Los Angeles allegedly plans to spend $500K to install Olympic flags at City Hall

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The 2024 Paris Olympics just ended, making way for the 2028 Games returning to Los Angeles. However, the "City of Angels" is not waiting four years to start preparing for everything to come. 

Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia claims Los Angeles intends on installing Olympic flags at City Hall, and it will cost $500,000 to do so. 

"The City of LA is suffering from a Budget Crisis, so what better way to spend $500,000 from the General Fund’s Capital Improvement Fund?" Mejia alleged on X. 

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Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass waves the Olympic flag next to LA28 Chairman Casey Wasserman after their plane landed during the event celebrating the arrival of the Olympic flag at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 2024. Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. (ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

"Not on actual capital/infrastructure improvements (which we direly need), but one installing OLYMPIC FLAGS at City Hall!"

Social media users flooded Mejia’s comments, where they voiced their frustrations. 

"Can anyone explain how installing flags cost half a million bucks??" one X user commented. 

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Another added, "$500,000?? Who approves these bids?"

"Ridiculous! Let the US Olympic Committee pay for that or put it in a closet for 4 years!" another X user said. 

Fox News Digital has not yet heard back from the city for comment. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass brought the official Olympic flag to her city after receiving it during the closing ceremony in Paris at the conclusion of the Summer Games. The flag