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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what Eric Goulet said  ( below) on our listserv---- ironic, given how Whittle was originally pitched to parents as the school of their dreams, a once in a lifetime opportunity...

"I'm going to step up advocacy efforts to obtain the Whittle School campus.  DC cannot miss the opportunity to get the Whittle in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget, because it is a once-in-a-half-century opportunity to obtain a 2,400 seat transit-accessible school building.  Three Ward 3 ANCs - 3B (Brian Turmail sponsor), 3C (Beau Finley sponsor), and 3F (J.P. Szymkowicz sponsor) - have approved resolutions requesting that DC purchase or enter into a long-term lease at Whittle.  Obtaining Whittle must be a top priority if we are going to be able to solve Ward 3 school overcrowding challenges in the upcoming boundary study, because without Whittle, there is no identifiable path forward to solving overcrowding at both Deal and Jackson Reed."

Have the "once in a half-century opportunity" boosters actually looked at an operating budget or toured the building with a real estate professional? Or examined the 20 pages of liens and lawsuits on the property? All the docs are publicly available.

A resolution to purchase or enter into a long term lease--- on a well known disaster of a property they haven't seen or done a fact based analysis on? ..public servants shooting from the hip it seems. [/quote]

Goulet is claiming three ANCs have passed resolutions. I’ve only seen one of them (Beau’s). 3F has no commissioner named J.P. Szymkowicz and so it’s difficult to understand why he would sponsor a resolution for them. Have three ANCs passed resolutions or is Eric making things up again?[/quote]

JP is 3D. He represents Foxhall Village and his constituents desperately want to scuttle the new schools. [/quote]

It's just bizarre the way Goulet knows literally nothing about local politics. I mean, 3D is his own ANC. [/quote]

Wait for the, “I mixed it up so the kids could play a fun game of sorting out which commissioner belongs to which ANC!”[/quote]

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