All rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. All right. Good evening, counselors. Let's kick off the meeting with a roll um roll call. Councilor Tanari Garcia present. Councelor Jimenez River present.
Councelor Rupo here. Council Taylor here. Councelor Robinson here. Council Tesher here. Council Kelly Garcia present. Councelor Santigette present. Council Vega. Councelor Brown present. And councelor Davis present. 10 members
present. You have a quorum madam president. Thank you clerk. Um council Vegas present. Councelor Vega just arrived. Um okay, full house. Um memoriams and celebratory resolutions. Our sole resolution is a resolution
introduced by the council president and all members for LGBTQ plus pride month. Whereas during LGBTQ pride month celebrated annually in the month of June, we recognize the determination and resilience of individuals who are fighting to live freely and
authentically and affirm our obligation to uphold the dignity of all people and protect the most vulnerable among us. And whereas a law enforcement raid of the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969 sparked demonstrations that served as a call to action and continue to inspire us to live up to our nation's
promise of equality, liberty, and justice for all. And whereas members of the LGBTQ plus community face disparities in education, employment, health care, housing, and many other areas central to the pursuit of happiness, while LGBTQ plus youth,
especially those of color, are at an increased risk of suicide, homelessness, bullying, violence, and human trafficking. And whereas while substantial progress has been made since Stonewall, many states do not provide protections for fundamental rights and dignity in hospitals, schools, public
accommodations, and other spaces, while many in the LGBTQ plus community face discrimination, inequality, and overt acts of violence. And whereas the city of Chelsea held its 10th annual LGBTQ plus pride flag raising on Saturday, May 31st, 2025 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in
Washington Park with music, community market, and live performances. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Chelsea City Council recognizes June 2025 as LGBTQ plus Pride Month in the city of Chelsea, acknowledging the valuable contributions of LGBTQ plus individuals across the United States and
reaffirms our commitment to standing in solidarity with LGBTQ plus Americans in their struggle against discrimination and injustice. Thank you, Cler. Is there a motion? Absolutely. You have the floor, counselor. Thank you, Madam President. I want to thank the maker of the um
resolution here. It was honor for me myself to be um in attendance on this past Saturday for the 10th anniversary. I had the opportunity also to speak on one of our um advocates and one of the persons that did a lot of work with the
LGBTQ community, um Livia Olivia Walsh. Uh it was a little windy, a little rainy out there, but we held up and we had some nice times out there. It was great to see the community come together. It's been a long time. It's um really important for us to go out and just
really support all of our community members here. We have different folks from different um walks of life. Um this is a community that we support. I feel honored to be supporting them for their right to love, who they choose to love, the dignity and respect that they they
deserve. It was a great event, great honor to be there and I look forward to committing myself um to working with them on the upcoming events throughout the years and years to come. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, councelor. Counselor Sanne. Yes, I was also able to attend as an
extremely proud ally and I just wanted to commend the LGBTQ LGBTQ plus coalition in Chelsea who organized the event along with the city and the chamber of commerce. Um there were vendors, there was entertainment
and the weather just made the event more festive and exciting. Um but we had a lovely lovely time and um Representative Garcia actually made a donation. So there was even an afterparty which was very nice. So
people came together and were able to um eat and drink together at a Chelsea business, the Brown Jug, and they hosted us very well. And the whole event was just a beautiful, beautiful afternoon and evening. So, uh, again, thanks to
everyone who made it possible because love lives in Chelsea. Thank you, councelor Councelor Brown. I mean, counselor Robinson, my apologies. No problem. I just want to uh thank uh
Star Chung and Jennifer Hassel and Matt Frank for all the work that they did put in to make Saturday a successful u program for the city of Charleston. and just publicly want to thank them for all the work that they put in to make this
happen in the city of Chelsea. Thank you, counselor. I echo the same sentiments and would just um reiterate what some of my colleagues have said. I stand as a strong supporter of the LGBTQ community and you know on a daily basis come across many constituents whether
they are youth or young adults or older folks who have stories of challenges in the past but also stories of challenges in the present. And so there's definitely work that we can do to support this community to ensure that this community in Chelsea is a
comfortable and open community for all. Um, all right. Moving on to public hearing. Anyone here for our public hearing? The first public hearing is on the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget.
You can state your name if you're here for the public hearing. No. For proposed fiscal year 2026 budget. No. Madam President, for just in case the audience doesn't know, can we just explain the difference between the public hearing and the public comment just so people understand what we're Absolutely. So for
uh for our public hearings, it's usually based on any of the motions orders that have been brought upon our uh council meetings. Um it's an opportunity for the public to give their input um whether they support, disagree, or have um
strong opinions about any of the topics that we discuss. Um, and it's uh usually prior to a vote so that our public has an opportunity to share their opinions with us counselors here. Public speaking is usually uh open to anything whether
it's tied to an agenda item, tied to a vote that's coming up um or just information that um counselors here should be aware of of things that are happening in the community. It's more of a general forum for counselors to ref uh receive feedback and information from
the public. Um okay. So we also have uh another item under public hearing. Our next public hearing is for the proposed easement and eminent domain taking of 145 Market Street and 359
Beach Street. Anyone here for that item? No. Okay. So, that closes our public hearing portion for tonight. Moving on to public speaking. All right. Seeing note takers.
Moving on to Oh, yes. Okay. All right. Public speaking. Please share your name, your address. Uh, hi. Hi. My name is Eddie Gaffne. I uh I live at um 100 commons away. I've been living in Chelsea for about 20
years now. Um I just want to go on record again saying I'm against having a seafood processing plant next to Mar the beautiful park that Chelsea has, Mariel Mali Park. Um I just don't think it's the right location for that. Um, so I
kind of did a little due diligence and I believe I have um may have found uh an example of a of a company that would be a perfect fit for um for that location. And uh I got a couple handouts. I got
um it's a it's a company called Kind Designs. It's a brand new 3D uh printed concrete seaw wall company. Um and they're looking to expand from Miami. They're a brand new company. Um Mark Cuban backed them. Um and their product
is faster to make. It's uh cost effective. It's cheaper to make because you're using less concrete. And the the way the design is, it's um it reduces the wave impact by 50%. Um, and the beautiful thing about their design and the creativity that they came up with is
um, the design also allows for um, filter feeders uh, and organisms to really attach to the seaw wall and clean the water uh, in a much faster way than you would just have a a regular seaw wall. Um, I I think it's something that um, would just be really, you know, a
great company to have in Chelsea. Um, you know, I I spoke with people in Everett, the planning manager over there, and they agreed like this is a this is a company that needs to be in in the, you know, Boston area. So, um, that's all I want to share with you guys today. Thank you. Thank you.
Anyone else here for public speaking? All right, moving on to um approval of the minutes. We have approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of the city council dated May 19th, 2025. Accept and file the comm minutes um under suspension.
There are no objections. Seeing none, thank you councelor. Moving on to uh communications from the city manager. Our first communication received from the city manager requesting council approval for department to pay prior year expense. Dear councilors, I am writing to request
approval for the city clerk department to make payments on prior year expenses using their FY25 budget. The department has been working with the Chelsea record to clean up prior year balances. There was some confusion given a large number of advertisements that are sent out and posted by the city clerk's office to the
Chelsea Record. The Chelsea Record initially sent the invoices to another city department. Madam President, move to wave the rest of reading accept and file under communication if there are no objections. Seeing no objections, councelor. Moving on. Next communication received from the
city manager regarding the fiscal year 26 PEG access and community preservation act budgets. Dear councilors, I'm writing to request approval of both the PEG access budget and the community preservation act budget for fiscal year 2026. Pursuant to Mass General Law
Chapter 40, section 53F3-4, all Comcast payments required by the 10-year Comcast renewal license are paid into our PEG access and cable related fund. In order to expend monies from this fund on behalf of the three entities that rely upon this source,
Chelsea Community Cable Television, the school department, and the city, the city council must approve an annual budget for each of these entities. I am writing now to request approval of the FY26 budgets for each of these three entities. The requested budgets are Chelsea Community Cable Television in
the amount of $229,736, Chelsea School Department in the amount of $85,000 in the city through the city manager's office in the amount of $130,000. Details on these budgets are attached. The city will utilize its funding for translation services,
part-time communication service, internet and telecommunications access to city hall service, and to support the MAPC city Chelsea Housing Authority Prattville internet access project and improvements to the city's fiber network. The school will utilize these funds for full-time communication
services. Each year, the city council must also approve the Community Preservation Act budget as adopted by the Chelsea Community Preservation Committee. The FY26 budget proposed by the Community Preservation Act committee is attached as you see the proposed CPA FY26 budget reserves for appropriation
95% of estimated revenue with 10% 10% allocated to two of the three statutory reserve accounts 20% allocated to the remaining statutory reserve and the remaining 55% allocated to the budgeted reserve account. All these accounts are subject to f future appropriation by the
city council based upon recommendations from the community preservation committee to fund certain projects. Madam President, move to wave the rest move to wave the rest of the reading accept and file under communication of there are no objections. Seeing none, thank you councelor. Moving on.
