"You Tinkered"

"You tinkered" was the response by Dr. Michael Brophy, the President of Marymount College, to a question posed by a member of the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council dealing with his opinion as to why he was opposed to the Council's approval of The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project.



Specifically, Councilman Campbell asked Dr. Brophy why Dr. Brophy did not like how the Council moved the large athletic field sixty feet to the east and thus placing it farther from the long curve of Palos Verdes Drive East.



Dr. Brophy stated that there had been years of study and "$600,000.00' of costs incurred by the College in having the large field much closer to the curve than the Council ultimately approved of.



When Councilman Campbell challenged Dr. Brophy to state whether placing the field farther from the roadway for safety reasons was superior to where Marymount wanted it, Dr. Brophy stated he would not give a yes or no answer.



To me this smacked of Marymount's Land Use Attorney, Mr. Don Davis, when he got up and stated matter of factly that Marymount would not build a new large field on the east side of the campus, near where the existing field currently sits.



Mr. Davis stated that when the Council originally voted to have the field on the east side, it didn't matter because they weren't going to build a new field on the east side so the Council should simply deny the field.



That little outburst by Mr. Davis was cured when the Council voted to have the field on the west side of the campus, where Marymount wanted it in the first place.



Dr. Brophy's "you tinkered" also may have been reflected of his feelings about hearing so much negativity dealing with The Marymount Plan's initiative and how just about everyone in the Council Chambers opposed The Marymount Plan and its initiative.

So now it seems Rancho Palos Verdes resident, Ms. Linda "Bob Bisno is going to save San Pedro" D'Ambrosi has somewhat of a new soulmate with Dr. Michael "you tinkered" Brophy.