Transportation, homelessness and female empowerment will be on the agenda in Paris Friday as Mayor Karen Bass leads a delegation of Los Angeles officials hoping to learn from their European counterparts as the cities prepare to host the next two Summer Olympics.
Bass, City Council President Paul Krekorian, council members Traci Park and Katy Yaroslavsky, Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins, LA84 Foundation President and CEO Renata Simril and Priscilla Cheng, senior vice president for government relations at LA28, traveled to Paris on Wednesday for the five-day trip.
Friday’s scheduled events are as follows:
— Briefings from Paris officials about their preparations to maximize public transportation, increase safety, generate economic development and create lasting positive impact from the Games and the millions of visitors expected to arrive in Paris this summer.
— In honor of International Women’s Day, Bass will participate in a conference and luncheon hosted by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, with panel discussions featuring women leaders and advocates. Bass will join Hidalgo, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, Mauritanian political leader Fatimatou Abdel Malick and Mongolian Foreign Minister Battsetseg Batmunkh in “conversation about their journeys to elected office.”
— The delegation will tour La Fabrique de la Solidarité to learn about Paris’ homelessness response strategy. La Fabrique specializes in distribution of basic necessities and support for seniors, and provides training courses for volunteers, coordinates donations of money, clothes and other supplies, and provides information and resources for members of the unhoused community. The delegation will join the Paris Homelessness Assistance Unit to learn more about their unhoused outreach efforts in Paris ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
— Meeting with Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, French minister of sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Oudéa-Castéra is the first woman and first…
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