Next communication received from the city manager requesting council approval of intermunicipal agreement for the North Suffach Public Health Collaborative. Dear councilors, I'm writing to request a authorization on an updated intermunicipal agreement between the city of Chelsea, city of River, and
the town of Winthre as part of the North Suffach Public Health Collaborative. The initial North Suffach Public Health Collaborative IMA was signed in 2016. The collaboration initiating, I'd like to make a motion to postpone this vote like to kind of speak
on a little business. There's something coming up under new business. You uh have the floor, counselor. Okay. I think at the at the budget hearing I did raise this issue was in regards to the $3
million and it's actually money that's comes from Mass General that supports the MAPC uh program. and the MACP program out of the out of the $3 million 10% each year will go
to MAPC. I want to know what is the money breakdown to the other communities and I would move to postpone this vote until such time that the other communities sign on before we sign on as
Chelsea. That's my stance in regards to where I'm at. Okay, thank you counselor. Moving on to the next item. Next communication received from the city manager requesting council approval for intermunicipal agreement between the cities of Chelsea, Arlington, Everett,
and Molden to combat extreme heat. Dear councilors, I am writing to you with a request for the necessary council action to formally accept the intermunicipal agreement between the cities of Chelsea, Arlington, Everett, and Malden for the Wicked Cool, Mystic, Supa, Fresco, Mystigo, implementing residentled
outdoor cooling solutions in environmental justice neighborhoods in Everett, Molden, Chelsea, and Arlington project. You may recall that the city received funding for this project through the municipal vulnerability program action grant in FY2526. The goal of this project is to implement
community-led designs of cooling strategies in environmental justice communities. The first round of this project, Wicked Hot Mystic, was deeply focused on engaging residents about where they felt hottest. Our residents shared they wanted more cooling features at bus stops. The current phase of the
project is funded by an MVP action grant for $687,000 to pursue a two-year regional project to design and implement cooling strategies. Proposed cooling features include water fountains, misters, and shade sails. Having cooling features at bus stops is crucial for several
reasons, such as providing comfort and safety for riders, especially during heat waves, and encouraging more public transportation use. Cooling features can help mitigate heat stress, reduce the risk of heat stroke, and make waiting for the bus a more pleasant experience. Once completed, these cooling features will offer opportunities for heat
resilience and respit from rising temperatures. goals that are in alignment with the city's 2018 MVP community resilience building summary of findings. The city will complete its design and construction of cooling. Madam President, move to wave the rest of the reading accept and file under communication. If there are no
objections, I'd like to speak on it real quick. Seeing no objections, you have the floor, counselor. Yeah, I just um I'm excited to to see this uh hopefully moving forward. Uh it's really exciting to um have seen a number of the bus stops uh go up along Broadway and see
the the covered um uh areas for people to wait in. This seems like a pretty exciting uh thing to offer to folks. Uh it's going to get really hot over the summer. And uh honestly, a mist a misting fan in front of your face is one of the best things that you can do to to feel cool. So it's uh exciting for our
residents. Uh I'm sure our children are going to love it as well. So just really excited for this to to move forward. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. All right, moving on. Next communication received from the city manager regarding a lease with Enterprise Holdings LLC. Dear
counselors, I'm writing to request the city council's approval of a new lease with Enterprise Rental Car Company of Boston LLC for 324 Marginal Street based on the terms outlined in the attached request for proposal. This lease agreement will effectively extend our lease with Enterprise to the end of
fiscal year 2045 on terms that are advantageous to the city. The proposed order of approval, the request for proposal, and the original lease agreement are enclosed for your review. In 2014, following the issuance of a December 2013 RFP for the use of city-owned property at 324 Marginal
Street, the city executed a lease with Enterprise. This lease was structured as a 10-year agreement consisting of a 5-year initial term with an option for Enterprise to extend for an additional five. Enterprise utilizes the site for rental vehicle operations and in return provides excise tax payments to the
city. The parcel was located adjacent to Highland Park on the nonwater side of Marginal Street. The original RFP allowed for a lease term of up to 20 years. The city in 2017 negotiated with Enterprise to extend the lease to the full 20-year term under mutually
beneficial conditions until 2034. Recently, Enterprise has expressed a desire to expand its operations at the site by adding truck rentals, while the city seeks to secure an increase in excise tax revenue over a longer period of time. To achieve both objectives, we propose terminating the current lease
and executing a new 20-year lease that will extend through fiscal year 2045. The new lease will ensure increased guaranteed excise tax payments from Enterprise. In return, if Enterprises excise tax payments exceed the guaranteed amount, the city will reimburse Enterprise from the excess
funds for the cost of its site improvements. Upon approval, the city will see financial benefits beginning at FY26. Revenue projections will reflect the increase in excise collections outlined in the new guaranteed schedule. While budgeting expenditures will account for the additional reimbursement
stipulated in the lease. Madam President, move to um accept and file into communication of their own objections and wait the rest of the reading. Seeing no objections. Thank you, councelor. Moving on to the next item. Next communication received regarding requesting funding for structural
deficits. Dear counselors, earlier this spring, the city's finance department met with representatives from the Division of Local Services and the Department of Revenue. DLS provided a presentation that outlined resources they provide as well as historical information on Chelsea's submissions of reports and tax rate recaps. We closed
the meeting with a roadmap for the FY26 T tax tax rate submission. In this meeting, DLS also noted that Chelsea has a listing of accounts known as structural def deficits that they would like us to provide for. These accounts have deficit balances and have been inactive for at least two fiscal years.
Our auditing department has reviewed these accounts and have confirmed their status, noting that many have been inactive for at least 5 years or more. I am requesting the use of free cash to close out these deficit balances. This will allow us to clean up and close out these inactive accounts. Council order is attached for this transfer request.
Thank you for your ongoing support. Thank you, Cler. Councelor Tashi. Madam President, I move to accept and file the communication of this of the city manager if there are no objections. Um I also you know I believe there
there's a necessity for a conversation uh just to know exactly what happened and why these deficits um exist now you know who's who you know who didn't either who didn't do their job or what happened or you know how did
this come to be um and if it's just error then you know that's understandable as well it always happens um but yeah that's it thank Thank you, counselor. All right, moving on to the next item. Our final communication received from
the city manager requesting approval of appointments to boards and commissions. Dear councilors, pursuant to section 4-2 of the charter of the city of Chelsea, I'm writing to recommend the following individuals to boards and commissions in the city. Appointment to the cultural council, Miss Lily Dar of Chelsea, and
reappointment to the board of library trustees, Miss Grace Lee of Chelsea. I respectfully request your approval of these appointments. I have attached resumes for the new appointee. Madame President, I move uh this to second reading. Seeing no objections. Thank you,
counselor. Madame President. Yes. I know that we have a late order that is uh uh also appointment to a boarding commission. I'd like to move that out of order if that is possible and there are no objections just to get it all done. Thank you, counselor. It was up for debate now anyway.
Uh it's a late communication. It was up um it was up now anyway. Uh, communication received late if there are no objections to receiving the late communication. Seeing no objections, clerk. Uh, communication from the city manager requesting approval of appointment to planning board. Dear
councilors, pursuant to section 4-2 of the charter of the city of Chelsea, I'm writing to recommend the following individual to a board or commission in the city for reappointment to the planning board, Miss Jordana Mather of Chelsea for a new three-year term. I respectfully request your approval of this appointment. I have attached the resume for the appointee. Move to the
second reading. Madam President, just a couple of words. I know Miss Jordana myself. She's an amazing person. Definitely reach out to her, get to know her. Um, I think you'll definitely have a good time. Thank you, counselor. All right, moving on to
communications and petitions to the council. First communication we received to the city council comes from the community preservation committee. Dear councilors, the Chelsea Community Preservation Committee is pleased to send to the city council five recommendations for grants from the
Community Preservation Fund. At the 2016 general election, 66.5% of Chelsea voters voted to adopt the provisions of the Community Preservation Act and impose a 1.5% search charge on residential and commercial properties with exemptions for low and moderate income homeowners as well as exemption
on the first $100,000 of property value. On December 19th, 2016, the Chelsea City Council voted to establish by ordinance the Community Preservation Committee to make recommendations on expenditures authorized by the Community Preservation Act. The recommendations of the committee are sent to the council where
the amounts can be affirmed, rejected, or lowered. Funding recommendations may not Madam President, um, can we wave the reading just I I would just like for the record to read out for folks the um, descriptions of the projects on page four.
