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[email protected] sale in Chelsea located at 87 Parker St. chelsearealestate.com for details Happy Mother’s Day! Chelsea record Check out the Mom’s YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER SINCE 1890 Day drawings on Page 6 VOLUME 118, No. 10 THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019 35 CENTS In contentious GOOD GAME City Budget request submitted vote, Council and sits at $181.5 million votes to allow By Adam Swift and Elder Services -- and an increase from a part-time to change to City Manager Thomas Am- a full-time position in the brosino presented a city bud- Licensing Department. The insurance get just short of $181,500,000 E-911 increase, a total of three for Fiscal Year 2020 to the new full-time positions, fol- City Council Monday night. lows a personnel review by the By Adam Swift The proposed budget department’s new director. Increases in the DPW in- Current and former munic- funds city expenditures at clude personnel for a new 311 ipal employees crowded into $86,095,981 and the schools at system as well as a group of Monday night’s City Council $95,391,784 for a total budget new hires required for the city meeting as the council took up of $181,487,765. This budget to operate its own Water and a vote to allow City Manager is about $6.5 million more Sewer Department. Thomas Ambrosino to negoti- than the FY19 budget, an in- The FY20 budget includes ate changes to the city’s group crease of 3.71 percent.