The Forum is scheduled to begin at Hesse Park at 7:00 PM.
This Forum will be most likely be the last chance to ask the collected candidates the questions that have been avoided in the two previous Forums and should show divisions growing between the candidates, which is something needed for voters to make the best informed choices possible.
Here are the questions you won't hear at the Marymount Forum on Thursday night:
What is your opinion on the request by officials at Marymount College to lengthen the time periods for construction of The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project from its current 8 year phasing to a new 20-year time limit?
What are your opinions on the request made by Marymount College officials to increase the student body population at Marymount's R.P.V. site to 1,200 students?
I know the answers I am looking for and I have a pretty good idea of which candidates would like the answers I am looking for and which candidates will offer answers that leave doors open to different interpretations and make the issues more gray than black and white.
Some ancillary questions to ask yourself when pondering what answers may come from each candidate include, but are certainly not limited to the following:
What have Marymount officials done recently to earn the ability to increase student population and allow the time periods to be elongated?
Have Marymount officials done all they could with regards to on street parking situations they have been criticized for, recently?
After Marymount officials spent about 7 million dollars redeveloping other facilities for the college in San Pedro, how much money has been spent on the approved Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project since its approval date?
On Thursday evening, beginning at 7:00 PM Marymount College officials will sponsor a Forum for candidates for the Council election.
It has previously been published that Mr. Eric Alegria may not be in attendance for that Forum as he has other responsibilities to attend to.
Six other candidates have confirmed attendance at that Forum. However, Ms. Cynthia Smith, the candidate who works for the college or is associated with a company involved with the college is not one of the confirmed candidates, at this point.
Marymount officials put out an Email stating who the moderator will be and the qualifications of that person who lives in.....Pasadena.
In that Email, there was also a section of areas that might be considered to have questions coming from.
In that section there was not one word regarding anything revolving around Marymount College or its existence in our community.
I hope somebody brings the ability to show the Forum live on our city's cable channel or allow a recording of it to be played on that channel or on our city's Web site.
The Email also contains mention of the prospect of a candidate being able to ask another candidate or candidates a direct question.
If the moderator is as well respected as his published credentials state, he probably shouldn't allow this to happen, in my opinion.
But it might be one heck of a Forum to not miss.
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