Maret Athletic Fields

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The deal was pretty straightforward: the school used private funds to pay for the complete rehabilitation of a field that was in disrepair, due to lack of public funds. In exchange for the entire revitalization, the private school was able to use the fields for two hours a day during weekdays. The public cost was zero dollars and the “price” that the public paid was not being able to use the field that had already been unusable for two hours, several days a week, several months a year.

Um... you seem to have left out the part where DC bought the land for $15 million while Maret spent $700,000 to fix it up.

From the 1940s through 2009, the Jelleff Recreation Center was owned and operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. However, due to economic conditions, in 2009 the Boys and Girls Club began a request for proposal (RFP) process to sell the Jelleff Recreation Center. Before the process could be finalized, the District paid $20 million to acquire Jelleff and two other recreation centers, bringing the recreation center into public ownership. However, the field needed a significant amount of investment and maintenance to be usable year-round and in inclement weather.

Rather than investing the $2.5 million needed to build an artificial turf field to be administered by DPR like most other public parks, the District struck an agreement with Maret School, located almost two miles away in Woodley Park, in which the school would pay for the new field and other improvements in exchange for 10 years of priority rights to use the fields between 3:30 pm and 6 pm on weekday afternoons (2 pm on Wednesdays) during the fall and spring, all day the last two weeks of August, and 10 Saturdays a year

https://ggwash.org/view/73814/a-field-in-georgetown-forces-a-community-to-wrestle-with-the-impact-of-public-spaces-and-private-money#:~:text=It%20all%20started%20in%202009,round%20and%20in%20inclement%20weather.

Why should anyone believe a word you post? You clearly have some type of agenda.

DPR does not have the budget to renovate and maintain the field. Hardy is a Middle School and does not have the need for a field like a high school. Hardy can use Duke Ellington School Field but does not because there is no demand from Hardy for a large field.

DPR has a very small budget and DCPS has a huge budget. Oh I know let’s take $2.5 million out of Hardy’s budget for Jelleff field. Maybe Hardy can also pay for a new rec center(which is in really bad shape)? We all know what would happen if Hardy got control of the field. No maintenance and no accessibility. The field would sit unused during school hours, after hours, weekends and all summer.

The bottom line is Hardy does not use the field by choice. Hardy does not want to spend any money on the field. Hardy has the space available on the schools grounds to make a regulation field. Hardy has a field, a track, tennis courts and a large parking lot. Renovate Hardy’s outside area and build what you want. DCPS is not short of funds.

Maret lets the neighbors and sport clubs use its indoor and outside facilities at the school. Should that be stopped also?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The deal was pretty straightforward: the school used private funds to pay for the complete rehabilitation of a field that was in disrepair, due to lack of public funds. In exchange for the entire revitalization, the private school was able to use the fields for two hours a day during weekdays. The public cost was zero dollars and the “price” that the public paid was not being able to use the field that had already been unusable for two hours, several days a week, several months a year.

Um... you seem to have left out the part where DC bought the land for $15 million while Maret spent $700,000 to fix it up.

From the 1940s through 2009, the Jelleff Recreation Center was owned and operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. However, due to economic conditions, in 2009 the Boys and Girls Club began a request for proposal (RFP) process to sell the Jelleff Recreation Center. Before the process could be finalized, the District paid $20 million to acquire Jelleff and two other recreation centers, bringing the recreation center into public ownership. However, the field needed a significant amount of investment and maintenance to be usable year-round and in inclement weather.

Rather than investing the $2.5 million needed to build an artificial turf field to be administered by DPR like most other public parks, the District struck an agreement with Maret School, located almost two miles away in Woodley Park, in which the school would pay for the new field and other improvements in exchange for 10 years of priority rights to use the fields between 3:30 pm and 6 pm on weekday afternoons (2 pm on Wednesdays) during the fall and spring, all day the last two weeks of August, and 10 Saturdays a year

https://ggwash.org/view/73814/a-field-in-georgetown-forces-a-community-to-wrestle-with-the-impact-of-public-spaces-and-private-money#:~:text=It%20all%20started%20in%202009,round%20and%20in%20inclement%20weather.

Why should anyone believe a word you post? You clearly have some type of agenda.

DPR does not have the budget to renovate and maintain the field. Hardy is a Middle School and does not have the need for a field like a high school. Hardy can use Duke Ellington School Field but does not because there is no demand from Hardy for a large field.

