The Chelsea City Council met on Tuesday Aug. 21 at Chelsea City Hall for its bi-weekly council meeting.
During the council work session, the city’s finances were found to be in excellent standing.
For the Mayor’s Report, Mayor Tony Picklesimer issued a proclamation declaring September "Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month” for the city of Chelsea.
According to the National Cervical Cancer Coalition, in the United States alone, around 89,000 women are diagnosed with gynecologic cancer. Of those 89,000, more than 29,000 cases are fatal. To honor his proclamation and bring awareness to Chelsea, the Chelsea City Hall will be lit up in teal, the color associated with gynecologic cancers.
At the last city council meeting, the issue of unpaid business licenses arose. Since then, the city has issued warnings to the businesses that have not paid, and the issue has begun to resolve itself. To keep up these efforts, a compliance officer will be going around to Chelsea businesses to make sure that they are paying their license fees.
There were two public hearings for proposed resolutions 693 and 694, in which the city would be offering an economic development incentive for Holcombe Doors & Windows LLC and Rumur Properties, LLC.
For Holcombe Doors and Windows LLC, their incentive will be a one-time payment of $15,000 to go towards infrastructure costs and building their location in the city of Chelsea. Rumur Properties, LLC’s financial incentive will be connected to a restaurant, with four percent of their sales returning back to the city.
From there, two percent of the sales will be rebated back to the restaurant. This process will go on until the rebates reach a total of $60,000, or until five years have passed. With no objections from the public, the resolutions were moved up to council business where they were approved.
A motion was presented and carried for Mayor Picklesimer to enter into a contract with Spurrier Consulting to conduct a study for the possibility of bringing a hotel to Chelsea. The study will go on for a few years, but Mayor Picklesimer, in a later comment about the inevitability of the city getting a hotel, said “It’s just a matter of time.”
Council business for the meeting included:
- Authorizing a retail liquor license for Station 31 Kitchen.
- Appointing a new library board member.
- Carrying a motion to suspend the rules for Proposed Ordinance 774, which calls for an annexation ordinance at Highway 51 of a property containing 3 acres of land.
