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Mayor Wants Trust Lawsuit Dismissed

BOSTON-The mayor's lawyers seek to have the South Boston Betterment Trust's lawsuit against his office dismissed. The mayor nullified an agreement the trust made that would have given South Boston millions of dollars in linkage fees from developers.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on August 30, 2001

BOSTON-The nearly 11-month old war raging between the mayor’s office here and the South Boston Betterment Trust continued to heat up as lawyers for Mayor Thomas M. Menino sought to have the lawsuit brought against him by the trust thrown out of court.

The trust sued the mayor for abandoning the agreement he made with the trust three years ago. The agreement was signed in 1998 on behalf of the Menino administration by Thomas N. O’Brien, then the Boston Redevelopment Authority director. James M. Kelly, city council’s then-president, state senator Stephen F. Lynch and state representative John A. Hart Jr., all of South Boston, also signed the agreement creating the trust. “The mayor was involved in setting up the trust and it was supposed to build affordable housing,” Carole Brennan, press secretary for the mayor’s office, tells GlobeSt.com. “That’s not what it was doing.”

Last summer, the mayor nullified an agreement the trust had made that would have enabled the South Boston neighborhood to receive millions of dollars in linkage fees from developers looking to build on the waterfront. Linkage fees are payments developers make to the city to compensate for the inconvenience of developing large projects in the area. Calls to the South Boston Betterment Trust by GlobeSt.com were not returned by press time but reportedly the trust contends that the mayor was aware of the its activities but abandoned the trust when it became politically uncomfortable for him to continue to be associated with it.

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