RE “STATE may absorb $30m on project built over Pike’’ (Page One, Aug. 20): The fiscal ignorance surrounding Fenway Center and its $121 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies is staggering, and mirrors the fiscal debacle at Columbus Center. No agency has done an independent, fair-market-value property appraisal. Transportation officials admit they don’t know the cost to design and build the tunnels. The developer hasn’t disclosed all the public subsidies to be requested. City officials won’t disclose their calculations showing how many city property tax dollars would be lost, and when. No government agency has performed an independent public audit of the costs, revenues, profits, and subsidies.
The public needs details from Auditor Joseph deNucci, Treasurer Timothy Cahill, Boston Finance Commission director Jeff Conley, the Legislature’s Post-Audit and Oversight Committee, the Common Cause director, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation president, and others.
NED FLAHERTY
Boston 
