Christina L. Marin, another task force member and a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School, highlighted the absence of a $500,000 public safety budget for cameras and other equipment that had been requested by members of the Boston Police Department and endorsed by the task force.

Kairos Shen, chief city planner for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, said that he and other members of the BRA are satisfied with the amount Harvard is proposing for the community benefits package. He said that this package raises the bar for developments by other large institutions in the area, noting that Harvard’s newest package provides more money per square foot than any other university’s.

Task force members agreed to reassess the budgets for individual projects within the package as well as the total funding amount at a task force meeting next week.

—Staff writer Marco J. Barber Grossi can be reached at mbarbergrossi@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @marco_jbg.