DPR has a very small budget and DCPS has a huge budget. Oh I know let’s take $2.5 million out of Hardy’s budget for Jelleff field. Maybe Hardy can also pay for a new rec center(which is in really bad shape)? We all know what would happen if Hardy got control of the field. No maintenance and no accessibility. The field would sit unused during school hours, after hours, weekends and all summer.

The bottom line is Hardy does not use the field by choice. Hardy does not want to spend any money on the field. Hardy has the space available on the schools grounds to make a regulation field. Hardy has a field, a track, tennis courts and a large parking lot. Renovate Hardy’s outside area and build what you want. DCPS is not short of funds.

Maret lets the neighbors and sport clubs use its indoor and outside facilities at the school. Should that be stopped also?

Once Maret finally got its cheap-o private school claws out of a DC public field and DC was no longer bound by the multi-year backroom deal brokered by corrupt DC Council Member and Maret parent Jack Evans, DC put $28 million into renovating Jelleff. So Maret can shut it about the paltry $700k they put into the field over a multi-year period--all they did was prevent DC residents and neighborhood kids from using the field.

https://georgetowner.com/articles/2024/05/06/final-jelleff-renovation-plans-revealed-by-dpr/

[Anonymous]

Maret is using artificial turf and cuts down heritage trees to get their fields.

[Anonymous]

As I was saying why a school would do that ? This is not a for profit school like the one that went bankrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret is using artificial turf and cuts down heritage trees to get their fields.

I am not surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret is using artificial turf and cuts down heritage trees to get their fields.

You must be one of the old ladies that held the petroleum based banners out front of Maret last year to yell at 5 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maret is using artificial turf and cuts down heritage trees to get their fields.

You must be one of the old ladies that held the petroleum based banners out front of Maret last year to yell at 5 year olds.

If they have infertility problems in the future they will understand why we were protesting.

[Anonymous]

I am so glad that the certificate of occupancy was not issued for the new field. I was very actively involved to make that possible. Traffic is going to be hell near my house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The deal was pretty straightforward: the school used private funds to pay for the complete rehabilitation of a field that was in disrepair, due to lack of public funds. In exchange for the entire revitalization, the private school was able to use the fields for two hours a day during weekdays. The public cost was zero dollars and the “price” that the public paid was not being able to use the field that had already been unusable for two hours, several days a week, several months a year.

Um... you seem to have left out the part where DC bought the land for $15 million while Maret spent $700,000 to fix it up.

From the 1940s through 2009, the Jelleff Recreation Center was owned and operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. However, due to economic conditions, in 2009 the Boys and Girls Club began a request for proposal (RFP) process to sell the Jelleff Recreation Center. Before the process could be finalized, the District paid $20 million to acquire Jelleff and two other recreation centers, bringing the recreation center into public ownership. However, the field needed a significant amount of investment and maintenance to be usable year-round and in inclement weather.

Rather than investing the $2.5 million needed to build an artificial turf field to be administered by DPR like most other public parks, the District struck an agreement with Maret School, located almost two miles away in Woodley Park, in which the school would pay for the new field and other improvements in exchange for 10 years of priority rights to use the fields between 3:30 pm and 6 pm on weekday afternoons (2 pm on Wednesdays) during the fall and spring, all day the last two weeks of August, and 10 Saturdays a year

https://ggwash.org/view/73814/a-field-in-georgetown-forces-a-community-to-wrestle-with-the-impact-of-public-spaces-and-private-money#:~:text=It%20all%20started%20in%202009,round%20and%20in%20inclement%20weather.

Why should anyone believe a word you post? You clearly have some type of agenda.

DPR does not have the budget to renovate and maintain the field. Hardy is a Middle School and does not have the need for a field like a high school. Hardy can use Duke Ellington School Field but does not because there is no demand from Hardy for a large field.

DPR has a very small budget and DCPS has a huge budget. Oh I know let’s take $2.5 million out of Hardy’s budget for Jelleff field. Maybe Hardy can also pay for a new rec center(which is in really bad shape)? We all know what would happen if Hardy got control of the field. No maintenance and no accessibility. The field would sit unused during school hours, after hours, weekends and all summer.

The bottom line is Hardy does not use the field by choice. Hardy does not want to spend any money on the field. Hardy has the space available on the schools grounds to make a regulation field. Hardy has a field, a track, tennis courts and a large parking lot. Renovate Hardy’s outside area and build what you want. DCPS is not short of funds.

