Wednesday Meeting on MSI Soccer Stadium take over of Julius West Middle School fields

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the background:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?id=4940

"Under the terms of the settlement agreement, MSI will provide $1.2 million to construct an artificial turf field at Walt Whitman High School. Additionally, MSI will provide as much as $2.4 million to construct turf fields at Julius West Middle School and $1.2 million to upgrade the field at Einstein High School to artificial turf. In exchange, MSI will have access to use these fields for a set number of scheduled hours per year for the next ten years, when they are not reserved for school use. The construction of the fields will be contingent on various approvals from the county and the City of Rockville."

Where is the agreement? The public has never seen it.

Why did elected Board of Education members cut a private deal with a private company? No court ordered this, Board members cut this secret deal all on their own.

If you want to see it, then ask for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
If a private company paid for round the clock use of a field the community used to play on, then there is definitely a problem - the field owner should have done its due diligence regarding community input.

No, it's not round the clock use, it's a limited number of hours per year, and the school has first priority.

It is round the clock. The fields are gone. Softball? Baseball? Football? Gone. The fields are now soccer stadiums. There are two soccer stadiums.
There are now huge stadium light poles all over the field. They are massive hazards to children running around. The edges of the stadiums are concrete. Don't
fall there. Play soccer or forget about using the playgrounds.

The stadiums are filled with silica sand a known carcinogen. Don't create any dust, don't slide, don't inhale.

The stadiums are plastic and will run 30-60 degtrees hotter than natural grass. Temperatures can reach 150 degrees well into late fall. That's a permanent 24/7 change to what used to be a field a grass.

How is this round the clock?

In exchange, MSI will have access to use these fields for a set number of scheduled hours per year for the next ten years, when they are not reserved for school use.

So when do the fields revert back to natural grass that can be used for any outdoor activity? Never.

They are round the clock soccer fields. They have a dozen poles all over them and concrete edges for concussions. JWMS students better love soccer. They can't play anything else in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the background:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?id=4940

"Under the terms of the settlement agreement, MSI will provide $1.2 million to construct an artificial turf field at Walt Whitman High School. Additionally, MSI will provide as much as $2.4 million to construct turf fields at Julius West Middle School and $1.2 million to upgrade the field at Einstein High School to artificial turf. In exchange, MSI will have access to use these fields for a set number of scheduled hours per year for the next ten years, when they are not reserved for school use. The construction of the fields will be contingent on various approvals from the county and the City of Rockville."

Where is the agreement? The public has never seen it.

Why did elected Board of Education members cut a private deal with a private company? No court ordered this, Board members cut this secret deal all on their own.

If you want to see it, then ask for it.

Really? Who are you to command the Board of Education to release a document they are hiding? What super powers do you have?

[Anonymous]

That press release is from 2016. This has been in the works for over 3 years. It's done. It's not being undone. Your meeting is 3 years too late. I haven't seen the fields, because MSI hasn't been allowed to use them yet, but MSI is certainly not using them during JW school hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That press release is from 2016. This has been in the works for over 3 years. It's done. It's not being undone. Your meeting is 3 years too late. I haven't seen the fields, because MSI hasn't been allowed to use them yet, but MSI is certainly not using them during JW school hours.

You mean the City of Rockville's meeting that they required? Tell them yourself.

3 years? What's that mean?

When MCPS said they weren't building the MSI stadiums this summer and didn't apply for permits that meant what? That meant MCPS can just blow off the City of Rockville permitting because you say so? Can everyone skip applying for building permits?

FYI: Use permits can be pulled at any time. Done can be undone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the background:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?id=4940

"Under the terms of the settlement agreement, MSI will provide $1.2 million to construct an artificial turf field at Walt Whitman High School. Additionally, MSI will provide as much as $2.4 million to construct turf fields at Julius West Middle School and $1.2 million to upgrade the field at Einstein High School to artificial turf. In exchange, MSI will have access to use these fields for a set number of scheduled hours per year for the next ten years, when they are not reserved for school use. The construction of the fields will be contingent on various approvals from the county and the City of Rockville."

Where is the agreement? The public has never seen it.

Why did elected Board of Education members cut a private deal with a private company? No court ordered this, Board members cut this secret deal all on their own.

If you want to see it, then ask for it.

Really? Who are you to command the Board of Education to release a document they are hiding? What super powers do you have?

State law.

http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/Pages/OpenGov/pia.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That press release is from 2016. This has been in the works for over 3 years. It's done. It's not being undone. Your meeting is 3 years too late. I haven't seen the fields, because MSI hasn't been allowed to use them yet, but MSI is certainly not using them during JW school hours.

