Nithya Raman

I didn't hear from any of my constituents saying that they wanted this project to move forward.

That's very unusual for big decisions in front of the city.

It's going to take a couple of years.

And what is interesting about it is that we actually have Olympics events that are scheduled to happen at the convention center.

And so in order to make sure that the Olympics events are happening, what we have to do is

is to move the project forward until it gets to Olympics readiness.

It won't be done by the time the Olympics are happening, but we need to get to Olympics readiness.

And then we're going to kind of put walls around the remaining parts of the conventions that are there still under construction.

Then we're going to have the events there.

And then afterwards, we'll finish the project.

With debt service, yes.

I mean, we're going to be paying the debt for that for the next 30 years.

And the revenues will never cover the costs.

You know, I don't know the answer to that, to be honest with you, because that is not what we have right now here in Los Angeles.

So I don't know what the solution for actually caring about good governance is, except that I think it is absolutely necessary at this moment.

To me here, to live in this city, to think about the fact that I have to look my constituents...

in the face and say to them, you trust me, I'm going to address really complex issues like affordability.

I'm going to address really complex issues like homelessness, but I can't fix your streetlight for a year.

And just trust me, I got this.

That felt unacceptable to me.