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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give away?

It's a lease at market rate 
[b]False, Lab is paying only 80,000/year  ($6666/month) to rent a building on a 50,000 square foot lot. There are houses on 7,000 square foot lots that go for a similar amount of rent per year in the private market.  Lab gets to deduct rent for each dollar they pay in renovations, so they'll likely never pay DC a dime.  [/b]
DC retains ownership and can revoke for lease violations
Lab School will pay for safety repairs and renovation (1935 boiler, fire sprinklers)
[b]I would assume anyone who rented the building would have to do that.  It's called basic safety for your students.  [/b]
Lab School will pay for 2 new DC kids a year to attend (DCPS has drastically cut placements, that's why more DC residents don't go)
[b]DC residents "don't go" to Lab because it's a very expensive school ($45K/year) so DCPS in a cost-cutting measure, has tried to reduce the amount of placements.    Perhaps leasing this building at market rent could pay for an improved special ed budget for DC public school students.[/b]
DCPS doesn't want the building, no budget to repair, let alone expand
[b]What's the proof of that? Has this property been offered publicly for bid recently?  [/b]
The immediate neighbors wants it to stay a small school, positive relationships with Lab
[b] If they put this property out to bid publicly, DCPS could choose the characteristics of the tenant it wanted, including an acceptable size of school.[/b]
All the students have disabilities, it's not a regular private school
[b]DCPS has students with disabilities too.  It would be nice if they could go to schools without trailers, or if DC had more funding (via market based rents) for their special ed kids.[/b]
If there is a viable alternative to Lab lease somewhere in this nearly decade-long soap opera, I'd love to see it. If not, please, let's just move on to the big problems. 
[b]DC could put the property out to bid, and Lab could be the winning bidder by paying the highest rent.  It's not DC's job to give sweetheart deals to a private school.[/b]
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