Seeing no objections, the let's proceed. Yeah. The five projects recommended for grant funding and the amounts are as follows. Uh for luck collaborative emergency housing voucher program in the amount of $100,000 for Palonia Park in the amount
of 200,000. Uh the Quinn residences in the amount of 200,000. The neighborhood developers top off rental assistance program in the amount of $100,000. and for Walnut Street Synagogue in the amount of $197,433. Thank you, clerk. Council, uh, can I
just speak on it real quick? Absolutely. You have the floor. Yeah, I just want to just really quickly uh mention that, you know, this is really going to support uh our residents in terms of uh, you know, people who need uh, rental assistance uh, and also to support environmental site assessments at Ponia Park. So, I
just think it's really um it is a good thing that we are doing by spending these funds on supporting uh some of our neediest residents. So, just excited to see it move forward. Thank you, councelor. Councelor uh Rupo. Yes, this is a great thing we're doing, but I
would like also the city to go in and advertise more on these grants, who gets these grants, because this is the taxpayers money, the CPA that the taxpayers pay. Maybe more people should go in and apply for these grants. I
believe that this should be open to more people, but the city, I don't know how the city advertises, 90% of the people don't even know that these grants exist. So, I would like to have this put out to the open where more people can apply for these grants. Thank you. Thank you,
counselor. Seeing no other comments, moving on. Final communication received to the city council comes from the planner and land use administrator on behalf of the planning board. Dear councelor Deus had a duly posted regular meeting of the planning board held
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025. The board voted unanimously to recommend that the city council adopt the Austri parking amendment as proposed. Is there a motion move to accept accept and found recommendation that there are no objections? No objection. This is not the item
itself, right? It's coming later. Okay. Moving on to committee reports. First committee report received comes from councelor Jimenez Rivera from the meeting of the city manager evaluation committee held May 14th, 2025. Councelor Himenez move to accept and file and I'd just like to give a quick update. Uh
yes, you have the floor councelor. Wonderful. So uh so this was the second half of the meeting that the evaluation committee held to discuss the city manager's performance over the past year and a half. Um we did essentially the back half of the 12 categories uh that
we are evaluating him on 10 categories if I remember correctly. Um since then uh I have drafted a uh an initial draft of the of the report. That report has been shared uh with the counselors and with the with the clerk. Um and it will be discussed at our upcoming meeting
which we are tentatively going to schedule on June 10th of next uh so that's next Tuesday of next week. um so that we can then give final ratings for each of the categories and uh send that report to the full council. Um I encourage uh all the counselors to
attend even though it is a meeting of the subcommittee. Um we would love to have everyone's input. Uh and then from there the plan is to have that final report be voted on at the council's last meeting of the month uh on the 23rd before we go on our summer break. Thank
you. Thank you counselor. Moving on to the next item. Our next item is a committee report received from the council president from the meeting of the subcommittee on conference held May 14th, 2025. This was a televised uh meeting. This
was our budget hearings. Um is there a motion on the floor? Move to accept and file under under communications committee reports. Thank you counselor. Moving on to the next item. Next committee report received comes from councel Taylor from the meeting of the subcommittee on ways and means held
May 19th, 2025. Councelor Taylor, we accept and file the committee report and uh I just like to briefly speak on it and give a summary. You have the floor, counselor. So this was the uh first of two Ways and
Means Committee uh meetings that we had. The first um item uh was uh uh a request for the city council to approve the collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the city and the teamsters local 25 representing DPW
workers. Um the the second order was to authorize a department uh to pay a prior year expense of $32,931.97 um to pay for the TND workforce development program uh that they are
contracted to manage. Uh the the third uh item was a resolution in support of the site readiness grant for the Forbes site redevelopment. And the last one was the approval of a five-year contract with Dagel Electric for quiet zone
construction. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. Counselor Brown. I want to thank the committee. Um Todd does a unique job and the way he handled things. We had this before um at two meetings ago and he wanted to bring it to subcommittee and go over the stuff
and I appreciate his work and his dilly making sure that he gets a chance and his committee to look at all these things but the these two here items that's on here that was read in today very good for the city. I would like to thank the city manager and the work what he did with the working with the union
unions to get this job done for our DPW workers here. Uh, it's a great win for the city. Something that we've been trying to get done and we finally got done and like to see it get passed tonight. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. All right, moving
on. Councelor, our final committee report is also from Council Taylor from the meeting of the subcommittee on Ways and Means held May 27th, 2025. Accept and file the committee report under suspension. If there's uh no objections and I'd like to just give a brief summary. Absolutely. You have the floor,
counselor. Thank you. Um there were several uh items under review uh in this uh ways and means uh committee meeting. The first item was an authorization for department uh to pay prior year expenses emergency management
in the amount of $2,259.75 to Verizon for phone lines. The second item uh was a $100,000 free cash to housing and commu community development contract service account for the downtown
initiative. Uh the third item was appropriation for free cash to cover salary deficits and various department salary accounts. Um uh questions regarding appropriations to emergency management. Overtime costs were
necessary in order to maintain minimum staffing levels required by state law. The the next item was um uh $14,91 from salary reserved to the legislative department regular salary
account to cover step increases and cola for both employees. The next one was appropriation from free cash to cover inadequate funding in various departments. Operating accounts uh questions regarding DPW contract
services which cover private snow plows and DPW salt account which is typically underfunded yearly and replenished with free cash if needed. Uh the next one was the reauthorization of six revolving funds that departments
are able to utilize to deposit fees received. Accounts require yearly reauthorization. Um and the last one was the reauthorization of the nonresident student tuition revolving fund. The school department charges other school
districts a fee to use Chelsea public schools special education programs. That's the conclusion of my summary. Thank you. Thank you, counselor. All right. Uh, moving on to second readings. First item under second readings, we have an order introduced by councelor
Taylor being read for the second time. Ordered that pursuant to section 4-3 L of the charter of the city of Chelsea. The Chelsea City Council hereby approves the cost items set forth in the collective bargaining agreement negotiated with Teamsters Local 25 International Brotherhood of Teamsters
covering DPW employees memorialized in the memorandum of agreement for the period July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028 dated April 22nd, 2025. Councelor Taylor, move to Ways and Means. Pardon me. Move to a roll call vote.
Pardon me. Move to a roll call vote. We've already had it. Moving to a roll call vote. Seeing no objections. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennari Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimenez Rivera.
Yes. Councelor Rupo. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Councelor Robinson. Yes. Council Tesh. Yes. Councelor Kelly Garcia. Yes. Councilor Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. And councelor Deus. Yes. All 11 members
voting in favor. Zero opposed. Order adopted. Madam President, can I speak on this real quick? Councelor um Himemenz. Yeah, I believe what was mentioned at the last meeting where we had this order is that this was the last contract that the city had outstanding. I just want to Is that correct? I just want to give us
a quick uh quick shout out to all the work that has been done in the city and you know in finishing up all of our contracts. We don't have a single contract outstanding. So, thank you everyone for all of your hard work. Yes. [Applause]
All right. Uh, moving on to the next item. Next item under second readings, we have a not introduced by council Taylor being read for the second time. Order that in accordance with Mass General Law, chapter 44, section 64, budget management procedures, whereby cost incurred in FY24 were not paid and
are owed to vendors. And to meet this obligation, funds are required from the current year FY25 budget. As noted, the Chelsea City Council authorizes the following expenditures to satisfy unpaid balances. is the total $32,931.97 from prior year as follows.
Two instances from housing and community development, two TND for workforce development program, one in the amount of $15,83.50 and one in the amount of $17,12847. Thank you, Clank. Is there a motion? Move to a roll call vote.
Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council tenario. Yes. Councelor Fennis Rivera. Yes. Councelor Rubro. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Councelor Robinson. Yes. Council Tesh. Yes. Council Kelly
Garcia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Councelor Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. And councilus. Yes. All 11 members in favor. Zero opposed. Order adopted. Thank you, Cler. Moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced
by councelor Taylor being read for the second time. Whereas land located at 1C Forb Street has been deemed a site suitable for the site readiness program administered by the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency or Mass Development. And whereas the city of Chelsea, the Massachusetts Municipal
Corporation having a mailing address of 500 Broadway, Chelsea, Massachusetts, has been awarded a site readiness recoverable grant in the amount of $150,000 from Mass Development for readiness assistance related to the site. And whereas the recoverable grant will be formalized through a grant
agreement entered into by and between the municipality and mass development and substantially the form attached here too. And whereas the municipality has agreed to repay the recoverable grant. Now therefore be it ordered that the Chelsea City Council hereby votes as follows. that if the site or any portion
thereof is sold, conveyed, gifted, demised, ground, leased, or otherwise transferred or refinanced. And as a result of said transaction, the receipt, the recipient receives funds that exceed the aggregate amount necessary for repayment of existing monetary leans, mortgage loans, and other debt on the
project and all the costs incurred by them in the acquisition, development, ownership, and sale of the site or the portion of the site transferred. Then recipient shall reimburse mass development the full amount of the net proceeds up to the amount of the recoverable grant that has been dispersed and has not already been
repaid to mass development. Thank you cler. Is there a motion? Move to a roll call vote. Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tari. Yes. Councel Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council
Rupo. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Councelor Robinson. Yes. Council Tesher. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia, yes. Councilor Santigette, yes. Council Lee Vega, yes. Council Brown, yes. And council Davis, yes. All members voting in favor, zero opposed. Order adopted.
