LA 2024 Completes Series of Community Meetings in all 15 Los Angeles City Council Districts

LA 2024 leaders today marked an important bid milestone of participating in community forums with residents in all fifteen Los Angeles council districts, a reflection of the committee's work of ensuring all Angelenos have a voice in the city's Olympic and Paralympic plans. Last night's meeting at the San Fernando Valley's Pacoima City Hall with residents of LA Council District 7 marked the culmination of over a year’s worth of community meetings that have featured Olympians, Paralympians and bid leaders, fulfilling LA 2024's commitment to participate in meetings in each council district as part of its January 2016 Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Los Angeles.

Led by community manager Joslyn Treece, LA 2024's citywide community meeting program has provided LA 2024 with valuable feedback as it creates a low-risk, high-tech and sustainable Games that serves people of Southern California and the global Olympic Movement. Additionally, LA 2024 bid leaders pointed to the meetings as both a testament to the committee’s close working relationship with the City of Los Angeles and as further proof of Angelenos’ desire to host the Games in Los Angeles in 2024.

LA 2024 has participated in meetings in Atwater Village, Chatsworth, Downtown LA, Encino, Hollywood, Lake Balboa, Lincoln Heights, Mar Vista, Mid City, Pacoima, Reseda, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, South LA, Studio City, Universal City, Van Nuys, West Hollywood, Westchester and Westwood.

LA 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman said: "LA is a city that lives and breathes sport, and our conversations with Angelenos over the past year have reinforced the notion that the Olympic and Paralympic Games are truly a part of our city’s DNA. Excitement for bringing the Games back to the US for the first time in 28 years is overflowing in Los Angeles - 88% of Angelenos support hosting the Games in 2024, according to a poll conducted independently by Loyola Marymount University. Angelenos’ enthusiasm has inspired our work to bring the Games back to a community that loves the Olympic movement and deliver a transformative Games in 2024."

LA 2024 community manager Joslyn Treece said: "On behalf of LA 2024, we are humbled and inspired by the support Angelenos have shown for our low-risk, high-tech and sustainable New Games for a new era. Every single community meeting we have participated in this past year has resulted in enlightening and productive conversations with residents who care deeply about the neighborhoods they call home. We look forward to continuing these meetings in the new year, and to using the input received to refine our offering to the IOC and the Olympic Movement."

LA 2024 Vice Chair and Director of Athlete Relations Janet Evans said: "From an athlete's perspective, it’s difficult to emphasize enough what an asset it is to compete in front of passionate fans, in a warm and welcoming environment. Having attended many of these community meetings, I have no doubt that Angelenos would relish the chance to welcome the world’s greatest athletes to our city. It would be our great honor to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games back to the people of Los Angeles. That’s why our Games Plan includes sport parks in various areas of our city - from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach - so that an LA Games would truly be a city-wide Games made to be enjoyed by all Angelenos."

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