Provoking such calamities, and uncovering their causes, is one of the most useful cultural tasks a modern city can perform.

"The report lacks many significant indicators that would truly show how agencies and the city are performing."

He said, however, that the city generally performed less well than other school districts in New York State.

A record amount of street work is being done now as the city is finally performing repairs it had put off for decades.

The city performs about 37,500 marriages a year.

The city performs tax assessments under a complex series of formulas mandated by state law.

In 1990, the city of Saint-Hyacinthe performed surveys and consultations with the population.

In 1998, the city performed a cost cutting experiment by replacing all 17 routes with a demand-response system.

Once known primarily as a way station on the road to Broadway, the city still occasionally performs that role.

Other cities are performing similar face lifts, having decided that many Modernist buildings' visages have not aged well.