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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for finding this. Credit to the Maret people for describing it accurately- that the District has to affirmatively consent to the extension. The onus should be squarely on the Mayor and Council now. This does not have to happen, and they have the power and right not to do it.[/quote]

DPR has already agreed to the extension, no? If so, the appropriate tense in your last sentence is past and not present.[/quote]

Ah, you seem to be right! I assumed this needed Council approval, which means it would have to go up to the Mayor's Office to be packaged for Council approval. But as it is not a contract where the District will be paying anything, it does not trigger the $1 million threshold needed for Council approval.

And the DPR director has the authority [/b]to execute this contract on the mayors behalf. That looks to have happened, so you are right, should have been past tense.

There doesn't seem to be an administrative way to stop this, assuming the contract has been fully executed. It's possible someone could sue, saying it is effectively a disposition of DC land, and thus needs Council approval, but that is a real stretch of an argument, and I doubt it would hold up.[/quote]

The DPR Director actually only has an “acting” title. I would think that might allow some room for revisiting the decision. [/quote]

I hope this comes up at his confirmation hearing.[/quote]

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