Some of the councillors argued that the payments of the universities should increase proportionally to city taxes.
"The residents of the city should feel that as their taxes go up, the in-lieu-of-tax payments should go up, too," said Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio.
Many councillors said that this year's meeting with university representatives was no different than any other year.
"The conversation has a certain sameness about it, time after time after time" said Councillor Kathleen C. Born.
But citing Harvard's record endowment, and MIT's recent acquisition of Tech Square, the councillors all agreed that each university owed more to the city.
Several councillors expressed interest in meeting with one another to put together a unified plan on how to deal with Harvard and MIT.
"I want to have a very different conversation-and have it with the
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