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City Criticizes Low Harvard Payments

councillors" said Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72.

But Harvard's representatives are less than inclined to give more money in the form of in-lieu-of tax payments to the city, citing the fact that Harvard is expanding elsewhere and that it gives money to programs at its own discretion.

"Should there be a change in Harvard's physical presence in Cambridge-then it would be appropriate to consider changes to our pilot agreement" Mary Power, Harvard's senior director of community relations, said yesterday.

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And in a letter dated Feb. 13 from Paul Grogan, Harvard's Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs, Harvard fully enumerated its position on increasing its in-lieu-of-tax payments-the agreement made in 1990 will continue on an "annual rollover basis" through 2010, as originally planned, as far as Harvard is concerned.

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