Boston Finance Commission

The Boston Finance Commission (known as FinComm) is an agency that monitors finances for the city of Boston. It is concerned with appropriations, loans, expenditures, accounts, and methods of administration affecting the city of Boston and Suffolk County (of which Boston is the county seat). It conducts investigations, and makes reports to the mayor, city council, and state governor, in addition to its annual January report to the state legislature.

Public meetings

Public meetings of the FinComm are open to observers interested in municipal government.

References

• April 2008 http://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/video_library.asp?id=1050
• Koren, John (1922). Boston, 1822 to 1922, The Story of Its Government and Principal Activities During One Hundred Years. Boston: City of Boston Printing Department. pp. 182–183. 
• "Non-Mayoral Departments" (PDF). pp. 425–430. 
• Connolly, James J (1998-09-15). The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925. Harvard University Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-674-90950-X. 

• Weber, Gustavus Adolphus (1919). Organized Efforts for the Improvement of Methods of Administration in the United States. D. Appleton and Company. pp. 101–200. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 

• Shepard, Harvey N. (1908). The Boston Finance Commission. pp. 122–130. doi:10.2307/3038519. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 
• The Municipal Register for 1918. Boston: City of Boston Printing Department. 1918. pp. 107–108. 

• The Finance Commission of the City of Boston, ed. (1911). Reports and Communications (6 ed.). Boston: City of Boston Printing Department. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 

External links

• official website
• Reports of the Boston Finance Commission, via Hathi Trust.

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