Dear Marymount

Dear Marymount,

Please take what little money is left over and first keep the promise made by Dr. Michael Brophy and quickly pay the entire cost of the Special Election and other costs sent to you by the city of Rancho Palos Verdes.

Then please begin to go forward with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project that so many of us support and that your representative accepted, now all that long ago.

It is hoped that you can find the funds to demonstrate a good faith effort in beginning The Project so that IF three new members of the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council take their seats in December, 2011 and the College comes back with new plans for on-campus housing WITHOUT a new City Ordinance and FOLLOWING the guidelines of Conditional Use Permits, I might become a member of a minority group still opposed to dorms at Marymount because of safety reasons.

Over 51% of the registered voters cast votes in the Special Election. This should clearly demonstrate to everyone associated with Marymount College and supportive of the already approved Project that it is important to go forward, it you can.

So darn much money was spent on what ultimately turned out to be a very slanted vote against The Marymount Plan.

I think if you return any grants Marymount has for a brick and mortar library and instead offer a virtual library and added study space in a new Student Union, your students might eventually be able to comfortably use their iPads, Kindle's P.C.'s Macs, and other devices to access a truly state-of-the-art virtual library that so many colleges and universities are turning to as a way to provide an institution clearly in the 21st Century.

I think you need to take a good look at your Administration as one way of demonstrating that your human learned something from the vote reported very early this morning.

Clearly honesty, the whole truth, valid information, and competent education are ways of changing the minds of voters as demonstrated by we opponents of Measure P and its Marymount Plan.

Our voting residents are an intelligent and caring group of citizens who know what is best for their city and they demonstrated that, yesterday.

Please consider their intelligence and caring should you try again for on-campus housing that will still for me, be a major safety concern.

I want The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project to move forward.

I want are now very divided voter base to come back together quickly because there are so many very important issues that still need our residents' consideration, opinions, and actions.

I know some very rough times are ahead for you and your students but I hope there are some key learning we all now posses that will help all of us move forward and not look too far back.

Please make the changes necessary to help grow the school and what now looks to be a tattered reputation.

I feel that if Marymount quickly confirms that it will begin physical work associated with The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project, it will go quite a long way to providing all sorts of opportunities and pluses for our entire community and it will show everyone that Marymount College's administration and supporters can regain the trust that was somewhat lost over the last year, plus.