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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cheh has been a lame duck since February, when she announced her withdrawal from the race.

Do you think any of the Ward 3 candidates other than Goulet is more liberal than Cheh? Because they aren't. And Goulet is pretty close. He simply favors more money for Charters and a football stadium.[/quote]

Honestly it looks down to Frumin (AU park support), Duncan (Palisades), and Goulet (Outside W3 Dark Money). Nobody else has more than 150 local W3 donors. [b]Frumin is a bit more NIMBY than Duncan,[/b] but pretty similar overall. Goulet is all over the place, one day he says he is for reducing costs, then he come out in favor of spending money on a stadium for out-of-towners. But he is pro-charter school - which in W3 isn't even an issue (lowest charter use in the city, with no charters in boundary).

As for the makeup council post election?

Hard to say. I think Mendo will win, as will Naidu. W5 will stay progressive with either Faith/Parker. Does Bonds keep her seat? Not clear, she doesn't even really have any name recognition. Honestly, any pronouncements seem too early, unless you have seen polling results that the rest of us haven't. [/quote]

I don't know where you get this. Frumin got the Lisner project through. He got the lights in at Chevy Chase playground, he got the AU Law school and AU dorms through. Where has he been an obstruction to new development?[/quote]

He's repeatedly told the NIMBYs in Foxhall and Palisades that he is against building the new elementary school at Hardy Park, and that the new high school at the old GDS campus needs more "community engagement" before we proceed with the mayor's plan. He also didn't lift a finger when residents in his ANC (3C) fought off the development at Super Fresh for years. [/quote]
The old GDS lower school would be inappropriate for a high school. It doesn’t have a cafeteria. Doesn’t have an auditorium. Only has a small gym and small turf field so no sports. The land is constrained and on the side of a hill so you cannot add anything. It also only has capacity for 500 students. [/quote]

I guess we’ll find out when it opens 15 months from now. That Goulet is telling people - in writing - he will be able to stop it if he takes office in January should tell you all you need to know about him.[/quote]

Yep, by January it will be eight months away from opening, the money to open it will be in the current-year budget, not much a council member can do to stop it. But Goulet is good at telling people what they want to hear; as Homer Simpson said to Marge, "It takes two to lie. One to do the lying, and one to be lied to."[/quote]
And when is construction supposed to occur? They are going to open a school without a cafeteria? You think they can build out a cafeteria in 8 months? Honestly bizarre posts and completely untethered. [/quote]

Someone is temporally challenged. The school will open in the fall of 2023, so they have about 15 months to get this done. But the new Ward 3 councilmember will be seated in January 2023, 8 months before the school would open. Assuming that construction proceeds as planned, it’s highly highly unlikely that whoever is elected Councilmember for Ward 3 is going to convince whoever they need to convince to walk away the plans to open the HS and go back to the drawing board. If you can imagine that scenario, you must be on some very interesting drugs.[/quote]
You are making affirmative statements about timelines and outcome that are not yet confirmed.

DCPS planning has already determined that it will be a HS. However, the date for opening is all prospective. DCPS proposes a Fall 2023 “Anticipated Opening” without doing any construction or modernization. All of the construction is proposed for “Phase II”, after opening, which does not seem like a reasonable plan and actually deserves more public scrutiny. Opening a new school without adequate facilities in place is inappropriate. [/quote]

Sorry, I've sat through the meetings, August 2023 is a firm date. The school will open with approximately 200 9th graders. The reason there is a Phase II is that there is a Phase I, which is doing what is necessary to open with 200 9th graders. [/quote]

Yep, they’re committed to opening in August 2023. It will be a soft opening, but it would be hard at this point for DCPS to walk that back. Particularly when there is an empty building there waiting for them. The building will not be in an ideal state, but they have more than enough time to get it good enough. Those who think that the likes of Goulet could magically stop this - even if he wanted to, which is doubtful - are very easily misled.[/quote]
Regardless what Goulet has committed to and what is feasible, the plan is half baked and DCPS deserves significantly more over sight and scrutiny. [/quote]

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