Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

The Times cites a report by Links, the project's contractor.

Links is pointing the finger at the city, saying LA World Airports, or LAWA, and DWP have not reached an agreement over the use of solar power for the train, saying that is part of the increase in delays at least until February.

project already years behind schedule.

Today we did speak with LA Mayor Karen Bass.

the reliability and safety of the train.

So that is what the airport is saying.

And what appears to remain in dispute is who is responsible for signing the contract with DWP to power the train.

Reporting live at LAX, Annabelle Munoz, ABC7 Eyewitness News.

couple of reasons.

Number one, DWP bills are complicated because it's not just DWP.

But there's other charges on there that why in the city history it was decided to lump everything on a DWP bill.

I'm not exactly sure.

But let me just say that we went through a brutal summer.

It was hot 24 hours.

I think a lot of people left their air conditioning on 24 hours a day.

But I've asked DWP to look into it.

Well, they actually embraced it, and it was important to me.

Now, the DWP, as you're mentioning, does do their own internal audits, and we do have a city controller that does audits.

But I wanted it to be an independent audit that DWP would pay for and that we would bring in an outside company to do it.

I didn't want it to be a department in the city, and I didn't want it to be DWP.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

It's happening in Los Angeles.

I don't know if you heard the LADWP.

Everybody's electric bills went up like a bazillion percent.

And people are like, we're not using more energy.

Certain things just can't fail.

Prime example, Edison or DWP.

I don't know what else is out here on Long Beach.

What electric companies out here.

And I've been able to communicate with the Trump administration in spite of fighting with him, too.

You know, Mayor Bass, I saw you on TV the other day talking about an independent audit for LADWP because of these astronomic bills that people are getting.

In my history, because I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, I know they don't like outside audits.

How are they going to handle it and what was their reaction to it?

11 systems that were affected in both the Palisades and Eaton fires.

And they ranged from extremely large systems like the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power system, which has nearly 4 million people that are serviced through it, down to much smaller systems that have been around since, you know, for over 100 years.

years and have their roots in designs when Los Angeles wasn't as urban as it is now.

And so the impacts that you end up having in one or the other and how quickly those systems can turn around and come back up and stand themselves back up.

Yeah, it's the three big issues are homelessness, affordability, particularly housing affordability.

DWP bills have been sky high and that's coming up and public safety.

And Mayor Bass has she's running for the conservative vote.

She's she's heavily going for