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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret wanted a 20 year use agreement in consideration of making capital improvements at Jelleff.  At the time, DC would only agree to a 10-year initial term with an option (if Maret met its financial commitments) to extend for another 9 years.  At the same time DC negotiated for front-loaded investment  by Maret to enhance the playing field, pool and other infrastructure like field lights to be enjoyed by all users.  Maret took the risk with its up front investment that the use agreement would not be entended beyond the initial term.  If you consider Maret’s initial, front-loaded investment and then the second payment stream for the additional term, it works out to a payment of $230,000 annually for less than four months’ use.  This is pretty high for relatively few hours weekly during part of the fall and spring season.  In fact, including weekdays and some Saturday games, Maret was a distant third among scheduled users using Jelleff (2017 Spring data, with the British School and Stoddert soccer (about 32 hours weekly each) and Maret at 14 hours.[/quote]
That’s false.  There was no written agreement to extend the deal for Jellef past the 10 year period.  If there was such an agreement you would link to it, but you can’t because it doesn’t exist. And if Maret wanted to use Jelleff during school hours like the British school does, there would be less community opposition, but no, Maret wants to pay $95k/year and not share Jelleff at all.  If Maret thinks that paying such a small sum is so meaningful, it should find another field to use.  (But it can’t, so it hogs a public field.)[/quote]

This. Do show us where that agreement (with an option to extend) is written because it only exists in the minds of Maret administrators and soon to be felon and Maret parent Jack Evans.[/quote]

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