This story was updated on Nov. 4, 2009.

Kensington, which in September banned school girls from a town park, is offering the private school where the girls attend a deal to use a town playground for a yearly fee.

The town of Kensington has offered a Memorandum of Understanding to the Brookewood School that would allow students to have recess at a town playground if the school paid the town $2,000 annually and met other conditions.

The board of the Brookewood School was scheduled to meet and decide on the offer Tuesday night, but the meeting has been rescheduled to Nov. 4, according to the school.

The offer came after the town banned in September children over age 5 from being in the park during school hours to prevent the girls, who range from first to eighth grade, from having recess in town-owned Reinhardt Park. The action was taken following complaints from parents of small children in town that the playground was overrun with older kids and that equipment was getting broken. The town had previously delivered a different Memorandum of Understanding to the school asking for $4,000 annually, a sum headmaster Joe McPherson said the school could not afford.

The new memorandum also requires that the school use the ground for no more than three hours daily and that there be no more than 20 girls at the playground at once.

Headmaster Joseph McPherson said when he received the latest offer, he made the town a counter offer that the girls do weekly cleanups in the park, spread mulch, stay out of the playground area and the school would pay for broken equipment. Kensington Mayor Peter Fosselman said that after consultation with the town attorney the offer was dismissed because there are liability and practicality issues with the girls performing town park maintenance.

Since they were banned from Reinhardt Park, the Brookewood girls have been walking a few extra blocks to the yard of Warner Mansion, a county owned park, to have recess. McPherson said the board may not accept the memorandum because the girls have adapted well.

"A lot of the girls seem to prefer it, it's kind of interesting," McPherson said.

Still he said, the school may protest. "We may be out there with picket signs," McPherson said.

"I just find it repugnant for a not-for-profit tax-exempt school to have to pay for non-exclusive use of the park," McPherson said.

Fosselman said if the Brookewood board does accept the terms of the memorandum, the parties would enter into a verbal agreement, following which the Town Council would amend the September resolution that banned the students and then sign the memorandum.