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Chelsea council approves en bloc free-cash appropriations to cover FY deficits (8–0 vote)
Summary
Council combined two orders and approved en bloc appropriations from free cash to cover salary and operating deficits (police, fire, DPW, benefits, snow removal, and others); clerk reported the roll-call result as 8 in favor, 0 opposed, 3 absent.
On May 4 the Chelsea City Council approved two combined orders appropriating free cash to cover fiscal-year deficits in salary and operating accounts.
The orders included line-item transfers to cover police overtime ($105,000), fire overtime ($406,000), emergency management overtime ($135,000), DPW streets and sidewalks overtime ($40,000), DPW snow-removal contracts ($787,296) and salt ($162,358), DPW solid-waste disposal ($75,000), employee benefits lines (health insurance $80,000; Medicare $46,000; unemployment $40,000), and other departmental lines. The clerk read the full list of account-level appropriations during the second-reading item.
City Manager summarized that unusually heavy snow and related overtime drove several of the deficits and described the orders as the year-end wrap-up of forecasted deficits. The council conducted a roll-call vote as requested; the clerk reported: “With 8 members voting in favor, 0 opposed, 3 absent. Orders en bloc have been approved.”
The approvals allocate certified free cash to close identified gaps; they do not represent policy changes beyond funding the current-year shortfalls.
