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≡ MARCH 6 ASSEMBLY HEARING ≡
A unique hearing of the California State Assembly Select Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place on Friday, 6 March at the LA84 Foundation in Los Angeles, on the topic of “Lessons and Legacy Impacts of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.”
The LA84 Foundation, of course, is the living legacy of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, which staged the ‘84 Games and turned an Olympic Movement saddled with terrorism, financial failures and boycotts into a worldwide power in sports marketing and presentation.
The two-hour session is slated from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is free and open to the public in the LA84 Foundation pavilion. Chaired by Assembly member Tina McKinnor (D-61st District), short presentations are scheduled from people who were part of the effort that made the Games – and its legacy – a success:
● Renata Simril, President of the LA84 Foundation and of the Play Equity Fund.
● Renato Pavia, an LA84 Foundation grant recipient and member of the Access Youth Academy in San Diego, California.
● Derek Fisher, former Lakers star and an Advisory Board member of the Play Equity Fund.
● Bob Graziano, LAOOC ticket department manager and past LA84 Foundation Board Chair.
● Rich Perelman, LAOOC Vice President/Press Operations and Editor, The Sports Examiner.
● Zev Yaroslavsky, former Los Angeles City Council member (during the Games period), later Los Angeles County Supervisor; Director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Not yet confirmed is Anita DeFrantz, the senior International Olympic Committee member in the U.S., and the long-time head of the LA84 Foundation, who served as a Vice President/Olympic Villages for the LAOOC, responsible for the USC Olympic Village.
Simril and Pavia will speak to the legacy efforts of the Foundation, chartered with $93 million (40%) of the LAOOC’s $232.5 million surplus from the 1984 Games. Fisher will focus on the continuation of legacy efforts into 2028 and beyond for all area youth. Graziano and Perelman will give brief talks on the delivery of the Games, especially in the planning, innovation, and execution phases.
Yaroslavsky, and if available, DeFrantz, will talk on the lasting impact of the 1984 Games on Los Angeles and beyond.
This is the first meeting of the Assembly Committee on the 2028 Games; the California State Senate’s Special Committee on International Sporting Events met in Sacramento in July 2025.
It is also believed to be the first hearing of any governmental body involved in oversight of the 2028 Games on the development, outcome and legacy of the Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad in 1984.
The LA84 Foundation is located at 2141 West Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles (90018); parking availability is primarily on the surrounding streets; if you wish to attend, please give yourself time to park and walk.
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