Thank you, clerk. Moving on to the next item. Next item on the agenda, we have an order introduced by Council Taylor being read for the second time. Ordered that pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 30B section 12, the Chelsea City Council hereby approves a 5-year contract with a
Electrical Corporation for quiet zone construction for the Chelsea Public Works Department. Is there a motion on the ground? Move to roll call vote. Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennaru,
yes. Council Jimenez Rivera, yes. Council Rupo, yes. Council Taylor, yes. Councelor Robinson, yes. Council Tesher, yes. Council Kelly Garcia, yes. Councilor Santigus, yes. Council Vega, yes. Council Brown, yes. And council Dus, yes. All 11 members in favor and
zero opposed. Order reduction. Thank you, Cler. Moving on to the next item. Next item under second readings, we have an order introduced by the council president and being read for the second time regarding the fiscal year 2026 budget. Order that the following sums as classified and designated with respect
to each department or undertaking as salaries, operations, and maintenance and capital are hereby appropriated in the general fund of the city of Chelsea as listed below and as summarized. Salaries in the amount of 62,22057,51. Operations and maintenance
in the amount of $198,578 to $727 and capital in the amount of $865,000 totaling $261,71,228. Madam President, I move for a roll call vote. Uh but before doing the vote, if I
could uh say a couple of words. Absolutely. You have the floor, council. Madame President, I have not added any amendments. Um I have not requested any changes to the budget. Um at this moment, uh the city council is only allowed to decrease the amount that the
city manager proposes. Um that is the reason why no amendments that I have can be added. Um, you know, I want to say the impact that the Trump administration has had in our community has been heavy. There's been a lot of community distrust
that has been built because of people's misconceptions that our Department of Police is cooperating with ICE. Um, our inability to protect our people is being deteriorated by the day. In addition to some severe acts of
violence that have happened in our city in the past couple of month in the past couple of months, we th this is when we need stronger presence. This is when we need to increase the safety of our constituency here in the city of
Chelsea. the population is in the rise for the city of Chelsea and we cannot continue to do the work we have always done best if we keep using you know the same power we've been using in the past the same
you know the the same coverage of police is not going to be the same when you increase the amount of people when the density is high that's the reason why in the coming meeting I will be requesting that the city manager do a camera audit to ensure that a 100% % of the city is
covered. I have received multiple complaints from constituents that have said, "Hey, something happened to me, but all of a sudden there was no camera and now there's no evidence that this happened to me." You know, whether it's a car crash, whether somebody got beat up, I don't think Chelsea should be a
city where you cannot have evidence of a crime happening to you in the streets. Second, I will also request that the police uh have a stronger presence in our streets. We need to increase it to make sure that people are deterred from
committing crimes in our city now more than ever because we know what happens when somebody gets charged with a crime. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. Seeing no other comments.
Councelor Brown, you have the floor. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Again, um I took time and liberty to spend a lot of time with this budget. We had it. We had a lot of good hearings. Everyone came up. I want to first and thank all the
department heads for coming up with budgets that really fit what we need in the city of Chelsea to work to continue to offer the service and the protection that we have here. Um, so I really want to give a big shout out to not only the department heads, but also for those
that work in nonprofits and also those that volunteers on the board. They've made our city safer and work for no fee at all. So I really want to support those um volunteers who've helped out. Um, this budget supports a lot. I mean
it's a modest a modest little increase in it but it supports a lot of the day-to-day operation and some of it I believe my counselor was just saying we talk about public safety we talk about education we talk about the most importantly thing that sometime we
forget is the health and human services that we need to continue to work in our schools with our students with the mental health and also just the stigma that's going on right now under a new administration so I believe that, you know, having the conversations with the
department heads, with the city council members here as we are engaged in the dialogue and the city manager. Um, this budget covers the things that we need to do, the mandatory things that we do. Um, a lot of folks don't understand that we still have to pay insurance, we have to
pay the retirees, we have to pay contract obligations that we have. So, those things also are covered in this budget. Uh it always sounds like a great number, but it really costs to run an organization. The city of Chelsea is a it's a small city, but it's a big
organization to have a lot of work to be done here to have a lot a lot over the last few years have went into the health and human services where we've provided so much money for residents. Um you know, we had the opera money so we we
provided so much money. Um, but we still must do better here in the city of Chelsea. Um, but again, I'll be in um voting for this year budget this year. Um, the city manager, kudos to you for your work. I know you've been up late hours and getting a lot of flack, but
it's all going into a great um product to make sure that we keep our residents safe, to make sure that we keep our teachers to be able to educate and have a decent job and a decent salary. and also some of the monies that we've also
given to the public um to make sure they stay in their homes over the years. We've given a lot of money to help people stay in their places. um some of that stuff is dwindling, but as of right now, we've stayed head of the game. And I think that's why we're one of the um we're one of the communities that will
be heading to Denver to for an all-American city, because of the work we do, because of the engagement, because of the opportunities we go out to try to enhance job and economic development and community development. So, I want to thank everyone that played a um big job in specialy council. This
was great. um four um nights we had up here um with the council. Usually we like the council said, we're cutting everything and making you know um remarks about cutting. This year we listen, we watch the numbers, we watch
the fire department, we watch the police department, we seen the increases, but we see the work that's being brought back to our city. So I want to thank everyone for a great job. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, councelor Councelor Taylor. Thank you, Madam
President. I wanted to uh just say a few words about uh this budget. I will be supporting this budget. Um I want to even though this is a an increase over last year in the past I have I have uh
made the argument that at the municipal level we have a job to do and we should spend the money that's required to actually do the job. Um the increases that we saw uh in this budget were
primarily uh for public safety which we which we need. Uh councelor spoke about it. Uh I don't think he's going to get any argument from anyone about uh the uh increased need of public safety.
Um the other thing was uh an increase in salaries and an increase in um different uh uh things where costs are going up like insurance. So health insurance I think went up by 17% this year. Uh we
have absolutely no control over that. It's a cost that it's a cost of doing business. And so um I I have no problem with increasing the budget for that. I was only tempted to make one cut to this budget but decided
against it because I have always said that I I have faith in the um in the department heads and uh I I would uh I would wait and see what department
heads uh do with this budget and how they run the uh how they appropriate those funds. or ask for those funds to be appropriated. Um, so I think in general there were some salary increases
uh that were a little high, but those were supposedly to make up for the flatline years of COVID where people did not get a rate increase. Um, I'm all for fairness, so I have no problem uh with
uh with those increases. uh next year may be a different story. We'll see. Or next contract. Um but kudos to uh the city manager and the deputy city manager uh for putting
together a budget that's that I believe was inbounds. It was somewhat conservative on on a lot of uh on a lot of things. Um, and best of all, uh, with we have a remainder of
free cash going into next year that was unspent of, I believe it was 12 million. Am I correct in that? 12 million left over. So, for those of you who who want to see more cutting, um, we have a
surplus and we're going to need it. So, so let's let's keep this city on a uh on a fiscally conservative track where we end up with this money on the
revenue side that's more than paying for this budget. And uh uh I would say that the uh the extended lease to Enterprise, which we'll be voting on later on, um is
uh a very welcome uh thing in ensuring the long-term financial stability of this city. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. Councelor uh councelor Sanne and then councelor Rupro. So we can go in this direction. Councelor, you okay
with that? All right. And then councelor Himemenz. Hi. I just wanted to add that I was extremely impressed um by what the goals were for each department and the achievement of last year's goals and their goals for um the
upcoming fiscal year. And I really felt like we were seriously getting our money's worth from both staff and initiatives. Thank you, councelor, councelor recuper, and then councelor Himenez. Uh, thank you to the city manager and everybody
for the budget and thank to all of us for going to approve this this budget. Um, this city is a little city, but has a big heart. It takes care of the people that it had that live here, all of them. And we, the counselors and city manager
and the staff, we all try to do the best we can for the people that are here. If you you can you count the size of our city and the population that we have, we give more for the people that live in our city than most cities. So this city
here is a city with a heart and a city that cares about the people that are here. So no matter how much money we have in the budget or how much money we have to spend, this city always finds a way to spend the money to help the constituents of our our city. And it's a great thing. Like they say, there's
never enough money to be safe. And I believe this city is pretty safe considering the size that it has. So, we can't say it's perfect. No city is perfect. But our city is great. And whatever we do and the city manager does, it does for the benefit of the
people that live there. So, this is a fair and a good budget for all. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. Councelor Himenez. All right. Um, I just want to really quickly highlight last year a lot of the conversations that we had were about the
significant bump on the growth in spending for the city manager's office. We got a lot of questions, right? Is it worth it for us to invest in these positions and I I'm I've been really excited that I we've really heard no conversation about that this year, which means that those investments that we
made into these people, right, who it's three people, right? It it's it is Bernab, it is Michael, it is Devon, right? It's three people that have been really spending their time in our city, investing in the people in our city, making sure that every system in our city is running better, which means that
we, the city, are better off, the residents of our community are better off. So, I just want to give a shout out to the city manager for that and in making sure that, you know, the investments that we're making, we don't still have questions about them. We are seeing them pay off. So, I I'm hopeful that the the investments that we're
making this year are going to pay off in the future. So, I'll be very happy to support this budget as well. Thank you. Thank you, counselor. Seeing no other comments, I'll just share real briefly. I echo the sentiments of my fellow counselors.
Um, huge fan of all the work that our city manager and his um department has done uh for our community and um for operations here in general. and we, you know, the outcomes speak for themselves when we see the numbers. Um, I'll also
highlight, you know, our directors. This work cannot be done without them. Steve, Charlie, Kate, um, whenever we reach out and we have constituents asking questions, concerns, you guys respond and, um, you go above and beyond to meet
those needs. Um I think it's really important that we also recognize that this body right here um that we have of counselors, those who come in with the experience and the backgrounds and expertise of different
areas, whether it's the education field, whether you're a business owner, whether it's um a parent who's juggling multiple jobs, and still trying to make sure they're meeting the needs as a counselor. That's or even a counselor
who can relate to the immigrant struggles and the immigrant journey. I myself transitioning from tenant to small homeowner here in the city. Being able to relate to those in my community that are facing those struggles as a tenant or struggles as a small
homeowner. I think that's what makes this council special and I think that's the secret key to the success of this community for us to be able to share in conversation those experiences and make sure that those points of view are all
laid out at the table while we're making decisions and understanding the struggle from different points of view. And I'm just so grateful for each and every one of you. Whether we have disagreed throughout the years or have, you know, been on the same side. I think that's
the magic. That's the magic that happens in this chamber. That's the magic that happens in our um subcommittee meetings. And that's what our city needs. Uh diversity in these seats. And so thank you to each and every one of you for all that you have invested for all the
struggles and sacrifices to make an e, you know, these meetings either um uh community meetings, door knockocking, assisting fire victims, showing up when your family when our families need it most. Um eternally grateful for all of
you. Um all right, let's let's proceed. [Applause] Roll call vote was requested. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennar Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council Raupo. Yes. Council Taylor.
