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Reducing Gun Violence in Boston
BOSTON GUN BUYBACK PROGRAM On March 24, 2014, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the Boston Gun Buyback program , also known as "Your Piece for Peace,“ managed by the Boston Police Department ...
Safety and Health for Boston's Women and Girls
Jack Connors, Elizabeth Nabel, Senate President Therese Murray, Dr. Paula Johnson, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Martin J. Walsh are shown at the National Women’s Health Policy Summit at ...
Fetch Your Dog a License—Online
Boston’s Animal Care and Control unit offers a variety of services to Boston residents. Its mission is to provide responsive, efficient animal control services, and provide a high quality of a...
The Mayor's Office of New Bostonians' Capacity-Building Initiative
The purpose of the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians (MONB) is to strengthen the ability of diverse cultural and linguistic communities to play an active role in the economic, civic, social, ...
Bostonians with Disabilities
On February 4, 2014, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the City of Boston was accepting applications for the Mayor’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities . The Commission facilitates full an...
Preparing for Climate Change and How to Greenovate Your Life
On March 7, 2014, at the Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference, “Weathering the Storm: Moving Forward on Regional Resilience ,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said, “As one of Am...
Welcome to Boston (City Hall)!
At the January 11th Public Hearing on Human Services at the Haitian Multi-Service in Dorchester, with more than 150 people in attendance, one man asked the Human Services Working Group for Mayor ...
Improving Addiction and Recovery Services
Substance abuse and addiction is a national issue that must be addressed through a mix of education and social and medical support services. We must both help reduce substance abuse and help Bost...
Summer Jobs for Boston's Teens
Every summer thousands of teens finish their school year and find themselves with a lot of free time on their hands and, most likely, a desire to make some extra spending money. Creating summ...
Elevating Arts and Culture in Boston
A Wordle from the job description for the new Arts and Cultural Affairs Commissioner . During the 2013 mayoral campaign, candidate Marty Walsh said that one of the main issues he heard about...
Simplifying Boston's Permitting Process
Mayor Martin J. Walsh at the March 7, 2014 annual meeting for Boston Municipal Research Bureau. During the mayoral campaign, our Open Town Meeting, and several public hearings during the tra...
Boston Stays Up Late
When you ask the question of how could you make Boston more livable, exciting, and attractive, one of the most common answers we’ve heard is to not roll up the sidewalks quite so early, especia...
On January 6, 2014, Martin J. Walsh became the 54th Mayor of...
On January 6, 2014, Martin J. Walsh became the 54th Mayor of Boston. During his first 101 days in office, Mayor Walsh has worked tirelessly toward making Boston a city where everyone has the oppo...
Our Final Post
100 days ago, we started a blog with the goal of sharing information about how the City of Boston is run. Our audience - though we didn’t know exactly who it would be at the time - was the inco...
Assessing
Boston has nearly 165,000 real estate parcels with property types that include apartment buildings, single-family homes, office towers, dormitories, hospitals, parks, and many more. When it comes...
Boston's Digital Dozen: How DoIT Improves Constituent Experience Through Technology
THE DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY INCREASING OPPORTUNITIES & IMPROVING EXPERIENCES FOR CONSTITUENTS Though investment in talent & strengthening infrastructure directly and in partner...
Free Cash isn’t Free – Tregor and Reserves
The City of Boston maintains a variety of reserves and accounts that are required either by general accounting practices or by laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The most important of t...
NEW URBAN MECHANICS
The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics is the City’s in-house innovation lab. It’s a small core team that develops, tests, and implements new ideas to make local government more effecti...
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
From City Hall Plaza to Faneuil Hall – this department makes sure they keep functioning day in and day out. But while you might be familiar with Property Management’s responsibility for manag...
Mayor's Youth Council
THE MAYOR’S YOUTH COUNCIL The Mayor’s Youth Council (MYC) is a group of high school students hailing from every neighborhood in the city. All representatives are appointed by the Mayor and ...