Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) 2019 data-driven performance

Learn how EEA uses data to improve your experience with state government.

The Baker-Polito administration is working hard to improve your experience with state government. To that end, EEA has been asked to identify our critical constituent-facing services and to track our ongoing efforts to improve their delivery. By selecting key metrics and measuring performance against annual targets, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need as simply, efficiently, and transparently as possible.

You can find out which metrics our agencies are tracking and how they’re performing on this page.

EEA's Calendar Year 2019 performance

Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY19 Performance
Urban trees planted	8,000 additional trees planted	7,578 tree planted (95% of target)

 

Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY19 Performance
% of permit applications decided on time	96.5%	95.9%

 

Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR)

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY19 Performance
Number of visits to the MassGrown Map. The MassGrown Map connects the general public to agricultural outlets and activities, and thus is an indicator of the public’s interest in purchasing locally grown products.	5% increase in visits to the MassGrown Map (from 317,000 visits in 2018 to 333,000 in 2019)	-29% decrease in page views (from 317,000 in 2018 to 224,679 in 2019)

 

Department of Fish & Game (DFG)

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY Performance
Acres of active wildlife habitat management performed on state Wildlife Management Areas managed by DFG’s Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.	1200 acres	2,337 acres

 

Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) 

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY19 Performance
Campground participation; number of nights reserved	Increase number of nightly reservations by 6% from the CY18 numbers	3.46% increase. DCR saw an increase of 7,731 night reservations (58% of hitting target) for a total of 230,988 reservations in 2019.

 

Department of Energy Resources (DOER)

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY19 Performance
# of municipalities provided with assistance to lower their cost of energy and emissions, provide clean energy infrastructure, and technical assistance to achieve their clean energy goals.	150 municipalities assisted	234 municipalities assisted

 

Department of Public Utilities (DPU) 

CY19 Metric	CY19 Target	CY19 Performance
The Transportation Division will increase the number of tow company audits by 60% for calendar year 2019.	In 2018, the Department audited 5 tow companies per month. Increase by 60% to audit 8 companies per month in 2019.	The department increased the number of completed tow company audits from 4.25 in 2018 to 5.08 audits per month (a 20% increase).