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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The original agreement from ten years ago is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycNlJMWbHeYHXEp05bI--O3JMLhAflAT/view?usp=sharing

No mention of an extension. If it in fact exists it must have been added later.

The schedule of use (attachment B) is pretty limited for Maret. They are supposed to use regular permitting outside of the times listed. Admittedly it’s the best times — 3-530 weekdays from Labor Day to November, and March to May. But it’s not exclusive.

I hope WaPo picks this up!

[Anonymous]

Why are the angry mobs assuming that Hardy is entitled to unfettered access to a DPR facility? Last time I checked DPR was separate from DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are the angry mobs assuming that Hardy is entitled to unfettered access to a DPR facility? Last time I checked DPR was separate from DCPS.

DC law says DPR has to give priority to DCPS and public charter schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The original agreement from ten years ago is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycNlJMWbHeYHXEp05bI--O3JMLhAflAT/view?usp=sharing

No mention of an extension. If it in fact exists it must have been added later.

Thank you for sharing this. Very helpful. So three properties were purchased together in 2010 for $20 million. I've seen mention in this thread of the Maret property being purchased for a specific amount but didn't see that in the announcement or the agreement.

Maret does seem to have an extension/renewal in the original agreement. It says if the easement is extended or renewed the use agreement is automatically extended or renewed. Is a copy of the easement available?

There's no right to an extension in the agreement. In the McKenna article he quotes Talbot as saying they have a right to an extension. Then she refused to send him a copy of the agreement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are the angry mobs assuming that Hardy is entitled to unfettered access to a DPR facility? Last time I checked DPR was separate from DCPS.

So you think different departments in the same company are ‘separate.’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The original agreement from ten years ago is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycNlJMWbHeYHXEp05bI--O3JMLhAflAT/view?usp=sharing

No mention of an extension. If it in fact exists it must have been added later.

Thank you for sharing this. Very helpful. So three properties were purchased together in 2010 for $20 million. I've seen mention in this thread of the Maret property being purchased for a specific amount but didn't see that in the announcement or the agreement.

Maret does seem to have an extension/renewal in the original agreement. It says if the easement is extended or renewed the use agreement is automatically extended or renewed. Is a copy of the easement available?

There's no right to an extension in the agreement. In the McKenna article he quotes Talbot as saying they have a right to an extension. Then she refused to send him a copy of the agreement.

That ‘agreement’ posted isn’t the entire agreement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are the angry mobs assuming that Hardy is entitled to unfettered access to a DPR facility? Last time I checked DPR was separate from DCPS.

So you think different departments in the same company are ‘separate.’

You must be new here. Bureaucratic infighting in the DC government, including between DCPS in the DPR, is legendary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

Remember, instead, that Maret and DPR made a deal, into which both Maret and DPR put something of value (recall that DC bought the land!)

That deal is expiring. No party is owed anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

Remember, instead, that Maret and DPR made a deal, into which both Maret and DPR put something of value (recall that DC bought the land!)

That deal is expiring. No party is owed anything.

Except that there is an agreement to extend the deal. Just because this very one-sided thread and one-sided Deadspin article keep trading in innuendo and false information that everyone seems so gleeful to absorb, doesn’t mean there isn’t more information to consider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

This has nothing to do with Marion Barry. DPR and Maret made the deal in 2009, when DC coffees were already flush with cash in spite of the Financial Crisis.

This was a corrupt deal from Day 1, and has Jack Evans’s slimy fingers all over it. This was how he got his kid into Maret - the cost of admission.

Further, it’s completely insane that there is no public tender process for the land. That alone conflicts with DC contracting rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

This has nothing to do with Marion Barry. DPR and Maret made the deal in 2009, when DC coffees were already flush with cash in spite of the Financial Crisis.

This was a corrupt deal from Day 1, and has Jack Evans’s slimy fingers all over it. This was how he got his kid into Maret - the cost of admission.

Further, it’s completely insane that there is no public tender process for the land. That alone conflicts with DC contracting rules.

Said with authority but not an ounce of proof. Just innuendo and ‘feelings’, not facts. This entire thread has been an exercise in mob-mentality and misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

Remember, instead, that Maret and DPR made a deal, into which both Maret and DPR put something of value (recall that DC bought the land!)

That deal is expiring. No party is owed anything.

Except that there is an agreement to extend the deal. Just because this very one-sided thread and one-sided Deadspin article keep trading in innuendo and false information that everyone seems so gleeful to absorb, doesn’t mean there isn’t more information to consider.

There is an agreement to extend between Maret and a guy who is supposed to represent the citizens of DC, but the citizens of DC are speaking up — and have been — to say that the deal is far from in DC’s best interests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The original agreement from ten years ago is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycNlJMWbHeYHXEp05bI--O3JMLhAflAT/view?usp=sharing

No mention of an extension. If it in fact exists it must have been added later.

Thank you for sharing this. Very helpful. So three properties were purchased together in 2010 for $20 million. I've seen mention in this thread of the Maret property being purchased for a specific amount but didn't see that in the announcement or the agreement.

Maret does seem to have an extension/renewal in the original agreement. It says if the easement is extended or renewed the use agreement is automatically extended or renewed. Is a copy of the easement available?

There's no right to an extension in the agreement. In the McKenna article he quotes Talbot as saying they have a right to an extension. Then she refused to send him a copy of the agreement.

That ‘agreement’ posted isn’t the entire agreement.

Then please post the entire agreement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Talbott says that Maret is aware of the complaints from public school advocates, and so last year agreed to let Hardy use the turf field from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “on most Wednesdays.”"

Wowie. How isolated and tone deaf can that woman be? It's laughable.

Maret let’s Stoddert soccer use their home field on the weekends.

I don’t know whether there is a right to extend this agreement or not. But before piling on Maret (and we have no connection to the school at all), Remember that Muray parents and the school ponied up substantial money to renovate Jeleff field. This was at a time when DCPS couldn’t buy toilet paper for the schools, DPR couldn’t cut the grass, and Marion Barry didn’t do much more than blow a crack pipe .

Maret rents their field to Stoddert and other groups. For a lot of money.