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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is not a tax poor city. We could pay for our own turf and fence at Jelleff. I would appreciate seeing my tax dollars spent that way. We don't need Maret to pay for this. It's absurd and infuriating. [/quote]

This is true, yet completely misses the issue.  Yes, DC is flush with taxes; but DPR's budget for maintenance of facilities is not.  DCPS is separate from DPR.  You have the head of DPR presented with a situation where a private entity will pay for a significant upgrade to a DPR facility - an athletic field.  In return, DPR is asked to grant that entity exclusive rights to use the field after school.  DPR is not primarily concerned with DC schools - its responsibility is to maintain the parks and other spaces for all DC residents, not just students.  This arrangement allows $250,000 to be used to improve other facilities, to the benefit of all DC residents.  And although students are out of school during the restricted field time, many other DC residents are still at work, and wouldn't be able to use the field anyway.

Finally, DPR leadership could reasonably conclude that it is the responsibility of DCPS, not DPR, to provide adequate facilities for DCPS students to use for school activities.  Should DCPS have first call on all rec center space to conduct after-school programming?  Of course not.  This is exactly the same situation.

You can disagree with the decision, but this is not the moral outrage that many of you seem to believe it to be.  [/quote]

Well in the case of Murch, DCPS already directly paid UDC for the use of the field.  Once Maret showed up with money UDC decided to get paid AGAIN.  Because the lawyers did not write the agreement properly they were able to do that.  Our kids were banned to a small patch in the front.  So in my mind, it is very much the moral outrage.  I think DCPS paid UDC something close to $4 mil for 2 years we were there.  [/quote]

That is wrong, and if true the DCPS lawyers should be ashamed of themselves.  But it's not the situation here, and is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.  [/quote]

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