Maret lets the neighbors and sport clubs use its indoor and outside facilities at the school. Should that be stopped also?

You have no idea what you are talking about. Hardy uses its own tiny field, Duke Ellington Field, and Maret like the one afternoon a week it gets it. In particular, Hardy uses Ellington for track, cross country, soccer and more (and other schools use Ellington too -- although no one has been using Elllington since last winter because it is under renovation.) Neighbor and the community also uses Hardy's poor excuse for a field and Hardy's tennis court.

Hardy does *not* have room for a regulation field. Hardy does *not* have any sort of money to choose to spend it on something like Jelleff -- it's budget it part of DCPS's budget, which is part of DC's budget. DC makes those decisions--and Bowser decided to grift to Maret.

Also, it makes -- and has always made -- far more sense for Hardy to walk across the street to Jelleff, and for Maret's buses to continue for a few more blocks to get to Ellington. But that would be too logical.

Anyway, you sound like an entitled POS because you are spouting stuff when you know little of the facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The deal was pretty straightforward: the school used private funds to pay for the complete rehabilitation of a field that was in disrepair, due to lack of public funds. In exchange for the entire revitalization, the private school was able to use the fields for two hours a day during weekdays. The public cost was zero dollars and the “price” that the public paid was not being able to use the field that had already been unusable for two hours, several days a week, several months a year.

Um... you seem to have left out the part where DC bought the land for $15 million while Maret spent $700,000 to fix it up.

From the 1940s through 2009, the Jelleff Recreation Center was owned and operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. However, due to economic conditions, in 2009 the Boys and Girls Club began a request for proposal (RFP) process to sell the Jelleff Recreation Center. Before the process could be finalized, the District paid $20 million to acquire Jelleff and two other recreation centers, bringing the recreation center into public ownership. However, the field needed a significant amount of investment and maintenance to be usable year-round and in inclement weather.

Rather than investing the $2.5 million needed to build an artificial turf field to be administered by DPR like most other public parks, the District struck an agreement with Maret School, located almost two miles away in Woodley Park, in which the school would pay for the new field and other improvements in exchange for 10 years of priority rights to use the fields between 3:30 pm and 6 pm on weekday afternoons (2 pm on Wednesdays) during the fall and spring, all day the last two weeks of August, and 10 Saturdays a year

https://ggwash.org/view/73814/a-field-in-georgetown-forces-a-community-to-wrestle-with-the-impact-of-public-spaces-and-private-money#:~:text=It%20all%20started%20in%202009,round%20and%20in%20inclement%20weather.

Why should anyone believe a word you post? You clearly have some type of agenda.

DPR does not have the budget to renovate and maintain the field. Hardy is a Middle School and does not have the need for a field like a high school. Hardy can use Duke Ellington School Field but does not because there is no demand from Hardy for a large field.

DPR has a very small budget and DCPS has a huge budget. Oh I know let’s take $2.5 million out of Hardy’s budget for Jelleff field. Maybe Hardy can also pay for a new rec center(which is in really bad shape)? We all know what would happen if Hardy got control of the field. No maintenance and no accessibility. The field would sit unused during school hours, after hours, weekends and all summer.

The bottom line is Hardy does not use the field by choice. Hardy does not want to spend any money on the field. Hardy has the space available on the schools grounds to make a regulation field. Hardy has a field, a track, tennis courts and a large parking lot. Renovate Hardy’s outside area and build what you want. DCPS is not short of funds.

Maret lets the neighbors and sport clubs use its indoor and outside facilities at the school. Should that be stopped also?

You have no idea what you are talking about. Hardy uses its own tiny field, Duke Ellington Field, and Maret like the one afternoon a week it gets it. In particular, Hardy uses Ellington for track, cross country, soccer and more (and other schools use Ellington too -- although no one has been using Elllington since last winter because it is under renovation.) Neighbor and the community also uses Hardy's poor excuse for a field and Hardy's tennis court.

Hardy does *not* have room for a regulation field. Hardy does *not* have any sort of money to choose to spend it on something like Jelleff -- it's budget it part of DCPS's budget, which is part of DC's budget. DC makes those decisions--and Bowser decided to grift to Maret.

Also, it makes -- and has always made -- far more sense for Hardy to walk across the street to Jelleff, and for Maret's buses to continue for a few more blocks to get to Ellington. But that would be too logical.

