Fact Checking Rebuttal of Arguments Against Measure P.

As you read the Ballot Arguments concerning Measure P, The Marymount Plan, I hope you remember what you read inside the Sample Ballot and what you read below.

In red are the "FACTS" Marymount's Argument signers state are true.

In black are the confirmed facts, varified by language in the Marymount-sponsored Environmental Impact Report and other sources I am able to provide upon request.

Marymount's President continues to lead an organization, probably allowed to do so by Marymount's Board of Trustees in which misdirection, misleading statements, falsehoods, and possibly dishonest tactics continue to this day.

For Marymount to survive and gather a student enrollment to remain competitive with better colleges like Loyola Marymount, it must have a new municipal code to be able to have third party vendors and contractors fund the building of dorms and other items contained in The Marymount Plan.

This is the bottom line which Marymount officials provide 'between the lines' of advertisements rather than being non-deceptive and just stating what is so obvious to many residents of Rancho Palos Verdes.

The mechanisms included in Measure P, The Marymount Plan create a single-entity right and authority no other business entity or resident has in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes and would actually benefit persons who don't necessarily live in Rancho Palos Verdes but could stand to gain wealth from passage of Measure P.

Marymount has never stated where revenue would come from should Measure P pass and they have never stated they would use any revenue to construct anything according to The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project which they publicly supported for nine years or more.

So below are their "FACTS" and the truth. One is in red, the other is in black. Go ahead, you are smart enough to determine which colored wording should be believed, I am sure.

“FACT - Ten years and millions of dollars were spent studying every aspect of
Measure P, including the proposed dormitories.”

This is simply and completely false.

Measure P was drafted AFTER Marymount College voluntarily removed from consideration by the Rancho Palos Verdes Planning Commission and BEFORE the final vote on The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project was approved by the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council.

In FACT, the 51 pages of language of Measure P, The Marymount Plan was publicly published in 2010 almost ten years AFTER Marymount brought forth its original Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project which Marymount only accepted with a letter stating that the measure to acquire the rights to build dorms and have its Specific Plan Zone created.

“FACT -- The dormitories will reduce traffic and noise pollution in our
neighborhoods by lowering the number of commuter students. New on-campus
parking will reduce street parking.”

This is also not true. According to the Environmental Impact Report paid for by Marymount College, along with subsequent studies also funded by Marymount, weekday traffic will increase by 78% and weekend and holiday traffic will increase by 220%.

Also, Marymount has no intention of providing an adequate number of parking spaces to provide off street parking for every vehicle associated with Marymount College. This is true with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project which provides a municipal code variance to Marymount and The Marymount Plan in which the new municipal code specifically for Marymount College would supersede existing municipal codes for the number of parking spaces required by a business or College in Rancho Palos Verdes.

FACT—Measure P, The Marymount Plan contains language that limits city control of amplified noise levels coming from the campus of Marymount College for any and all reasons and deletes most noise conditions set forth in The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project.

“FACT -- Measure P creates an independent neighborhood advisory council that
reports directly to the City Council on the implementation of the Marymount
Plan.”

FACT--The independent neighborhood advisory council is designed to meet TWICE A YEAR and its report is not binding to either Marymount College or the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council which would be restricted from imposing any sanctions against Marymount College due to its special status achieved through Measure P.

"FACT -- The City of Rancho Palos Verdes was created by a vote of our citizens.
The future of Marymount College, one of our city’s jewels, deserves no less."

FACT – The City of Rancho Palos Verdes was created by residents for residents and there are very few students, faculty, staff, or other persons associated with Marymount College who are residents of Rancho Palos Verdes.

In FACT--Marymount’s immediate past President stated that Marymount’s mission is to provide a safe and secure environment for students who come from “20 countries” and “half of all the United States”.

Both the late Mr. James Little and the late Mr. Kamil Szybinski came from San Jose, California and Poland, respectively. Even “Drunk Jojo” hailed from The Bronx, New York.

For Mr. James Little and for Mr. Kamil Szybinsky, Marymount College in the end, was neither safe nor secure

FACT—Very few persons associated with Marymount College are legally eligible to vote on Measure P because so few persons associated in any way with Marymount College are registered to vote in Rancho Palos Verdes.

FACT—Rancho Palos Verdes has been home for years to a College that has on-campus housing for its students and that is not something that Palos Verdes Estates, Rolling Hills Estates, the city of Rolling Hills, San Pedro, Lomita, or Wilmington can claim.

Why must Rancho Palos Verdes have two Colleges with on-campus housing when none of the other areas mentioned even have one?

Please vote "No" on Measure P, The Marymount Plan.

Safety. Everyone. Everywhere. Every hour.