2028 Olympics

“I know there are people who are watching that closely, so thank you for that clarification. Um, I know that you also— there’s also been discussion around no-work days, and, um, 63 of the 93 days that are indicated as no-work days actually fall outside of the Olympic and Paralympic competition window.”

“You answered many, by the way, so thank you for that. Does LADOT currently have the necessary personnel and resources to manage growing demands associated with the LA ‘28 Olympics and Paralympics?”

“Briefed on this a couple weeks ago, and I have Dodger Stadium in my district, so I want to make sure I get through them. Um, what happens if LA28 dissolves before costs incurred by the city are paid?”

“My second question is, who is going to monitor this from an organizational perspective. I want to know who they are. I want to know what their work ethic is because I, for the first time, have had my, my first negative experience with LA28.”

“They also have guarantees to ensure an additional $346 million in allocated contingency for a total of $616 million. So the question is, does the agreement ensure we have audit rights sufficient to confirm LA28 has drawn down the full $616 million in contingency if needed?”

“I, I join, I’m sure, the entire board in commending Metro staff and our Games Mobility executive partners for successfully securing $90 million through the Federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026. As you indicated, it’s an important down payment preparing for our transportation network for 2028 Olympics and Paralympics Games and reflects the strong collaboration among our regional partners.”

“One of the things that came to mind for me, um, first of all, the fiscal challenges are real, and that’s a huge gap, and we know that it’s not going to be an easy lift. But one of the things I did not hear was figuring in with an estimated 1.2 million additional users per day during the Olympics.”

“The problem here is that the city, as part of our agreement, is the financial backstop for the game. So what we are also financially invested— if LA28 runs a deficit exceeding $540 million, you know who’s on the hook?”

“We may not be able to recover with some of these proposed cuts. So that’s on that. And on the federal level, well, 878 million for, uh, Olympics.”

“You know, if you expand the catchment zone in my area, you’re going to ostensibly bring folks from Olympic-related areas into the area, but we’re already full and we don’t have enough space for the folks who are homeless, uh, around those, those areas.”

“I know this is a very tight, tight schedule to get done before we have to shut it down for the Olympics and then reopen it again Post Olympics, so just wonder if anybody had a what’s the plan for providing those milestones and making sure we hit those?”

“Supervisor Hahn has this fabulous idea to do a ferry for the Olympics. I want to roll out the ferry before the Olympics and do it for the bridge closure.”

“Happy to start off. I know that the emergency authorization was granted to ensure that you all were able to complete this before the Summer Olympics.”

“If there was a need for like a concrete road to be built related to that event, LA28 and the city could put it in as a temporary intervention without any authorization or stop from the council.”