abeyta as the next superintendent of schools, although it took a handful of votes to reach that decision. The Committee met Thursday,…
City Budget Request Submitted and Sits at $181.5 Million
City Manager Thomas Ambrosino presented a city budget just short of $181,500,000 for Fiscal Year 2020 to the City Council Monday night. The proposed budget funds city expenditures at $86,095,981 and the schools at $95,391,784 for a total budget of…
In Contentious Vote, Council Votes to Allow Change to Insurance
Current and former municipal employees crowded into Monday night’s City Council meeting as the council took up a vote to allow City Manager Thomas Ambrosino to negotiate changes to the city’s group health insurance policies. Most of those employees did…
10 Weeks: Bumping and Grinding Not Part of Latino Culture, Commissioners Say
The City’s Licensing Commission might want to consider making its public hearings adults’ only affairs. At its Thursday, May 2, meeting, the commission handed down a 10-week liquor license suspension to Latinos Falcons at 185 Broadway after police showed a…
A Good Start – Community Preservation Recommends Five Projects in First Round of Funding
Rehabbing historic monuments and buildings and establishing a community garden are among the first projects the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) will be recommending to the City Council during their initial pilot round of Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding. Monday night,…
Improving Issues Congresswoman Pressley Visits Chelsea To Talk about Transportation Equity
At a packed house in the GreenRoots office Tuesday night, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said she would use her legislative power to help improve issues of transportation inequity for her constituents. The Chelsea Transit Equity Roundtable was one of a series…
Chelsea Walk Pub Hit With Long Suspension
After viewing multiple surveillance videos of patrons falling off stools, being overserved, urinating in public, getting groped, and laid out on the sidewalk by the front door after closing time, the Licensing Commission last week suspended the Chelsea Walk Pub’s…
License Commission Approves License for Carnival at Chelsea Commons
The carnival is coming to Chelsea. On Wednesday, April 3, the Licensing Commission approved a four-day license for New Hampshire-based Fiesta Shows to hold a four-day carnival on the Chelsea Commons this spring. During the short public hearing to approve…
City Looking to Take Water & Sewer Work In-house, Save $350k Annually
The City could soon be running its own Water and Sewer Department as part of the Department of Public Works. Currently, Chelsea outsources those water, sewer, and drainage services to R.H. White Construction Company as part of a 10-year contract…