DCPS students shafted again - sign petition to keep Jelleff field public

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

Resolution opposing the extension passed easily.

Not surprising because it’s a rotten deal for DC that only benefits Maret, but does the resolution have any effect to reverse the Maret deal?

It keeps the pressure on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

Resolution opposing the extension passed easily.

Not surprising because it’s a rotten deal for DC that only benefits Maret, but does the resolution have any effect to reverse the Maret deal?

It keeps the pressure on.

Maret parent Jack Evans is being pushed to resign because of his many corruption charges. If he goes does the Maret deal have a better chance of being reversed because Bowser won’t want to be associated with his deal?

[Anonymous]

Bowser sadly just keeps saying the deal is done. Keeping the pressure on may help get other options for kids in the area and stop future similar backroom deals - but the odds of this reversing are slim to none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser sadly just keeps saying the deal is done. Keeping the pressure on may help get other options for kids in the area and stop future similar backroom deals - but the odds of this reversing are slim to none.

The council has some latitude to review whether the deal was properly transacted.

[Anonymous]

Bowser needs to go. She’s the old DC attitude that DC’s assets are hers to dole out as it pleases her. She is not serving the city well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those in the neighborhood, the Palisades Citizens' Association will be discussing Jelleff at their monthly Town Hall today (Wednesday) at the Palisades Rec Center from 7pm to 8:30pm. Councilmember Robert White will also be in attendance.

Resolution opposing the extension passed easily.

Not surprising because it’s a rotten deal for DC that only benefits Maret, but does the resolution have any effect to reverse the Maret deal?

I agree. Tear up the deal and pay Maret back its money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser needs to go. She’s the old DC attitude that DC’s assets are hers to dole out as it pleases her. She is not serving the city well.

She’s Mayor Muriel Marion Barry Bowser.

[Anonymous]

Hardy field access in exchange for sending the archaic urban school uniforms back to the Nineties? Now that would be the art of a deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bowser sadly just keeps saying the deal is done. Keeping the pressure on may help get other options for kids in the area and stop future similar backroom deals - but the odds of this reversing are slim to none.

DC backs out of "done deals" with schools and sports teams all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hardy field access in exchange for sending the archaic urban school uniforms back to the Nineties? Now that would be the art of a deal.

You've been arguing about that for so long that uniforms are no longer archaic; they are back in vogue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser sadly just keeps saying the deal is done. Keeping the pressure on may help get other options for kids in the area and stop future similar backroom deals - but the odds of this reversing are slim to none.

DC backs out of "done deals" with schools and sports teams all the time.

AMEN. Just ask any school that has undergone renovations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser sadly just keeps saying the deal is done. Keeping the pressure on may help get other options for kids in the area and stop future similar backroom deals - but the odds of this reversing are slim to none.

DC backs out of "done deals" with schools and sports teams all the time.

The reason the original deal was done as an encumbrance on the deed and not a contract or MOU was that Maret had no confidence DC wouldn't try to back out once the field was built. DPR has done that to other partners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hardy field access in exchange for sending the archaic urban school uniforms back to the Nineties? Now that would be the art of a deal.

You've been arguing about that for so long that uniforms are no longer archaic; they are back in vogue.

Does Hardy get to schedule its midnight basketball program at Jelleff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser sadly just keeps saying the deal is done. Keeping the pressure on may help get other options for kids in the area and stop future similar backroom deals - but the odds of this reversing are slim to none.

DC backs out of "done deals" with schools and sports teams all the time.

The reason the original deal was done as an encumbrance on the deed and not a contract or MOU was that Maret had no confidence DC wouldn't try to back out once the field was built. DPR has done that to other partners.

Really? Elissa Silverman said at the hearing it was to avoid Council review.

[Anonymous]

Yeah wasn't the deal done as:
- non-contract avoids CONTRACT review
- $950,000 avoids MILLION DOLLAR review
- 19 years avoids 20 YEAR review

Classic insider knowledge/insider move. YOU KNOW THIS IS BS.