The City Council voted emphatically, 9-0, on Monday night to create a new ordinance that not only bans fireworks, but also creates a $300 non-criminal fine that the Chelsea Police intend to enforce vigorously after last summer’s crazy battle with fireworks. Councilor Todd Taylor said he had never gotten so many calls from so many corners of the City after he spoke up last summer about the barrage of fireworks during the pandemic from May to August. Nightly, fireworks boomed throughout the sleeping hours and disrupted the lives of many residents – with virtually nothing that could be done enforcement-wise due to the soft ordinance that was on the books.