After weeks of negotiating with local leaders in Chelsea and Everett after being shorted by the federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the federal delegation, Gov. Charlie Baker announced his Administration would dedicate a total of $100 million of additional federal funding to those two communities – and two others that were shorted.
The additional funding announcement brought Everett and Chelsea further up from the low levels of funding they did have under the Plan, but still far behind more affluent communities like Newton and Brookline and others.
“When this issue was first brought to our attention and when you look at the numbers generally, when you have what I would describe as relatively better-off financially communities getting $70, $80, and $90 million, and you have places like Chelsea and Everett…, which have been hit pretty hard by the pandemic and don’t have the kinds of resources many of these other communities have, getting $6, $7 and $8 million – it was pr
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Chelsea will join 19 other cities and towns disproportionately affected by COVID-19 for an effort by Gov. Charlie Baker to deploy targeted outreach to the communities and $1 million to support community health centers in priority vaccination of residents.
The announcement came on Tuesday evening from the Department of Public Health (DPH), and Chelsea was identified with other communities like Everett, Revere, Lynn and Lawrence, among others.
This list of 20 is a subset of the cities and towns that met the Massachusetts COVID Advisory Group recommendation to prioritize communities using the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and COVID-19 case rates since the start of the pandemic. Those communities were then ranked by average daily COVID-19 case rates in each city and town (excluding cases in long-term care and correctional facilities and communities with under 30,000 residents). From this ranked list by case rate, the top 17 cities and towns with the highest percentage of p