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The Municipal Yardstick provides municipal decision-makers with a wealth of data and analysis in an easy to use form and at a reasonable cost. It’s approximately 340 pages cover important areas of municipal finances, including:
- Municipal Revenue
- Property Assessment and Residential and Commercial Taxes
- Proposition 2 ½ Overrides and Exclusions
- Municipal Expenditures
- Department by Department Analyses, including:
- General Government
- Education
- Police
- Fire
- Public Works
The Municipal Yardstick provides a source of data and analysis that is both broad and deep. The first sections highlight the macro level factors shaping your community, while the departmental analyses will allow you to highlight cost drivers, such as staffing levels or salaries, and examine policy outcomes. In short, it is an ideal tool for long range planning, budget allocation discussions, and negotiating collective bargaining agreements.
In each case, the Municipal Yardstick utilizes our proprietary Benchmark Peer Group methodology. The Municipal Yardstick compares your community against its Benchmark Peer Group, the twenty most similar communities in Massachusetts derived by analyzing fifteen key socio-economic, demographic and geographic attributes.
To view the table of contents for the Municipal Yardstick click here. Alternatively, if you would like to see samples of analyses for various Massachusetts communities taken from the Municipal Yardstick click here.
Please note that the Municipal Yardstick is a dynamic report. For example, the Education, Police and Fire sections of the Municipal Yardstick have been broken out into separate reports: the Education Yardstick, Police Snapshot and Fire Snapshot, respectively. If there are areas that you are particularly interested in, but you do not feel are covered by the report, please contact us and we would be happy to work with you to design exactly the analysis required by your community.
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