The Los Angeles City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at 8:30 AM (start time inferred from proceedings). The meeting covered a broad agenda including emergency response to the Boyle Heights warehouse fire, readoption of the city's oil phase-out ordinance, a ballot measure to fund the LAFD, and critical funding for eviction defense services. Public comment lasted over 90 minutes, with many speakers urging action on tenant protections and homeless services.
All 19 matches will be broadcast at Union Station. This is the only free location in all of Los Angeles that will be hosting a fan zone where fans can come to see the FIFA broadcast shown both in Spanish and English. And we're showing it throughout Union Station, both in the fan zone and on a 76-foot LED screen inside the waiting room. The fan zone will be fully interactive with a lot of different things for friends and family to do. Guests should definitely register on eventbrite so that they can solidify their position. However, on the day of the event, folks can also come to Union Station, scan a QR code and register there. The event is free for the public, so anybody can come to the event as long as they register on event right. Come kick it with recreation and parks. Well, it's the only app built by Metro for Metro Riders. So you have a lot of options, a lot of great apps out there, but this is the only one where we're working with our customers, with our riders to make the experience customized for Metro and for Los Angeles. If you want to kind of plan your trip from point A to point B. If you're in a location and you want to figure out how to get to another location, you can see all the bus and rail lines and bike options near you. You could customize your favorite stop. Many of our riders take the same trip every single day to work to school. So if you want to customize the experience just around those lines, the app begins to learn who you are and the experience kind of molds around your trips that you take every day. We also have put a bunch of Metro amenities and features into the app. So if you want to find a bathroom, want to find a tap retailer. If you're looking for a bike locker, you can do that as well. We are going to start listening to our riders and beginning to improve the app over time. So it becomes something unique to Metro, unique to Metro riders and unique to LA. My role here today is to demonstrate how customers are going to pay using their credit and debit card fares on Metro and across over 26 participating agencies. You can use the same car that's already in your pocket or in your digital wallet to pay for the transit fee. So all you do is take a plastic cart, you tap at the readers once, wait for the confirmation on the reader's screen, and then you just continue to write. This is not only for about one event. This was always a Metro's long-term fair modernization plan, and it just aligns well with the work. This ability to pay using credit and debit card is just another convenient way for our riders who are daily riders, occasional or visitors who we will see a significant amount coming for the FIFA World Cup, as well as for the Olympics and Para Olympics in 2028. The electrifying roar of the crowd during a pivotal match is an unrivaled experience. Every second on the pitch counts and the action is entrancing from discovering the starting 11 to analyzing team performance and finding star players descending to total prominence on the World Cup stage. Bring it on. Local and international World Cup supporters are flocking to the FIFA fan festival, taking place at the LA Memorial Coliseum, filling the stadium with noise and joy, creating an unforgettable fan experience in a legendary sporting arena. Welcome to FIFA World Cup here in Los Angeles. We are kickstart was finding a venue and then deciding what we were going to do in this venue to make it a very exciting fan festival for the people that are attending. If you've been here before and you came for football games, and now you're coming for this, you're gonna be shocked. The World Cup is a 39-day event this summer. The FIFA fan festival is going to be really meant to be this large-scale opening weekend celebration. As you can see behind me, massive screens, interactive food displays all over the place. We have great entertainment, all these immersive experiences. People are gonna have a really amazing time. We've got characters walking around, we've got labubu, we've got Paw Patrol, we've got the FIFA mascots for the kids to enjoy. But most importantly, if you're here to watch the matches, you grab something to eat and drink, you grab a seat, and you're watching it on five different screens here with everybody else. And you it's like you're at the match live. It's all meant to be family friendly. Tickets for this event are only $10. It's 12 and under are free. People will be able to take Metro to this fan festival fast, easy, and affordable. Only $1.75. We have two rail stations right next door. Short walk from our USC stations right here to the Coliseum. To make it easier for riders and fans to identify which buses they want want to ride, we have wrapped our buses in the official World Cup colors and logos for Los Angeles. What we did was we captured all the iconic sites in Los Angeles, which is what you see on the exterior.