Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January 13, Harvard would not allow Fair Share to attend the annual meeting of the directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA) even though the topic of discussion was "Community Interaction with Boston and Cambridge...
...that time, Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said Harvard would increase its payments to Boston if Fair Share could prove Harvard takes more from the city than it gives back in services and payments...
...month later, the Boston City Council endorsed a resolution calling on Harvard to increase its payments to the city in order to ease "the undue hardship on city taxpayers." Rev. Thomas D. Corrigan, co-chairman of the Boston Fair Share tax coalition, feels the resolution gives his group more credibility, but he points out that the City Council has no authority to force Harvard into making the payments...
Schmidt sent a letter to Fair Share saying there was no time on the agenda to include Fair Share's request to discuss in-lieu-of-tax payments. The group showed up at the meeting anyway, but University officials would only allow it to distribute leaflets before the meeting began. After Fair Share left the campus, Schmidt was able to find time at the end of the meeting for the AHA to discuss the issue...
...Fair Share's tax coalition has been concentrating for the last few months on the Classification Amendment which is a referendum on the November ballot in Massachusetts. The amendment would change the State constitution's language on property assessment...