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School committee approves donations and out‑of‑state CHS field trips by unanimous roll call
Summary
The Chelsea School Committee unanimously approved accepting gift‑card and monetary donations and approved three field trips (Newport Mansions for 260 students, a Disney performance and a Boston Sheraton overnight for a Harvard mentoring program); roll call recorded nine affirmative votes on listed consent items.
By roll call, the Chelsea School Committee approved a set of consent items that included small donations and three out‑of‑state field trips.
The committee accepted $240 in Burger King and McDonald's gift cards donated by the Chelsea Rotary Club for Chelsea students and also accepted $1,600 in additional gift donations; the items were identified as 26SC01 and 26SC02. The chair called each item for a roll call and committee members voted "yes" in recorded roll calls; the chair declared "9 in the affirmative".
The committee also voted on a set of field trips approved on the superintendent's recommendation. Item 26SC03 approved an out‑of‑state field trip to the Newport Mansions in Newport, Rhode Island on April 10, 2026, for 260 Chelsea High School students with 26 chaperones to tie into a Gilded‑Age curriculum. Item 26SC04 approved a performance and workshops with Disney for 26 students with three chaperones and four district administrators. Item 26SC05 approved an overnight trip to the Boston Sheraton Hotel, February 19–26, 2026, for a Harvard mentoring program for 10 students and two chaperones. Each roll call on these items was recorded as nine affirmative votes.
There were no recorded dissenting votes on the consent items and the motions carried.