Yes. Councelor Robinson. Yes. Council Tesher. Yes. Council Kelly Garzia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. And councelor Deus. Yes. 11 members in favor. Zero opposed. FY26 budget general fund
appropriations are adopted. All right, moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by the council president being read for the second time. Order that the following sums designated as appropriations are hereby appropriated in the sewer enterprise fund of the city of Chelsea
as follows. Salaries in the amount of $795,49. operations and maintenance expense in the amount of 12,83,775 and capital appropriations in the amount of 1,985,043 for a total of 14,864,227. Thank you, clerk. Is there a motion on
the floor? Motion for roll call vote on the adoption. Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tari Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Councelor Rupo, yes. Council Taylor, yes. Councelor
Robinson, yes. Council Tesha, yes. Council Kelly Garcia, absent. Council Santigette, yes. Council Vega, yes. Council Brown, yes. And councelor Des, yes. 10 members voting in favor, zero opposed, and one absent.
FY26 sewer enterprise fund has been adopted. Thank you, Cler. Moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by the council president being read for the second time. Order that the following sum designated as appropriations are hereby appropriated in the water enterprise fund of the city
of Chelsea as follows. Salaries in the amount of $795,49. Operations and maintenance in the amount of 7,862,797 and capital in the amount of $1,787,652 for a total of 10,445,858. Thank you, Cler. Is there a motion? Motion to adopt. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go
ahead, Mr. T. May you move to a roll call vote on the adoption. Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Councelor Tennar Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimeneza. Yes. Councelor Rupo. Council Taylor.
Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesh. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. Yes. And councus. Yes. 11 members in favor, zero opposed and zero absent. FY26 water enterprise
has been adopted. Thank you, clerk. Moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by the council president being read for the second time. Ordered that the city appropriations and assessments in the general fund are to be financed in part by use of certified free cash of the city of Chelsea as follows. Free cash in
the amount of $1,710,663. Move to adopt and roll call vote. Seeing no objections. Moving to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennar Garcia. Yes. Council Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council Ricupo. Council Taylor.
Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesher. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. And councelor Des. Yes. 11 members in favor. Zero opposed. Zero absent. Free cash appropriation adopted. That concludes
your FY26 budget orders. Awesome. Thank you, clerk. Moving right along. Next, under second readings, we have an order introduced by Council Taylor being read for the second time. Order that in accordance with Mass General Law, Chapter 44, Section 64, Budget
Management Procedures, whereby costs incurred in FY24 were not paid and are owed to vendors, and to meet this obligation, funds are required from current year FY25 budget. As noted, the Chelsea City Council authorizes the following expenditure to satisfy an unpaid balance that totals
$2,259.75 from prior year as follows. Uh for 911 in the amount of $2,259.75 to Verizon for a cost of phone lines. Is there a motion on the floor? Move to a roll call vote on the adoption. Seeing no objections, moving
on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennar Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council Rupo. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesha. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Yes.
Council Brown. Yes. And councelor Dus. Yes. 11 in favor. Zero opposed. Zero absent. Order has been adopted. Thank you, Cler. Moving on. Order introduced by Council Taylor being read for the second time. Order that the Chelsea City Council authorizes the appropriation of $100,000 in free cash to FY25 Housing
and Community Development Contract Services Expense Account for Downtown Initiative, which includes local organizations and small business support, civic engagement, and public art and events. Is there a motion on the floor? Move to a roll call vote on the adoption. Moving to a roll call vote, seeing no
objections. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tenner Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Councelor Ricro. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesher. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Councilor Santig. Yes.
Council Vega. Yes. Councelor Brown. Yes. And councelor Des. Yes. 11 in favor, zero opposed, zero absent. Order has been adopted. Thank you, clerk. Moving on to the next item. We have an order introduced by councelor Taylor being read for the second time. Order that the Chelsea City Council authorizes
appropriations from free cash to the following salary accounts. $2,757 to legislative regular salary account, $500 to FY25 payroll. Madam President, can we wave the rest of the reading and move to a roll call vote?
If there are no objections, seeing no objections, counselor, let's move on to a roll call vote. Madame President, I would just ask that uh we read the total the total total amounts the amounts. Yep. Uh left
off 22,147 personnel temporary account 6,138 city clerk regular salary 8,697 to city clerk overtime 11,242 to city clerk pole workers $900
city clerk unused sick leave bonus $641 permitting and land use regular salary $199,426 emergency management overtime 11,563 3 emergency management holiday account
3,493 parking department regular salary $826 parking department overtime 54,281 DBW snow overtime 20,290 HHS admin regular salary 1,650
HHS admin longevity 4,600 health officer regular salary 28,300 library regular salary $900 library longevity and 43,000 employee benefit Medicare account. Thank you, Claire. Roll call
vote requested. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennar Garcia. Yes. Council Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council Cooper, yes. Council Taylor, yes. Councelor Robinson, yes. Council Tesh, yes. Council Kelly Garcia, yes. Council
Santigette, yes. Council Vega, yes. Council Brown, yes. And councelor Dus, yes. 11 in favor, zero opposed, zero absent. Order has been adopted. Moving on to the next item, an order introduced by Council Taylor, being read for the second time. Ordered that the Chelsea City Council authorizes the
transfer of $14,91 from salary reserve to fiscal year 2025 legislative regular salary account. Move to a roll call vote on the adoption. Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote.
Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennar Gaz. Yes. Council Jimenez Rivera, yes. Council recuper, yes. Council Taylor, yes. Council Robinson, yes. Council Tesher, yes. Council Kelly Garcia, yes. Council
Sant, yes. Council Vega, yes. Council Brown, yes. And council Dus, yes. 11 members in favor, zero opposed, zero absent order adopted. Thank you, cleric. Moving on to the next item. Order introduced by councelor Taylor being read for the second time. ordered that
the city council authorizes appropriations from free cash to the following operating accounts. $20,000 law department legal services for FOV bankruptcy council 10,000 personnel department medical services 61,16 MIS department contract services
for Cisco firewall and ubiquity extenders 8,000 rest of the reading and just read the amount seeing no objections let's proceed with just the amounts clarification we're requesting ing that
we wave the reading and just read amounts. Okay. Moving forward. All right. All right. I I object. Just Just read the thing. It does. It takes a second longer. Okay.
$8,000 to city clerk postage. 10,385 city clerk voting machines for voting booth upgrade. $10,000 fire department software license for record management software 169,531 DBW snow contract service
156,392 snow department salt account 10,000 DBW buildings and grounds building maintenance fencing Boston Park $15,300 DBW buildings and grounds for real estate tax. Thank you clerk. Is there a motion?
Uh move to roll call vote on the adoption please. Moment to roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennari. Yes. Councelor Jimenez River. Yes. Council recuper. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Council
Robinson. Yes. Council Tesher. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santa. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. And council Odysus. Yes. 11 in favor. Zero opposed. Zero absent. Order has been adopted. Thank you clerk.
Moving on to the next item. Order introduced by council Taylor authorizing revolving funds. Whereas pursuant to mass general law chapter 44 section 53E1-2, the city has adopted a new ordinance section 2-200 authorizing six revolving funds. And whereas each year
the ordinance requires city council to vote annually on or before July 1st on the amount that may be spent from each of these revolving funds during the upcoming fiscal year. Now therefore be Madam President, I'd ask to wave the rest of the reading. Just just read the amounts and what they're going to.
That's it. Seeing no objections, moving on with the request. Chelsea Community Schools fund not to not to exceed $100,000. Elder Affairs fund not to exceed $1,000. Emergency
management hazardous material fund amount not to exceed $30,000. Vacant unsafe buildings and nuisance properties fund shall not exceed $30,000. tax title foreclosure properties fund fund shall not exceed $100,000 and Chelsea public library
revolving fund fund shall not exceed $20,000. Thank you. Roll call vote requested. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tenari Garcia. Yes. Council Jimenez. Yes. Council Rupo. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Councelor Robinson.
