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...weeks ago forty staff workers and a dozen members of the Cities Demonstration Agency (CDA) Board invaded City Hall, hoping to confront and pin down City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin on three specific issues-two contracts and Model Cities pay raises-that illustrated the clash of power over the program...
...Model Cities Board in Cambridge contains some fiery people who are not the least bit intimidated by Corcoran's intransigence or Cronin's retorts during the sit-in. The real issue, it seemed, was deeper than the two contracts and the pay raise that had been lying dormant on Corcoran's desk for weeks. To them, it was a question of power. Conflicting interpretations of the CDA enabling legislation asked "Who is going to exercise the authority over Cambridge Model Cities, the Board or the City Manager...
...response to Cronin's opinion stating that "the Board acts merely in an advisory capacity. The City Manager is not a rubber stamp. He has the power to eliminate the Board at any time," the CDA personnel have quickly mobilized...
...rent control law passed by the Council in September was supposed to have rolled back rents to March 1970 levels. However, nothing in government ever happens that fast. City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin have continually delayed putting the law into effect. First Cronin, as interim rent control administrator, issued a temporary adjustment of all rents to the current level, delaying the roll-back provision. When he finally announced that roll-back would go into effect on December 1 he confused everyone by issuing 158 temporary adjustments of rents to the current level on the basis...
...point in the hearing, Cronin demanded that members of the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC)-who were carrying signs and chanting-leave the auditorium. They refused to leave but stopped chanting, and the hearing continued...