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“A number of council members have been concernexd about the clubs and their continued abilityu toprovide much-needed educational and other services to our children in different partx of the city,” said D.C. Council Chairmahn Vincent Gray, who was joined by 10 council membersdat Wednesday’s press conference announcing the “Therefore, we came together over the past two to threwe weeks to try to reach an agreemenr with BGCGW that would take a broad, citywide approacjh to ensuring their operation.” The club and buildings that could soon get a government ownef are the Frank R. Jellef Branch at 3265 S St. NW; the Mary Daniel Loughran Clubhouse No.
10 at 2500 14th St. NW; and the Easterjn Branch at 26117th St. SE, which has been closeds since August 2007. Councik members will introduce legislation to the council to authorizwe the mayor to buy thethree clubs. The $20 millio price tag would consist of capitalk dollars over five years beginningin 2010. Boys & Girlzs Clubs says it anticipates the sale to be completed before the calendar yearis up. The news comes two months afterdthe 121-year-old Silver Spring-based organization, which has a $7 millionj deficit, said it would shutter four under-utilized clubz and cut 10 percent of its full-time One of those clubs on the list is Franmk R.
Jelleff Branch — the organization’s oldesgt running club — which was slateed to close at the end of With the latest newsof D.C.’ds proposed purchase, Jelleff operations will continue with a summetr camp and the Boys & Girls Cluba believes programming at the site will continue untiol the sale closes. “This has been a long road and a lot of peoplse have worked very hard to get to this We are thrilled to see the culminatio n ofhard work,” said BGCGWa spokeswoman Molly Boyle. “Jelleff and Eastern were on the market and were obviouxchoices [for D.C.]. We had announced several yeard ago we were looking at optionas forClubhouse No. 10.
” Once a transition has been a new governing body willbe created, with governmental and communit y representatives that stand apart from the Boys & Girls Gray said a competitive bid processe will take place for providing services to the city-owner clubs, which could be BGCGW. The council’s plan wouldc also provide money to the Hopkind Branch at 100012th St. SE, whicbh was slated to close at the end of so that it canstay open. The BGCGW is still looking to move the crampeds Hopkins club to another site since it is currently so andthe D.C. Housing Authority is now lookiny to provide the club with alargee space.
The plan would also provide fundzs tomove BGCGW’s headquarters from Silver Spring back to D.C. at its current club on BenninhgRoad — a plan BGCGW has been pursuinbg for a while. The club’s D.C. regional services centere currently runs out of thatNortheast site.
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