Boston Finance Commission

The Boston Finance Commission (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 major part). 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.^{[citation needed]}

Public reports

The watchdog agency's reports are available to the public at:

Boston Finance Commission

152 North Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02109 USA

tel 617 635-2202

email matt.cahill at cityofboston.gov

Public meetings

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

Authorizing statutes

Finance Commission
Massachusetts Acts of 1908 c562
Massachusetts Acts of 1909 c486 s17
Massachusetts Acts of 1964 c740 s3
pages 22-23 at http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/pdfs/2007_City_Charter.pdf

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. pp. 182–183. http://books.google.com/?id=vCRck2seCfAC&dq=boston+1822+to+1922. 

• "Non-Mayoral Departments". pp. 425–430. http://cityofboston.gov/budget/pdfs/volume3_2008/13_NonMay_dep.pdf. 

• Connolly, James J (1998-09-15). The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925. Harvard University Press. pp. pp. 80. ISBN 067490950X. http://books.google.com/?id=d579an4Ah0oC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22boston+finance+commission%22. 

• Weber, Gustavus Adolphus (1919). Organized Efforts for the Improvement of Methods of Administration in the United States. D. Appleton and Company. pp. pp. 101–200. http://books.google.com/?id=4eC7xbENlfQC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=boston+%22finance+commission%22+acts+1909. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 

• Shepard, Harvey N. (1908). The Boston Finance Commission. pp. pp. 122–130. doi:10.2307/3038519. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1520-8605(1908)5%3C122%3ATBFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 

• The Municipal Register for 1918. Boston: City of Boston Printing Department. 1918. pp. pp. 107–108. http://books.google.com/?id=Nho1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=%22finance+commission%22+%22acts+of+1908%22. 

• The Finance Commission of the City of Boston, ed (1911). Reports and Communications (6 ed.). Boston: City of Boston Printing Department. http://books.google.com/?id=LHwAAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 2007-10-17.