You mean the City of Rockville's meeting that they required? Tell them yourself.

3 years? What's that mean?

When MCPS said they weren't building the MSI stadiums this summer and didn't apply for permits that meant what? That meant MCPS can just blow off the City of Rockville permitting because you say so? Can everyone skip applying for building permits?

FYI: Use permits can be pulled at any time. Done can be undone.

But you don't want to undo the use permits. You want to undo the actual physical fields that have already been constructed. That costs everybody money. Taxpayer money. And if the money has been spent on the fields (MSI's part of the agreement) and they don't get the use (MCPS's part of the agreement) then there will be another lawsuit in our future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That press release is from 2016. This has been in the works for over 3 years. It's done. It's not being undone. Your meeting is 3 years too late. I haven't seen the fields, because MSI hasn't been allowed to use them yet, but MSI is certainly not using them during JW school hours.

You mean the City of Rockville's meeting that they required? Tell them yourself.

3 years? What's that mean?

When MCPS said they weren't building the MSI stadiums this summer and didn't apply for permits that meant what? That meant MCPS can just blow off the City of Rockville permitting because you say so? Can everyone skip applying for building permits?

FYI: Use permits can be pulled at any time. Done can be undone.

But you don't want to undo the use permits. You want to undo the actual physical fields that have already been constructed. That costs everybody money. Taxpayer money. And if the money has been spent on the fields (MSI's part of the agreement) and they don't get the use (MCPS's part of the agreement) then there will be another lawsuit in our future.

There already was a lawsuit. It has already cost taxpayers money and will cost annual maintenance of $20,000.

Where in the MCPS budget is that $20,000 going to come from? Your child's classroom? Will your child's teacher take a pay cut to pay for this private field maintenance? Thanks for offering up teacher salaries to pay for this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the background:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?id=4940

"Under the terms of the settlement agreement, MSI will provide $1.2 million to construct an artificial turf field at Walt Whitman High School. Additionally, MSI will provide as much as $2.4 million to construct turf fields at Julius West Middle School and $1.2 million to upgrade the field at Einstein High School to artificial turf. In exchange, MSI will have access to use these fields for a set number of scheduled hours per year for the next ten years, when they are not reserved for school use. The construction of the fields will be contingent on various approvals from the county and the City of Rockville."

Where is the agreement? The public has never seen it.

Why did elected Board of Education members cut a private deal with a private company? No court ordered this, Board members cut this secret deal all on their own.

If you want to see it, then ask for it.

Really? Who are you to command the Board of Education to release a document they are hiding? What super powers do you have?

State law.

http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/Pages/OpenGov/pia.aspx

Post the document here when you get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is the background:

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?id=4940

"Under the terms of the settlement agreement, MSI will provide $1.2 million to construct an artificial turf field at Walt Whitman High School. Additionally, MSI will provide as much as $2.4 million to construct turf fields at Julius West Middle School and $1.2 million to upgrade the field at Einstein High School to artificial turf. In exchange, MSI will have access to use these fields for a set number of scheduled hours per year for the next ten years, when they are not reserved for school use. The construction of the fields will be contingent on various approvals from the county and the City of Rockville."

Where is the agreement? The public has never seen it.

Why did elected Board of Education members cut a private deal with a private company? No court ordered this, Board members cut this secret deal all on their own.

If you want to see it, then ask for it.

Really? Who are you to command the Board of Education to release a document they are hiding? What super powers do you have?

State law.

http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/Pages/OpenGov/pia.aspx

Post the document here when you get it.

You're the one who wants to see it, you ask for it.

[Anonymous]

I really wish a certain person in Potomac had a different hobby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really wish a certain person in Potomac had a different hobby.

+1 I really don't see what the big deal is. JW students will also use the field.

-signed a JWMS parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really wish a certain person in Potomac had a different hobby.

+1 I really don't see what the big deal is. JW students will also use the field.

-signed a JWMS parent

Thanks for offering up the salaries of your teachers to pay for this! The $20K a year can come right from your classroom teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really wish a certain person in Potomac had a different hobby.

+1 I really don't see what the big deal is. JW students will also use the field.

-signed a JWMS parent

Thanks for offering up the salaries of your teachers to pay for this! The $20K a year can come right from your classroom teachers.

It can or it did?

Personally, I wouldn't care if schools no longer had any sports teams. PE yes; sports teams, no. But this isn't the thing that I would raise a stink over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really wish a certain person in Potomac had a different hobby.

Good point. I hadn't made the connection, but it makes sense.