Yes. Council Tesh. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Yes. Councelor Brown. Yes. And councilus. Yes. All 11 members in favor. Zero opposed, zero absent. Order adopted. Thank you, Cler. Moving
on to the next item. Order introduced by councelor Taylor, authorizing revolving fund for school department non-resident student tuition revolving fund. Whereas section 71F of chapter 71 of general laws authorizes city and towns to establish and accept departmental
revolving funds subject to certain budgetary restrictions. And whereas the city of Chelsea school committee adopted and implemented a tuition fee to be charged to other public school systems wishing to use Chelsea public schools special education programs and further voted to establish a non-resident
student tuition revolving fund for the receipt and dispersement of said tuition and fees collected by Chelsea public schools. Now therefore be it ordered that the Chelsea City Council hereby authorizes the establishment of a revolving fund for the school department in accordance with provisions of section
71F of chapter 71 of general laws subject to following conditions. Only proceeds received by the city pursuant to provisions of Mass General Law chapter 71 section 71F shall be credited to the fund. Aggregate expenditure shall not exceed $250,000 in a single fiscal
year. All funds received after the fund has reached the balance of $250,000 shall be credited to general fund. Expenditures shall be authorized by school committee or their designate and shall not exceed the available balance of the fund. Madam President, can we believe the rest of the reading
and move to a roll call vote? If there are no objections, seeing no objections, let's move on to a roll call vote. Roll call vote has been requested. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tenari Garcia. Yes. Council Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Yes. Council Rupo, yes. Council Taylor, yes.
Council Robinson, yes. Council Tesh, yes. Council Kelly Garcia, yes. Council Santigette, yes. Council Vega, yes. Councelor Brown, yes. And council Dus, yes. 11 in favor, zero opposed, zero absent. Order is adopted. Thank you, clerk. Moving on to
the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by the council president being read for the second time. Whereas by section 30 of chapter 43, section 14 of chapter 40, and chapter 79 of Mass General Law, all as amended, it is provided that the Chelsea
City Council may take a temporary easement in and to in the name of the city for any municipal purpose, land within the limits of the city not already appropriated for public use. And whereas the city administration has identified and recommended a parcel in Chelsea which is necessary to be
temporarily acquired by easement in order to promote and effectuate the city's protection from flooding for long-term economic development and for affordable and market rate housing goals. And whereas the Madam President um I have a pro process question. Can we
take these next three orders together? We cannot. I see the clerk not shaking his head. Um so these next three orders are for the uh easement and taking of the properties uh at 145 Market Street and 359 Beum Street. They are all very
extensive orders. So I would like to start off by asking to wave the rest of the reading for this first one and take a roll call vote on it. Seeing this one being the order for the easement itself. Seeing no objection, Councelor Robinson. Oh, each one needs to be voted on
separately. Yes. Yep. But seeing no objection to waving the reading. Okay. All right. Let's move on to Yes. Yes. Thank you, counselor. So, these were up for the public to see for the public to understand. These have already been read and this is all uh
posted on our um on our website. So, there and we held the public hearing just right at the beginning of this meeting. That's true. That is very true. All right. Moving on to a roll call vote. This order will be for the temporary easement for the property at
359 region. Thank you, clerk. Roll call vote requested. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennari Garcia. Yes. Council Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Councelor Rupo. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Councelor Robinson. Yes. Council Tesha. Yes.
Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santigette. Yes. Council Vega. Council Council Brown. Yes. And council Dus. Yes. 11 in favor, zero opposed, zero absent. Order has been adopted. Thank you,
Clarence. Moving on to the next item. Next, we move on to the next order regarding the eminent domain taking of 145 Marcus Street. Reading was waved. I will make the motion once again to wave the rest of the reading. This for the first of the two takings. Uh if there
are no objections and move it to a roll call vote. Seeing no objections, councelor Robinson. Okay. All right. Moving on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tari Garcia. Yes. Councelor
Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council Rupo. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesh. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santig. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Council Brown. Yes. And council Dus. Yes. 11 in favor, zero
opposed, zero absent. Order has been adopted. Thank you, clerk. And now on to that third item. This will be for the proposed eminent domain taking of a portion of 359 Beach Street. Move to wait the rest of the reading and adopt under a roll call vote. Seeing no
objections, councelor, let's move on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council tenari Garcia. Yes. Councelor Jimenez Rivera. Yes. Council recuper. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesh. Yes. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council
Santigette. Yes. Council Vega, yes. Council Brown, yes. And councelor Desus, yes. 11 members voting in favor, zero opposed, and zero absent. Order adopted. Our final item under second readings, we have a communication received from the city manager being read for the second
time requesting council approvement of appointment to affordable housing trust fund board. Dear councilors, pursuant to section 4-2 of the charter of the city of Chelsea, I am writing to recommend the following individual to a board or commission in the city. for appointment to affordable housing trust fund board, the city's director of housing and
community development, Ben Cares, to fill the unexpired term of deputy city manager of operation Devon Fields while she is away on maternity leave. Madam President, uh move to adopt under roll call vote. Uh seeing no objections,
council, let's move on to a roll call vote. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Tennar Garcia, yes. Councelor Jimenez River, yes. Council Rupo, yes. Council Taylor, yes. Councilor Robinson, yes. Council Tesh, yes. Council Kelly Garcia, yes. Councilor Santigette, yes. Councelor
Vega, yes. Councelor Brown, yes. And councelor Desus, yes. 11 members in favor, zero opposed, zero absent. Appointments approved. And we are done with second readings. Thank you, clerk. Moving on to new business. First item under new business, we have an order
introduced by Council Taylor. Order that the Chelsea City Council act on the report of the Community Preservation Committee on the awarding of grant funding to this FY25 community preservation projects in accordance with Mass General Law chapter 44B section 5 3D and in accordance with chapter 2
article 7 division 3 section 2-330 of the revised code of ordinances of the city of Chelsea and be it further ordered that the Chelsea city council appropriates following amounts from community preservation act open space reserve as recommended by community preservation committee. $200,000 for Palonia Park. Be it further
ordered that the Chelsea City Council appropriate the following amounts from Community Preservation Act Historic Reserve as recommended by Community Preservation Committee. $197,433 for Walnut Street Synagogue. And be it further ordered that the Chelsea City Council appropriates the
following amounts from the budgetary reserve as recommended by Community Preservation Committee. $100,000 for LARiva Housing Voucher Program. $200,000 for the Quinn Residences and $100,000 for the neighborhood developers top off rental assistance program.
Thank you, clerk. Move to Ways and Means. Moving to Ways and Means. Next item on the agenda. Next item under new business, we have an order introduced by Council Taylor. Order that in accordance with Mass General Law, chapter 44, section 64,
budget management procedures, whereby costs incurred in FY24 were not paid and are owed to vendor. And to meet this obligation, funds are required from current year FY25 budget as noted. The Chelsea City Council authorizes the following expenditure to satisfy the unpaid balance from prior year as
follows. City clerk department in the amount of $80 to the Chelsea record as a cost for advertisement. Thank you, Cler. Move to ways and means. Moving to ways and means. Seeing no objections, moving on to the next item. I truly hope you have more items for
that meeting because having a meeting for $80 sounds uh maybe we should just talk about it at our next meeting. Due diligence on the We have an order introduced by Council Taylor being ordered that pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 44 section
53F3-4, the Chelsea City Council hereby approves the FY26 PEG access budget as follows. $229,762 for Chelsea cable television, $85,000 for Chelsea Public Schools, and $130,000 for the city of Chelsea. Thank
you, Cler. Move to Ways and Means. Moving to Ways and Means. Moving on to the next item. Order introduced by Council Taylor. Order that in accordance with Mass General Law Chapter 44B section six, the Chelsea City Council hereby acts on the report of the Community Preservation Committee on the
FY26 Community Preservation Budget and be it further ordered that the Chelsea City Council reserves for appropriation the following amounts from estimated FY26 receipts as recommended by Community Preservation Committee. $124,458 or 10% of estimated revenue for
acquisition, creation, and preservation of open space. $124,458 10% of estimated revenue for acquisition, preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic resources. $248,000 $916 or 20% of estimated
revenue for acquisition, creation, preservation, and support of community housing. and $684,521 or 55% of estimated revenue to budgeted reserve and 62,229 or 5% of estimated revenue for
CPC administrative expenses. Move to Ways and Means. Moving to Ways and Means. Moving on to the next item. We have an order introduced by Council Taylor. Order that pursuant to Mass General Law Chapter 59 section 23, the Chelsea City Council authorizes the
appropriation of $122,177 in free cash for the purpose of closing out deficits in the following accounts that are no longer active and have been identified as structurally deficient by the auditing department and the Massachusetts Division of Local Services. Thank you, Cler. Uh, move to
Ways and Means. Moving to Ways and Means. On to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by the council president. Whereas, it is the expressed purpose of municipal zoning to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the city of Chelsea. And whereas the city
administration desires to clarify language in an amendment to the zoning ordinance of the city of Chelsea, previously adopted by the city council in September 2023, related to the granting of relief of off- streetet parking space requirements and eligibility to participate in the city's residential parking sticker program. And
whereas in accordance with Mass General Law Chapter 4A, the planning board has during a duly posted meeting held Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, voted unanimously to recommend the Chelsea City Council adopt the amendment as proposed to section 34-106J6 off streetet parking
requirements of the zoning ordinances of the city of Chelsea. And whereas the Chelsea City Council has held a public hearing on the proposed zoning amendment. Now therefore be it ordered that the revised code of ordinances of the city of Chelsea as amended be as follows. Amendment to section 34-106 J6
off streetet parking requirements to read as follows. Any relief from the number of required off street parking spaces in the zoning ordinance shall disqualify that location from participating in the residential parking sticker program. Thank you. Madam President, move to Oh, is there an
amendment? Oh, sorry. So I'll ask our clerk to please share. Uh when the order was originally drafted, it was presumed that the council would have had his public hearing by now. The council has not. So the fourth whereas will need to be removed and a public hearing be
scheduled which is already scheduled for our final meeting on the 23rd. I guess just amendment amend it so that it makes sense for our final meeting. So move to amend or just refer it to move it to a second hearing and public hearing. All right.
