Word: town-gown
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Last Monday, the city and its five universities and colleges released their report on town-gown relations. The groundbreaking document calls for greater communication between Cambridge and its universities and easier access to University resources for city residents...
...town-gown task force created to bring the municipal government together with Cambridge's five universities and colleges issued its final report to the Cambridge City Council last night, and recommended that the institutions work more closely together to help meet the needs of the city...
...council also approved a new in-lieu-of-tax agreement with Harvard, setting a new precedent for town-gown relations. As part of the agreement, Harvard will contribute to city coffers to compensate Cambridge for commercial properties the University buys and takes off the tax rolls. That agreement was an important acknowledgment of the University's impact upon the city...
Wolf also formed a special committee on town-gown relations. Created in the wake of the new in-lieu-of-tax agreement, the commission gives city servants and administrators from Harvard and other local universities a chance to discuss ways to work together and address problems of the city...
...councillors earn praise from many sides for reforms, including filling the long-empty post of police commissioner, negotiating a landmark in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Harvard and forming the mayor's committee to study town-gown issues, appointing new heads of the Department of Public Works and the Water Department and passing an ordinance requiring condom vending machines in Cambridge restaurants...