Fiscal Year 2019 Budget

Beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019

Last updated: 4/11/18

Street Lights

The Street Lights program is responsible for the maintenance of streetlights. The program provides modern, cost efficient and effective street lighting services to protect the safety of the general and traveling public on Boston's streets and in the City's parks and playgrounds.


John Yetman, Manager, Organization 311700

Street Lights - Appropriations


title FY16 Expenditure FY17 Expenditure FY18 Appropriation FY19 Adopted Inc/Dec 18 vs 19
Personnel Services 2,905,879 2,741,250 3,033,249 3,183,519 150,270
Contractual Services 6,012,967 5,314,726 7,313,237 7,615,218 301,981
Supplies & Materials 98,651 139,606 113,430 103,358 -10,072
Current Chgs & Oblig 3,493 2,028 20,000 20,000 0
Equipment 448,288 547,322 726,433 512,727 -213,706
Other 1,242,853 480,743 400,000 400,000 0
Total 10,712,131 9,225,675 11,606,349 11,834,822 228,473

Street Lights
Performance Goals

Goal:

Efficiently deliver services

Measure FY16 Actual FY17 Actual FY18 Target FY19 Target
Personnel hours per Street light outage repair 2 1.3


Goal:

Improve neighborhood quality of life

Measure FY16 Actual FY17 Actual FY18 Target FY19 Target
# of street light outage constituent requests received 6,085 5,519 3,732 5,400
% of street light outages addressed on time 79% 66% 63% 80%
Average time to complete a street light outage request (days) 19 58 34 10