So move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move move it it to a second reading and public hearing public hearing scheduled for our final meeting June 23rd city council chamber thank you cler moving on to the next item next item under new business we
have an order introduced by the council president ordered that pursuant to section chapter 171 of the legislative acts of 2014 and mass general law chapter 40 section 4A the Chelsea city council approves the city of Chelsea entering into an agreement for for the North Suffach Public Health Collaborative with the municipalities of
River and Winter. Thank you, clerk. Madam President, uh move to a second reading. Moving to a second reading. All right, moving on to the next item. Next item under new business, we have an order introduced by the council
president. a resolution to file and accept a intermunicipal agreement with and from the cities of Everett, Malden, Chelsea, and the town of Arlington for the implementation of cooling features at high heat high ridership bus stops within the city of Chelsea. Whereas the goal of this project is community-led
designs of cooling strategies and environmental justice communities. And whereas all parties recognize the importance of collaboration and sharing resources to achieve their respective goals. And whereas Mass General Law Part One, Title 7, Chapter 40, Section 4A, empowers municipalities to enter into
intermunicipal agreements for the management and completion of complex regional projects. And whereas the city of Chelsea has for years recognize the dangers of unadressed extreme heat and urban heat island effects and the vulnerability that the city faces due to undeniable impacts of climate change and
overabundant presence of imperous surfaces. And whereas the priorities detailed in the city's 2018 community resilience building workshop summary of findings identified extreme heat as a top climate hazard. And whereas Chelsea has some of the highest ridership bus stops in the MBTA network where
residents are often waiting without shade or cooling during the hottest parts of summer. And whereas Mass General Law Part One title 7 chapter 40 section 4A empowers municipalities to enter into municipal agreements for the management and completion of complex regional projects. And whereas the city of Chelsea through the Department of
Housing and Community Development is the subreient of an MVP action grant through a regional project with the cities of Everett and Malden and the town of Arlington for $687,000 to advance the design and implement cooling features at bus stops. And whereas the city of Everett, the
city of Malden, the town of Arlington, and the city of Chelsea secured the MVP grant from the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs towards the same milestone. Madam President, can we wave the rest of the reading and move to a roll call vote on the adoption of the cooling features that I'm very
excited for? Seeing no objections, we're moving on to a roll call vote. Thank you. Roll call vote requested. Yes. Vote to adopt. Council Jenner. Yes. Council Jimenez Rivera. Absolutely. Council Pupo. Council Taylor. Yes. Council
Robinson. Yes. Council Tesher. Absolutely. Council Kelly Garcia. Yes. Councilor Santigette, yes. Council Vega, yes. Councelor Brown, yes. And councelor Desus, yes. 10 in favor, zero opposed, one absent. Order adopted. We got a lot of orders tonight. I got to keep it
light. Yes, we do. Thank you. Moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by the council president order that pursuant to section 2-192 with the revised code of ordinances of the city of Chelsea, the city council authorizes the city manager to execute any and all documents to extend the
lease for the tenency at 324 Marginal Street, Chelsea, Massachusetts until 2055. Is there a motion? Move to adopt uh under roll call vote. Seeing no objections, moving on to a roll call vote. Roll call vote requested. Yes. Vote to
adopt. Councelor Tari Garcia. Yes. Council Hermenz Rivera. Yes. Councelor Coopro. Yes. Council Taylor. Yes. Council Robinson. Yes. Council Tesh is absent. Councelor Kelly Garcia. Yes. Council Santig. Yes. Council Vega. Yes. Councelor Brown. Yes. And councilus.
Yes. 10 in favor, zero opposed, one absent. Order has been adopted. Moving on. Our next item under new business. Order introduced by councelor Robinson. ordered that the city manager provide an update to the city council on the status of the redevelopment project at the veterans home. Councelor Robinson
adopted unanimously on the suspension. I'll be brief. Actually, I attended the soldiers home event on the Thursday before Memorial Day and some of the veterans have approached me because they feel there's been a lack of communication to the veterans as to
what's going on with the development. Um the city manager did send me an email to kind of give me an update, but uh being I put the order in, I want to make sure that the veterans know that we're paying attention to what's going on up there.
Thank you, councelor. Moving on to the next item. We have an order introduced by council Robinson. Ordered that the city manager provide an update to the city council on the future status of the shelter for migrants currently located at the former Quigley Hospital in light of the governor's recently announced plan to
close all hotel shelters this summer. Councelor Robinson adopt this unanimously on the suspension. Just very briefly, the the governor did mention that they were going to close all hotels but didn't really mention anything about shelters. And some of the people in the
neighborhood have asked me what um if I knew anything in regards to the shelter. I don't have any information. That's why I put this order in. Thank you, councelor. Counselor Himenez. Yeah, I just want to just briefly uh
address this. I I I thank the counselor for for putting this this order in because I think it it's a challenge, right? And um I think that cutting funding where there is currently a need is putting our families at risk that have been uh up there in the in the
shelter for for a while. Uh I think what I've been hearing from the state is that you know they don't have the the funding, right? We can continue to support support this shelter uh these shelters and you know instead of having a shelter funding issue, we are now going to have a homeless families issue.
So, I think it's um honestly disgraceful that the the state is doing this instead of figuring out ways to make it work. Um so, I would, you know, I would encourage us to to remain active in supporting these families any way that we can. Um cuz at the end of the day, they do live down the street from me and I frankly
don't want to see people homeless, you know, in in in my community. That's just not Chelsea's values. It's not Massachusetts values. And I I think that we should be um pushing our state government to continue to support these families as much as we can so that we're not putting people out on the street.
Thank you. Thank you, councelor. Councelor Rupo, from what I understand, the shelters closing June 11th. That's what they said. They shut it down next month. This month.
All right. Thank you, counselor. We will hear from the state um as to the response that we get after this meeting and we'll share with the public. Moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by councelor Cooper who ordered that the traffic and parking commission approve the installation of a
stop sign on Central Avenue at the intersection with Shaman Street in the eastbound direction. Adopt under suspensions with no objection. Like to speak on it. You have the floor, counselor. I put in to put a stop sign there. There a fourway intersection. And there's supposed to be stop signs the
four ways coming in and out. They had at least I know of three accidents that has happened within two month period. The parking and traffic said there's no need of it. They killed children. They go there. They stop because they go to a shirtless school. I don't understand why
the parking and traffic commission does not care about the people in our city. They should have put a stop sign and a four-way intersection is a stop sign on all ways. So they didn't do it. There's an there's a stop sign. One, two, there's three of them. And the one that
was supposed to they didn't put it. So they have an accident. They had an accident just a week ago. And a month ago, they had another one. So what are you waiting for? A little kid to get crushed or what are you waiting for? Another person to really get injured bad. Why? Because you decide it's not
right to put a stop sign there. You should put a stop sign. If the council, if I put in to put a sign there because the people are telling me and asking me to tell you to put one there because it's dangerous, but yet you keep insisting to deny it. How many times do
I have to come in front of you for you to say to me, "Well, it's okay. We're going to put a sign. Don't you listen to what the people want? What do you think? I tell you to put these signs because it's a joke. I want to put stop signs everywhere." Listen, sometimes to us
counselors, don't keep saying to us, you know better. We know better because the people are telling us and we live there. So follow the rules and put a stop sign because in a four-way intersection, I believe you should have signs on all four ways. Thank you. Thank you,
councelor. Moving on to the next item. Madam President, can I councelor Himenez? Yeah, I just want to quickly comment on on councelor Cubo's order. uh you know I I have a child that attends the ELC and I I'm there constantly you know doing pickup and drop off and and there are a number of areas including
this intersection that you know we should be looking into how we can create better uh safe spaces for our children to navigate you know and and parents and caretakers. Um I know I know the the school district today got a got an award uh for the safe streets
initiative. Um, so I know that there is work happening in that area, but if there if there's any way that we the city can support um the school district and in any kind of initiative uh to promote, you know, better crossings and I I know, you know, there's a couple of
of intersections where, you know, there might not be a crossing guard. So, anything that we can do to support uh improving the safety, not just at the ELC, but at all of our schools, I'd be happy to, you know, help uh support that. And I know many of my colleagues here would also. So, um, please and
thank you. Thank you, councelor. Moving on. Uh, councelor Sanne, I just want to say that what seems to be aggravating the situation there, in addition to lacking one stop sign, is that people are still continuing to go down street
um toward Chester the wrong way. the direction of that street changed and there are do not enter signs, but I haven't seen anyone I've seen many people not following that. So, that just adds to the danger there. Um, I
literally was almost hit headon by a car coming down. So, um, I don't want to end up in Garden Cemetery sooner than I have to. Thank you, counselor. All right, moving on to the next item. Next, we have an order introduced by
council recubo order that the city manager instruct the department of public works to approve the planting of a tree in front of 50 Maverick Street. Adopt under suspension like to speak on it. You have the floor counselor. Um, I was told that they can't put a tree there because the pipelines or whatever
is there. Maybe it was next door to 50. But I know there was a tree there and there's still a hole. So fill up the hole again with a tree. That's what you're supposed to do. If there's a hole, put a tree. It was there before. So they told me that you can't put one
in 50 because a pipeline that there's pipes, there's water hydrant. So put the hole is next door. So put it next door. So I might have made a mistake. The exact correct address, but you can see there's a hole there. So if there's a hole there, put a tree. Thank you. Thank
you, counselor. Words to live by. More trees in our city. Moving on to the next item. Order introduced by council recuper. Order that the city manager direct the department of public works to repair potholes on Congress evidence. Under the suspension, there's no objection. Like to speak on it. You have
the floor, councelor. Ah, they've been trying to patch up the holes, but really what happens is this city has a big problem. The big problem is the utility companies come in, they dig up these streets and they don't put them the way they're supposed to put them. You have to wait. So, because that street was
recently done, it was all nice. Now you there's potholes and cars are being broken up. The city should be in talk of these utility companies. I think the city has an agreement that it's supposed to go back to the way it was. And these utility companies never put them back to
the way they are. The city spends all kinds of money to fix these holes. Then they come, they fix it. Oh, we got to fix it. Then they throw a patch on it and within two, three months, the hole becomes a big indentation that your tire falls inside of. So, we should be more
on top of these utility companies. Thank you. Thank you, counselor. Moving on to the next item. Order introduced by Order introduced by councelor Rupo. Order that the city manager direct the department of public works to trim grass and clean tree beds across district 6.
