I Need Darkness To Write About Marymount Later

Well, it seems like the words some of us were attempting to have Dr. Brophy listen to finally sunk in.

He seemingly just acknowledged that had he not offered to foot the bills for the proposed initiative's processes through the voting, taxpayers would have had to foot the bills.

Isn't that what I have been asserting for some time?

OK, it finally sunk in. Its a start. Unfortunately, it is only a start.

What about the taxpayers' funds that will have to be utilized for the three mitigation for traffic in both The Project AND the Marymount Plan?

So far, Dr. Brophy want Marymount to pay only its "fair share". How nice. But what about the rest of the costs? They have to come from taxpayers' funds unless he does what he just wrote to the Mayor and then sent to registered voters that he and Marymount are now willing to pick up the taxpayers' fund's portion of the required costs.

Now I know Dr. Brophy told me several times that he doesn't think traffic signals will ever get placed at the intersection of Miraleste Drive at Palos Verdes Drive East. I hope he is correct about that opinion.

So, in the interest of helping Marymount do what it stated over and over and over again that The Marymount Plan would would be completed at "no taxpayer expense" here is what I am now proposing.

Hey Marymount! It is time you offer to pay for ALL mitigation costs for the three traffic mitigation in both The Project AND The Plan and it would be dandy if you placed your 'fair share' or the total costs for Miraleste Drive at Palos Verdes Drive East into an Escrow account on June 2, the day after the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council adopts the two Resolutions allowing The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project to go forward to the next steps that will eventually lead to the issuance of permits for The Project to get underway.

But wait, there's more! Now that the C.C. will approve the Resolutions, it is also time for Marymount to include the traffic and potentially hazardous condition mitigation of placing a concrete median barrier between the opposing lanes of Palos Verdes Drive East around the long arc of that roadway going around a good portion of the Marymount campus.

I am very grateful that Marymount has agreed to offer up to $200,000 towards the completion of that mitigation and I hope Marymount decides, as the good neighbor they claim to be, to cough up the remaining funds to complete that project, too.

I'll write another post in a while after I finish some more work on the set of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Musical" opening on June 11, 2010 at the historic Warner Grand Theatre in downtown San Pedro.