Confirmation? Perhaps.

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I wonder how many Rancho Palos Verdes residents it took for Dr. Brophy to come up with this latest wrinkle?

I must write that I appreciate Dr. Brophy announcing that the will pay all the costs incurred for their Marymount Plan initiative being on the November 2 ballot.

But it certainly looks to me that Dr. Brophy just confirmed my assertion that taxpayers' funds would have been used to have the initiative on the ballot while all the assertions by Marymount that The Marymount Plan would be accomplished at "no taxpayer expense" now can only come true when Dr. Brophy announced the college would pay all the costs.

That's a start, Dr. Brophy. But there are more costs to taxpayers' funds that you might want to pick up so your assertions could be as true as mine seemingly are being confirmed by you.

I know you said Marymount would pay its "fair share" on the mitigation of traffic at three intersections in Rancho Palos Verdes.

It would now be nice, to keep taxpayer funds from being spent on those intersections' mitigation, to follow up on your assertion that The Marymount Plan would be completed "without taxpayer expense, if you would completely fund the three approved projects.

But wait! You did repeatedly tell me that you believe there would be no signals placed at the intersection of Miraleste Drive at Palos Verdes Drive East. I hope you are correct.

But with The Marymount Plan and the recently approved Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project, both of them have the signalization as part of the mitigation required to complete either issue.

So, when we all find out the projected costs associated with the signalization, you and your supporters create an Escrow account and you can either put your 'fair share' into that account or better yet, put all the costs, including projected costs to taxpayers' General Fund, into that same account?

And you thought we were done?

The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project has a fourth traffic mitigation compliment and you know what it is.

For those who don't, it is the construction and maintenance of a center median concrete barrier of about 1,000 feet in length, being placed between the opposing lanes of Palos Verdes Drive East as that roadway goes around much of the Marymount campus site.

Dr. Brophy, no matter what your published reasoning was for offering to donate up to $200,000.00 towards that mitigation, I thank you for the offer.

Now since the projected costs for the concrete median might be about $285,000.00, how about you kicking in the 85 grand so you can continue to assert that The Marymount Plan will be accomplished with "no taxpayer expense".

Are you folks going to add that fourth mitigation to The Marymount Plan? If you do, then I expect that you might have to be seen with a red face as you try to tell potential supporters that taxpayer funds would be required to have the median constructed. That would blow your assertion about no taxpayer expense a bit out of believability, wouldn't it?

Now lets opine about the real differences between The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project and The Marymount Plan.

Dr. Brophy asserts that Marymount would become a greater educational opportunity for students and I agree with that, to a point.

You all must realize or learn that the two issues are almost identical except for two major differences and a minor difference or two.

Everything that is in The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project has been approved and the necessary Resolutions should be passed, and I hope passed unanimously, by the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council, this coming Tuesday evening.

Everything that is in The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project except on campus housing for students and some staffers.

Everything that is in The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project except Marymount's wish to have a new municipal code passed by voters that would restrict government oversight in The Marymount Plan should it garner more than 50% of the votes cast relating to that ballot measure.

Everything that is in The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project except currently, the fourth traffic mitigation issue relating to the construction and placement of a concrete center median barrier.

So what might that confirm from my assertions about Marymount that Marymount asserts for itself?

I think I can now truly believe that the entire ten year journey has always and only been about having on campus housing.

This apparent affirmation of a confirmation comes straight from Dr. Brophy's letter, even without Dr. Brophy publicly admitting it.

Since The Project, approved by the City Coucil, just doesn't involve on campus housing and the potential restriction of government oversight, it seems to me that Dr. Brophy's letter and charging forward to try and get the ballot measure passed by voters is all the real confirmation any of us need.

Why would Marymount spend all that money on advertising and seeking support for The Marymount Plan if it really was about everything other than dorms and the lesser or greater, potential restrictions of government oversight.

It's really quite simple to see through the complete haze Marymount is attempting to push over every one's head .

Dr. Brophy and other seem to assert that a large soccer field on the west side of the Marymount campus would not cause much harm to drivers or in the surrounding housing areas.

That assertion should be questioned when one learns that Marymount will require all incoming residence hall occupants, to have instructions in safe driving techniques be required of all incoming students desireing to live on campus.

Also, the Environmental Impact Report has a sentence about potential hazards because of errant balls coming off the field or tennis courts and landing along Palos Verdes Drive East.

Continuing, Marymount has agreed to increasing the height of the pole and retractable netting, increasing the height of the permanent fencing around the tennis court, and having the field closer to the gym than is what is illustrated in The Marymount Plan.

Marymount also offered up to $200,000.00 to assist the city with funds to install the center median barrier even though it is not part of The Marymount Plan and just might not be a real part of the show, depending on how the poles look.

I'll wake up tomorrow morning and add to this. Sleep well.