Adopt under suspension. like to speak on it. You have the floor. Uh, a lot of these trees, the grass grows and it takes a while. It becomes and then all the dogs go and do whatever they got to do on them. Maybe if they cut them, they
won't do that. And um, I would like to see the city manager, maybe DPW, come and assess all the districts that have these trees and look around and periodically go around and see which one are the ones that need to be trimmed. and without councils into telling them
they have to do it, they should do it on their own just by assessing how the trees are on the area, whatever district it is that has a lot of trees. So that I believe there would be a more efficient way to make sure there's no grass around these trees. Thank you. Thank you,
councelor. Moving on to the next item. Oh, councelor Brown. councelor San I was just going to say that I think it's a great idea if um they could be proactive but I also have had excellent service whenever I have shared any problems on
311 with photographs and those issues have been closed in very very quickly. So I just want to give a shout out to the different departments who do um address any issues such as a tree needing to be trimmed etc. Um, and I've
also had excellent communication if for some reason there's a So, for example, there was a there's a tree overgrown, but I didn't know that the the bucket truck was out of service, but then when I put it into 311, then I knew that it
was out of service and they let me know and then they let me know when it was back on the road again. So, I have been impressed with uh using 311 for such things as tree pits, etc. Thank you, councelor. Moving on to the
Madam President. Oh, councelor uh Taylor, sorry. I I um I just want a clarification on something. Um, I I was under the the impression that that the trees that are
planted in the sidewalks are the res to the grass that grows up around them are the residents uh responsibility to keep those groomed in front of their property. Can can we get some sort of a clarification on that
from uh from DPW uh Is that a motion for suspension of the rules? Manager, if you can join us on the without objection. Thank you. I mean, I I I I think it's it's
uh councelor Cooper is right that that technically it is city property, right? But uh uh I I I would also say that that that it is it is um virtually impossible for DPW to maintain
uh the 84 miles of sidewalks that are are in Chelsea. Right. So so in many in many neighborhoods we uh uh have implemented programs where where residents do take care of of their sidewalks, right? Uh and they beautify a
lot of tree pits. uh we have a program in DPW where we actually pay for it. Um so so it's you know we we um it's it's better when we work together. It's it's more efficient, right? Uh um I think that it would be uh
a little wasteful to hire a few DPW employees to just do do uh u you know picking up trash on on on tree pits. Um, so it it is a balance, I think, and and the the more that residents can do to help us, the better it's going to
be. Uh, Madame President, I I'm not quite sure I understood the answer whether it is or it is not the like can can residents be ticketed for not doing it? No. No, no. It uh um so it is not
the the it is not their legal responsibility. That's right. It it is the the the area uh uh on the other side of of your city line, right? I'm sorry. On your property line is the city's responsibility. That's right.
Councelor Sneay, I must have been misinformed by some. No, no, no. You've been well informed. Keep keep maintaining your area, please. Councelor Sanne, I just wanted to give a shout out to one of my
constituents on this topic. Um, not only did Mr. Manlyo Menddees um, help a tree on Watt Street, it had been hit a lot of times by vehicles, etc. But he has worked hard with his own
materials and labor to protect the tree. and we even met together to brainstorm ways to add more trees to the street. Um, it's a street I grew up on, so I have a soft spot for it. Um, but I just,
you know, he he really did some excellent work and I just wanted to thank him for doing that publicly and hopefully it will encourage others to do the same. And there are restrictions. since we can't be building
big huge um benches and boxes etc. But um but as long as the roots are protected uh as long as the roots are allowed to grow um I think that that is a great initiative and it will protect
the trees and so I don't think people who who do try to protect the trees should be chastised for doing that. I think that they should be commended. So I'm commending him. Thank you, councelor. We have one more item with councelor
recuper ordered that the city manager direct relevant city departments to conduct a study on the configuration of traffic and street light timings at the intersection of marginal street and Eastern Avenue near the Chelsea Street Bridge. Adopt on the suspension like to speak on it. I have the floor.
Um, I don't know what we can do to make it better, but I think we should try. Uh, there's a a big issue going on on Central Avenue with the buses. They come out of the parking lot. They come in and they block once they're out. They're so big they block the whole section. So now
everything gets backed up to Central Avenue. Everything gets backed up the other going down to Marginal Street going down to Eastern Avenue. So, I don't know how we can fix the situation, but it should be fixed because those buses are so big. When they come out,
half of it is in and half of it is out. So, maybe we should figure out a way. There must be a way because the way it is now, it's not working. And it creates a bigger traffic jam than it has. Oh, I I know what we should do.
Maybe we should teach the bus drivers should send them to school to learn how to drive so they don't block both sides of the road. You know what I mean? Like they they they ticket us people that say you you don't know how to drive. What about them? They have no consideration for the people that drive down. How you
going to put a bus that's that big to close the whole street? All right. Thank you, councelor. Uh, councelor Sanate, I do believe from my attendance at a recent traffic and parking commission meeting that this very issue came up and I do believe that
it may involve a light somehow that is going to be placed there in the um, Massport uh, parking lot bus lane, I believe. Um
I can't recall all the details but it did come up for the very reason. So when it comes I hope it doesn't take 22 years. All right. Let's uh councelor Robinson. Yeah. On on behalf of recover they're
going to adjust the lights so that the buses will be able to come out and not block the traffic like they have been doing for the past several years. Thank you. Thank you, counselor. And thank you, Coun uh Councelor Brown. Madame President, um just I wasn't going to say
anything, but I ride the Silver Line in the bus um 104 and the 112 every day. Um I see Cliff on it many times on the 112. Um it's just been an increase of buses. As we know, the 104 coming out of Malden
coming down through Chelsea is the new bus to go in that direction. and it the lights are just so, you know, off. I'm not sure how off they are, but they create a a really jam in the morning and in the afternoon. So, it's something
that I've spoken to um 585 about and they are having conversations. So, I don't know where they are with the conversation, but I can tell you, you know, you got the Paul Rivere, you got the blue buses, you got the Silver Line, you got the 104, you got the 112. So all
those buses are coming over and they're trying to get over into East Boston and you got the cars coming down Eastern and Meridian Street. So it somewhat causes that jam there. It's frustrating. Um but it is getting better. Um and also I I'll
leave that for announcements later, but that's where some of the um chaotic um situations are coming with the buses. It's not that they don't know how to drive. Thank you, counselor. So, I will move us right along to public announcements and I will ask our counselors to please
share as much as possible public announcements um so that then we can move on to moments of silence. Councelor Sanne. Yes. Um, there will be a subcommittee on conference for public safety tomorrow
evening at 6 PM in the chamber. And there will also be a public safety meeting at Chelsea Public Library on the 10th of June at 6:00 p.m. um with the chief and the city manager. So, I would like to encourage people to
attend one or both of those meetings if possible. uh especially since it is a very important topic right now and uh the summer months are approaching and we know that that's a even a busier time.
So, thank you. Thank you, councelor Councelor uh Brown. Thank you, Madam President. I have two announcements. One is um I just got word that the folks up in Admiral Hill who's been patiently waiting to find out if there's going to
be any hearings coming up on the proposal for seafood um operation up there at the old signature um bread place. Um I just got announcements today um confirmed that the petitioners have filed. There's no date set for the
hearings as of yet, but I just want you to be aware if you're listening and you're interested that the petitioners have filed a petition to um go before the boards and as soon as that those dates come, um I'll do all my um just
duty to get that information to the um property owners up there through the association through um Lundred Management. Um secondly, if you are riding, speaking of buses, if you are
riding um the 111, the 112 or the 104 going to the blue line starting June 7 um through the 15th, the blue line from Orian Heights to Bowden will be buses only. So, um if you um concerned about
traffic and you're concerned about getting to work um on time, be aware that there will be no blue line service from June 7th to the 15th from Orian Heights to Bowden Station. Um and again, that's the blue line only. Thank you.
Thank you, counselor. Moving on to moments of silence. Seeing none. All right. Meeting adjourned team.