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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can understand why some might be frustrated by then jellef/maret issue, but DC should have invested in turf fields some time ago such as at the Hearst field, next to the lab school and at Duke Ellington. Neighbors of these areas object because they want their dog park or don’t want parking issues. The fact that DC did not do so makes the jelled filed issue more acute. Seems easy to want to reclaim the jellef field now that a private entity has fixed it up and maintained it for ten years but no effort has been made by Hardy parents or other dcps groups to get these other fields done. [/quote]

Yes that is true. There are a number of fields in NW both public and private that the neighborhood restrict access.  Jelleff has lights, also. That’s a big deal.[/quote]

DPR has already allocated  $7 million to fix up the rec center.  Maret paid to fix up the field as the price of using it exclusively for 10 years. Now that deal is over, and there was no committment in the original agreement that Maret would get the contract renewed (which is why they pushed it through a backroom nontransparent contracting process.)[/quote]

Maret doesn’t run the contract process. So stop saying maret pushed it through non transparent process. They did what was allowed by their existing contract. No, am not a maret parent. [/quote]

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