Over five terms as mayor of Boston, Tom Menino has earned a reputation and label that might appear to lack glamor -- "urban mechanic" -- but which stirs admiration among those who care about city-government operations. Getting the nuts and bolts of a city's day-to-day work done is a prerequisite for everything else.
These days, however, those who watch governance across the country are abuzz about something that Menino is doing that is changing those old-school perceptions of him: his Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. MONUM infuses technology, community participation and enhanced citizen responsiveness into the urban-mechanic model. Mayor Menino now stands at the forefront of urban innovation.
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