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Boston, MA is a Massachusetts city (in the state of Massachusetts).
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- It can have a Boston Finance Director, ...
- It can have a Boston Performance Dashboard[2].
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- See: Suffolk County, Massachusetts, State Capital, Massachusetts State House, Greater Boston.
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2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston Retrieved:2016-9-1.
- Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston also served as the county seat of Suffolk County until Massachusetts disbanded most county governments by 2000. [1] The city proper covers with an estimated population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest city in New England and the 23rd largest city in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.7 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 8.1 million people, making it the sixth-largest combined statistical area in the United States. One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon U.S. independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the original peninsula. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing over 20 million visitors per year. Boston's many firsts include the United States' first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), first subway system (1897), and first public park (1634). The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education,[2] including law, medicine, engineering, and business, and the city is considered to be a world leader in innovation and entrepreneurship. Boston's economic base also includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology, and government activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of philanthropy in the United States; businesses and institutions rank among the top in the country for environmental sustainability and investment. The city has one of the highest costs of living in the United States, though it remains high on world livability rankings.
- ↑ List of intact or abandoned Massachusetts county governments
- ↑ [1] Accessed May 12, 2016.
- https://www.boston.gov/cityscore
- QUOTE: CityScore is an initiative designed to inform the Mayor and city managers about the overall health of the City at a moment’s notice by aggregating key performance metrics into one number. Here we will provide you with an overview of the CityScore tool and data, but more importantly we will show you how we are using CityScore to make improvements across the City.
Topic Day Week Month QTR 311 CALL CENTER PERFORMANCE 0.90 0.92 0.91 0.90 CONSTITUENT SATISFACTION SURVEYS 0.77 0.84 0.90 0.92 GRAFFITI ON-TIME % 1.19 1.23 1.18 1.14 MISSED TRASH ON-TIME % 1.25 1.23 1.22 1.21 PARKS MAINTENANCE ON-TIME % 1.25 1.12 1.00 0.97 POTHOLE ON-TIME % 0.96 1.01 1.01 1.02 SIGN INSTALLATION ON-TIME % 0.31 0.58 0.75 0.89 SIGNAL REPAIR ON-TIME % 1.25 1.16 1.13 1.12 STREETLIGHT ON-TIME % 0.71 0.91 0.99 0.95 TREE MAINTENANCE ON-TIME % - 1.25 1.22 1.19 ON-TIME PERMIT REVIEWS 0.95 1.02 1.00 1.03 LIBRARY USERS 1.34 1.25 1.25 1.26 BPS ATTENDANCE - - - - BFD RESPONSE TIME 0.95 0.94 0.94 0.93 BFD INCIDENTS 1.08 1.16 1.09 1.02 EMS RESPONSE TIME 0.84 0.98 0.96 0.96 EMS INCIDENTS 1.10 1.04 1.03 1.02 PART 1 CRIMES 2.04 1.50 1.39 1.40 HOMICIDES (TREND) - 2.06 3.65 4.14 SHOOTINGS (TREND) 2.60 3.04 2.37 2.16 STABBINGS (TREND) 2.86 1.05 1.28 1.43 TOTALS 1.24 1.21 1.27 1.28