Re: Fenway Center (One Kenmore, Mass Turnpike PARCEL 7)
Look I have a fucking incompement admin HR wont' let me fire right now. You never know what happened. The article actually said: "The startling postponement,...apparently resulted from miscommunication — documents that existed but went unread or unshared — between Patrick administration staff and some members of the volunteer board charged with overseeing the state’s sprawling, complex transportation system."
That's the Globe editor's smoothing over.
Further on in the article is the unavoidable fact (caps mine);
"......But Loux, not a member of that finance committee, INTERRUPTED the Transportation Department’s chief financial officer during his introduction on the project.
“Why do you say that, so sure of yourself?” asked Loux, a veteran labor leader, putting finance chief Dana Levenson on the spot after he claimed the lease payments would easily cover expected long-term maintenance costs for the support deck over the Pike once Fenway Center is finished.
“I actually address that very point in my next sentence,” Levenson said, according to a recording of the meeting. His script and a five-page summary SENT TO BOARD MEMBERS IN ADVANCE indicated that Jacobs Engineering calculated maintenance costs for the deck at $145 million for the next century, leaving a cushion of more than $80 million for unforeseen repairs, not to mention the millions in state and city real *estate, income, sales, and other taxes expected to be generated at the new complex.
The state also hired law firm McCarter & English and a real estate consultant, Lincoln Properties. Their full reports, and the summary, WERE AVAILABLE TO BOARD MEMBERS BEFORE THE MEETING UPON RQUEST, a department spokeswoman said.
Loux, WHO HAD NOT YET READ those documents, was unsatisfied. “I really think that there are a lot of unanswered questions, and I think that we ought to have a second set of eyes review the details,” she said, seeking a motion to table the vote."
No Ms. Loux, you don't interrupt someone in the middle of their presentation one sentence before they give you the answer to your question, then stumble about how you want to review details (from both a report and a summary script of what the representative was reading in real time) that have already been made available to you but you never read. Obviously, she was handed her head by the someone in the Patrick administration for being a complete idiot and she looked for the most graceful way out the next morning.
