MassVoter.com← Chelsea City CouncilChelsea City Council · 2020–2021 Council · Regular meeting
May 4, 2020
3 recorded votes, 3 with disagreement.
Sources: Official minutes (PDF) · City meeting page
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Attendance
Note on these minutes: The attendance line (some councilors on Zoom) lists ten councilors and does not mention Councilor Robinson, although the minutes name him moving motions; MassVoter shows him as not present and does not count him in votes.
Present: Roy Avellaneda, Damali Vidot, Todd Taylor, Melinda Vega, Naomi Zabot, Enio Lopez, Judith Garcia, Giovanni Recupero, Yamir Rodriguez, Calvin Brown
Absent: Leo Robinson
Every vote, in order
The roll call passed the order
The roll call passed the order
The minutes give the count (10-0-1-0) and name Leo Robinson, who is not on the attendance line for this meeting. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“The roll call passed the order 10-0-1-0. Voting yes were Councilors Zabot, Garcia, Taylor, Robinson, Brown, Vidot, Maldonado, Rodriguez, Avellaneda, and Lopez. Councilor Recupero was absent, ORDERED, that, based upon the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency as described in the Emergency Preamble adopted by the City Council on April 6, 2020, the Chelsea City Council authorizes the emergency appropriations of funds in the amount of $1,576,650 from Free Cash to the HHS Department Administration Division, Operations Account #015052-538201 COVID-19 Emergency Services Fund for food, hygiene supplies, emergency housing and other emergency expenditures to respond to the COVID- 19 crisis..”
Order: the City Council act on the report of the Commonwealth Preservation Committee on the awarding of grant funding for a FY2020 community preservation project, in accordance with MGL Chapter...
The order passed
The minutes give the count (10-0-1-0) and name Leo Robinson, who is not on the attendance line for this meeting. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“The order passed 10-0-1-0. Voting yes were Councilors Zabot, Garcia, Taylor, Robinson, Brown, Vidot, Maldonado, Rodriguez, Avellaneda, and Lopez. Councilor Recupero was absent..”
A roll call was taken and the order passed
A roll call was taken and the order passed
The minutes give the count (9-0-2-0) and name Leo Robinson, who is not on the attendance line for this meeting. Showing the count only.
From the minutes
“A roll call was taken and the order passed 9-0-2-0. Voting yes were Councilors Zabot, Garcia, Taylor, Robinson, Brown, Maldonado, Rodriguez, Avellaneda Lopez. Absent were Councilor Vidot and Recupero, ORDERED, that, a Special Subcommittee be created to discuss, report back and suggest to the City Council as a whole a CIOVID-19 Economic Stimulus Package to assist Chelsea-based businesses to reopen after the state ordered non-essential business shut down is lifted..”
From the Chelsea City Council’s official minutes, posted on the city’s City Council agendas and minutes page (2021 on) and its City Council archive (2015 to 2020). We check every vote against the councilors present and quote the exact wording. MassVoter never grades or scores officials. Councilor photos: City of Chelsea (chelseama.gov), from the official photos on the City Council page. Former councilors show initials.
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