Enforces animal ordinances and controls nuisance wildlife. Most ordinances are dog-related, ensuring that dogs are properly vaccinated and licensed every year.

Values more than 27,000 properties and determines each property's tax. Administers over 74,000 motor vehicle and boat excise bills and oversees all property tax exemptions. Accounts for 75% of the City's funding revenue.

Pays for community events including Flag Day, the annual Christmas Parade, the Lunar New Year Festival, as well as holiday decorations.

Operates and maintains six cemeteries. Ensures that burial is handled professionally and with compassion for the living and respect for the deceased.

Conducts an annual local census of Quincy residents.

Authorizes public improvements and expenditures; adopts regulations and ordinances; reviews and approves the City's annual budget; manages related legislative tasks.

Oversees daily operations of both the Vital statistics and elections departments and manages the Licensing Board. Clerk for the City Council, responsible for keeping City records and Campaign Finance reports.

Collects and disposes of solid waste, household hazardous waste, recyclables, and yard waste in a manner that is environmentally sound, cost-effective, and safe, promoting a healthy environment.

Provides a myriad of services to our senior citizens.

Funds court-ordered judgments and negotiated settlements.

Responsible for identifying and managing grant opportunities, while ensuring compliance and offering support to various City departments. Additionally, the department administers and reports on federal funding opportunities.

Maintains and oversees all new assets in the downtown. Assets include Hancock Adams Common, Kilroy square, Generals Park, General dunford drive, McConville Way, perimeters of the Hancock parking garage.

Maintenance and repairs on the City's drainage system, as well as pumping operations during flood emergencies.

Educates close to 10,000 students attending school in eleven elementary schools, five middle schools, two high schools, an early childhood center, and a comprehensive extended education program. (Known for its long-standing tradition of innovative curriculum and excellence in public education.)

Conducts municipal, state, and federal elections. Equips precincts to vote and performs voter registration drives, processes nomination papers, and works with the Central Voter Registration System.

Coordinates the required activities to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevent, mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergency situations and disasters, both natural and man-made, utilizing an all-hazards approach.

Oversees road construction and rehabilitation projections, maintains surveying information, issues house numbers, and works with other departments to compile data and reports.

Responds to threats from fires, accidents, disasters, and medical emergencies.

Provides services and programs to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of Quincy's citizens. enforces all local and state public health and environmental regulations for prevention and control of disease; protects against environmental health hazards; designs programs to improve the health of the lives of Quincy residents.

Pays for the City's portion of employee insurance costs as well as a mandatory. Medicare program for all retired City employees seeking health insurance.

Oversees all employment matters and administers health, life, and dental benefits active and retired City employees.

Provides data-communications and telecommunications services for all City departments. Manages the networks, maintains all IT hardware, provides help desk support, and manages the City's website and phone service.

Enforces municipal ordinances covering construction, land use, retail scale and scanning accuracy, natural resource protection. The department's objective is to ensure the health and safety of Quincy's citizens.

Advises the Mayor and all department heads regarding day-to-day operational issues. Advises the City Council, Boards, and Commissions regarding their legal questions. Handles litigation pending in all courts and administrative bodies involving the City.

Offers wide selection of books, free Internet and wifi; provides public-use computers and laptops; performs print, scan and fax services; manages meeting and study rooms; plans and provides events and classes. A source of community information, books, magazines, movies, and music in both physical and electronic formats.

Division Oversees over 2,900 licenses in 77 categories and generates $400,000 in annual revenue. The board consists of the City Clerk, Health Commissioner, Inspections! Services Director, Police Chief, and Fire Chief.

Provides oversight of all City departments and manages the City's day-to-day operations. Key functions include authorizing expenditures, hiring employees, and negotiating City contracts to keep operations running smoothly day-to- day.

Covers the employer's payroll tax associated with employees paying into the Medicare program.

Maintains financial records in compliance with laws and regulations; processes payroll and payments; maintains grant and revenue records; constructs and monitors the budget.

Oversees prevention efforts throughout the City and collaborates with community and state providers the treatment and services needs of those impacted by substance use disorder.

Maintains more than 52 active and passive park locations. Cares for City beaches, tree inventory, landscaped traffic islands, and school grounds.

Supports the Planning Board with its review of new development projects; performs and supports long-range planning initiatives on land-use, housing, economic development, open space, and climate change; administers state and federal grants, including U.s. department of Housing and Urban development (HUd) grant programs.

Protects citizens and aims to attain a high quality of life for all.

Ensures that public buildings are safe, accessible, and functional. Maintains and improves existing buildings and oversees new construction, focusing on energy conservation.

Maintains and repairs streets and sidewalks; collects trash; oversees fleet fuel purchasing, snow removal, street sweeping, city drains, and water and sewer division.

Oversees all purchases made by City and school departments. Facilitates all stages of bids on buildings and non-building construction projects. encourages fiscally sound purchasing policies and ensures that all purchases are made in accordance with state and Federal law as well as all applicable City ordinances.

Organizes, leads, and conducts recreational programming for people of all ages, interests, and abilities. Assists with the planning and running of special events and celebrations year-round. Conducts prevention programming for teens and young adults.

Protects against a potential economic downturns or catastrophic events, or to offset the anticipated costs of post-retirement benefits of retired employees.

Funds and manages the City's required contribution to the Retirement Board. Quincy's public employees currently pay 9% of their salaries to the public pension system and an additional 2% on salaries over $30,000.

Funds the cost incurred by the City to plow and salt the streets during winter. This service is overseen by the Public Works Commissioner and provided by a mix of City labor and contracted services.

Funds the process to pursue delinquent property taxpayers.

Promotes visitation and works with the travel industry to drive tourism to Quincy, as well as funds marketing materials aimed at attracting visitors. This department is funded through a room tax paid by guests to the City's hotels.

Manages traffic signals, street lights, and fire alarms. Also manages all traffic improvements, engineering studies, and public parking.

Maintains municipal funds and the deposit, investment, and disbursement of these funds. This department collects property taxes and local fees and receipts that fuel the budget.

Pays benefits to those laid-off from their City positions. Quincy does not pay into the unemployment system; rather, the City pays the state reimbursement on these costs.

Provides information and assistance to Quincy's veterans, their dependents and survivors, across the full spectrum of local, state and Federal veteran and military benefits and services. Directs and implements the Mass. Ch.115 financial assistance program. Ensures grove markers and flag installation at all veterans graves.

Investigates claims; represents the City before the Industrial Accidents Board and courts; pays lost wages and medical expenses when appropriate.