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[quote=Anonymous]Comments from the deadspin article: 
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https://deadspin.com/the-legendary-public-rec-center-in-a-private-schools-po-1837648863
Maret's argument that a ten year contract extension is an “expectation” of the original contract is laughable. If they wanted more than ten years they should have negotiated that into the original contract*. Since they didn’t, it’s completely irrelevant that they invested all that money ten years ago with the expectation that they’d be able to use that field for 20 years instead of 10 years. I deal with contracts for a living and I’m constantly dealing with these sorts of complaints from my customers (usually the other way around, stuff like “we didn’t think any of our customers would cancel our service when we signed that five year contract”). If it’s not in the contract, it might as well not exist, and I’ve yet to apologize to someone for enforcing the terms of a mutually agreed upon contract.

The possibility that they’d only get ten years’ return on their initial investment is a risk they took when they signed that 10 year contracts. At this point it looks like the city has a lot more leverage and should act in its own best interest here, with zero concerns for Maret’s “expectations”, nor for what they paid in the previous contract.

*my guess is that the city wouldn’t go longer than 10 years because they knew that the ten year deal would be unpopular and they didn’t want to push public opinion too far. there may also be statutory limitations on the length that they can negotiate on contracts like this. In either case, a 20 year contract was simply not on the table, and Maret tried to have it’s cake and eat it too by negotiating one thing and then making a handshake deal behind the scenes for something else. If that’s what happened, I have no sympathy at all for Maret if they extension somehow falls through.
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