Anyway, you sound like an entitled POS because you are spouting stuff when you know little of the facts.

^^ In first line, "Maret" should be "Jelleff."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The deal was pretty straightforward: the school used private funds to pay for the complete rehabilitation of a field that was in disrepair, due to lack of public funds. In exchange for the entire revitalization, the private school was able to use the fields for two hours a day during weekdays. The public cost was zero dollars and the “price” that the public paid was not being able to use the field that had already been unusable for two hours, several days a week, several months a year.

Um... you seem to have left out the part where DC bought the land for $15 million while Maret spent $700,000 to fix it up.

From the 1940s through 2009, the Jelleff Recreation Center was owned and operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington. However, due to economic conditions, in 2009 the Boys and Girls Club began a request for proposal (RFP) process to sell the Jelleff Recreation Center. Before the process could be finalized, the District paid $20 million to acquire Jelleff and two other recreation centers, bringing the recreation center into public ownership. However, the field needed a significant amount of investment and maintenance to be usable year-round and in inclement weather.

Rather than investing the $2.5 million needed to build an artificial turf field to be administered by DPR like most other public parks, the District struck an agreement with Maret School, located almost two miles away in Woodley Park, in which the school would pay for the new field and other improvements in exchange for 10 years of priority rights to use the fields between 3:30 pm and 6 pm on weekday afternoons (2 pm on Wednesdays) during the fall and spring, all day the last two weeks of August, and 10 Saturdays a year

https://ggwash.org/view/73814/a-field-in-georgetown-forces-a-community-to-wrestle-with-the-impact-of-public-spaces-and-private-money#:~:text=It%20all%20started%20in%202009,round%20and%20in%20inclement%20weather.

Why should anyone believe a word you post? You clearly have some type of agenda.

DPR does not have the budget to renovate and maintain the field. Hardy is a Middle School and does not have the need for a field like a high school. Hardy can use Duke Ellington School Field but does not because there is no demand from Hardy for a large field.

DPR has a very small budget and DCPS has a huge budget. Oh I know let’s take $2.5 million out of Hardy’s budget for Jelleff field. Maybe Hardy can also pay for a new rec center(which is in really bad shape)? We all know what would happen if Hardy got control of the field. No maintenance and no accessibility. The field would sit unused during school hours, after hours, weekends and all summer.

The bottom line is Hardy does not use the field by choice. Hardy does not want to spend any money on the field. Hardy has the space available on the schools grounds to make a regulation field. Hardy has a field, a track, tennis courts and a large parking lot. Renovate Hardy’s outside area and build what you want. DCPS is not short of funds.

Maret lets the neighbors and sport clubs use its indoor and outside facilities at the school. Should that be stopped also?

You have no idea what you are talking about. Hardy uses its own tiny field, Duke Ellington Field, and Maret like the one afternoon a week it gets it. In particular, Hardy uses Ellington for track, cross country, soccer and more (and other schools use Ellington too -- although no one has been using Elllington since last winter because it is under renovation.) Neighbor and the community also uses Hardy's poor excuse for a field and Hardy's tennis court.

Hardy does *not* have room for a regulation field. Hardy does *not* have any sort of money to choose to spend it on something like Jelleff -- it's budget it part of DCPS's budget, which is part of DC's budget. DC makes those decisions--and Bowser decided to grift to Maret.

Also, it makes -- and has always made -- far more sense for Hardy to walk across the street to Jelleff, and for Maret's buses to continue for a few more blocks to get to Ellington. But that would be too logical.

Anyway, you sound like an entitled POS because you are spouting stuff when you know little of the facts.

^^ In first line, "Maret" should be "Jelleff."

^^ In second paragraph, “it’s” should be “its” and “it” should be “is”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so glad that the certificate of occupancy was not issued for the new field. I was very actively involved to make that possible. Traffic is going to be hell near my house.

Traffic will be hell? The whole upper school has 325 kids. Congrats on your activism…I suspect your successes will be exceedingly short-lived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so glad that the certificate of occupancy was not issued for the new field. I was very actively involved to make that possible. Traffic is going to be hell near my house.

On what basis was it denied?

[Anonymous]

Wait did Maret not get the C of O for the field in Chevy Chase DC? Is it a matter of time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so glad that the certificate of occupancy was not issued for the new field. I was very actively involved to make that possible. Traffic is going to be hell near my house.

On what basis was it denied?

It just hasn’t been officially extended yet