Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia is pushing for the Wu administration to show her the money that it’s spending on the city’s taxpayer-funded half of a public-private plan to rehab White Stadium for a professional soccer team.
Mejia plans to introduce a resolution at Wednesday’s City Council meeting “in support of demanding updated cost estimates for the White Stadium project” — a figure the mayor during her reelection campaign committed to disclosing by the end of the year.
“Boston faces significant fiscal pressures, including a capped property tax levy, declining commercial property values, rising fixed costs, and state aid that has not kept pace with inflation, which limit the city’s flexibility and heighten the need for accurate cost estimates before committing substantial public res

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