Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard officials met with Fair Share representatives last October to discuss the group's demands, but the conferees would only agree to exchange information...
...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...
Harvard owns over 7 million square feet of property in Boston, including the Medical and Dental Schools and some residential housing. Fair Share estimates the tax value at $16 million, but non-profit institutions are legally exempt from property taxes except in the case of the residential holdings...
...Fair Share says the requested payment represents 20 per cent of what Harvard would owe the city were it not tax exempt...
...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...