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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If maret adds lights and gets off the field by 7pm weeknights and 4pm weekends,  I would say we have a deal.[/quote]

That was the deal ten years ago. Arguably it was a fair deal. Now Maret is arguing they should get another ten years because they overpaid ten years ago. [/quote]

All this hearsay is part of the problem. Where is the documentation, where is the transparency? Please link to Maret's "argument." Please provide the "notice" that must have been issued making the availability of Jelleff field to the highest bidder known. What? there wasn't one? all this was just done behind closed doors with pleading, handshakes and payoffs? [/quote]

This. If the DC government wants to give away public property to private entities, it should at least have a transparent bidding process and not play favorites to private schools where council member’s kids are in attendance.     Heck I could afford 25k/year for a land that cost $15 million.  It’s cheaper than a 1 bR apartment.[/quote]

The cost of the field could be in the high 6 or 7 figures.  You keep leaving that out.[/quote]

the cost of the field only Maret can use? [/quote]

More than Maret uses the field.[/quote]

Are you from Maret's PR department? 
1) Maret has exclusive rights to the field.  They CAN let others use the field, but by all accounts this doesn't happen very often and kids from neighborhood schools have to travel 1 hr sometimes to get to other fields, and even the aftercare program at Jelleff can't use the field.
2) No one knows how much Maret spent on upgrading the field, because the deal is untransparent.  What is known is that they are charged just $25k/year for a piece of land that cost $15 million dollars which most people see as a sweetheart deal.   If it's not a sweetheart deal, DPR can open up the field for competitive bidding, as good governance would require.  Let Maret win fairly, and not because Jack Evans sent his kids there.[/quote]

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