Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overseer of the unique and practical program that allows indigents to work off their tax bills in part-time services to the city (they receive no cash) is David Hargreaves, 34. Says Hargreaves, saying it all: "These people are rich resources." Mary Haley is, anyway. Three years ago, a divorce propelled her into the baffling world of taxes, mortgages, bills. "I knew a lot about taking care of babies," she says, "but I didn't know much about anything else." Untrained, with only a high school education, she was stunned when the $1,100 city property tax bill arrived...
...managed to get a part-time job (20 hours a week) answering the telephone for the crisis-intervention support unit at $4.80 an hour. Her total annual income: $5,400 plus $3,000 in child support from her ex-husband. How to erase that tax bill? "The in-kind program was my only hope." She was hired at $4.30 an hour to do clerical and case work for Hartford's juvenile crime prevention center. In her cramped, cluttered office -a stainless steel desk, two telephones, unvacuumed carpet, small white teapot, a naked light fixture overhead, with...
...crisp, fresh, lavender dress, is sitting in her small, neat-as-a-pin duplex. "Something about the in-kind program came with the tax notice. I hadn't worked since I had been in the wheelchair, but I knew I could." Iva is dark-haired, feisty and determined. She went to city hall, hired on as a tax division clerk, particularly to process parking tickets. When Hargreaves offered to have her picked up and returned home each day, Iva rebelled: "I'll take care of myself." An independent Vermont Yankee, she drives...
Doris lives on $208 a month, "and it's hard to get in the job market. Without this program I would have lost the house. There was no way I could have paid those taxes." At city hall Doris read papers and documents to a blind city official, did some filing and phone answering and worked in the parking-ticket division. The work made her aware that she could handle a regular job if only someone would hire her. Says she: "Without a job, you get into a rut you wouldn't believe. I've been turned...
...more of the city's elderly and handicapped were losing their only asset, their homes, because of steadily rising tax bills. It was the city's obligation to help, said Carbone. Since then, Hartford has spent between $22,800 and $66,000 a year for the program. The unions haven't complained, since no budgeted jobs are involved. There are usually about 100 eligible clients, and if there should be more who are worthy, "we'll go after more money," says Hargreaves. "We're doing more than saving people's homes...