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Boston City Councilor David Scondras '68 who convinced the subcommittee meeting presented further evidence of discrimination against gays and lesbians working in the Boston police force. He prepared a sample of the test required of all applicants to the Boston police force, in which he said there are questions "clearly designed to screen for homosexuality...
...city manager's budget proposal, which he released yesterday, calls for city expenditures of about $192 million. Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci suggested requiring Harvard and MIT to double their Payments in lieu of taxes, which now total $1.5 million, as an additional source of revenue...
...lengthy discussion of medallion transfers, Councilor Saundra Graham charged that Goldberg had already agreed to sell his 26-cab fleet to his competitor, an allegation that he denied...
...Councilor William H. Walsh criticized McDavitt for proposing in a private meeting that Goldberg give ten of his medallions to the city in return for permission to dispose of the remaining 16 as he wished. "We're asking him to make a $600,000 donation to the city," he said, noting that a taxi medallion, sold singly, can cost up to $60,000 in Cambridge...
...Councilor Alice Wolf noted that the past decade's censuses have shown a steady decrease in the city's population, from about 95,000 people in 1980 to about 87,000 in last year's census. "It seems almost impossible to me that there would be more rental units now than there were then. Where would they put them?" she asked, adding that condominium conversions have reduced the number of rentals tremendously in recent years...