Los Angeles Coliseum

The director of the earthquake repair project at the Los Angeles Coliseum said Wednesday that he expects a final agreement to be reached with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in about a month on funding of the repairs, with only $2.4 million of the total $99.5-million cost left for the Coliseum Commission to pay. Don C. Webb said that $80.4 million has been disbursed for the repairs by government agencies. FEMA has paid $78.4 million and the state $2 million. Webb said the state has $7.

Negotiations have been completed on a one-year agreement to send the Raiders back to Oakland if they are without their home field in Los Angeles this season, according to Don Perata, a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. But there is no indication the Raiders are ready to sign the agreement.

Mayor Tom Bradley has scheduled a meeting Monday with local business leaders to talk about Los Angeles being in jeopardy of not having a National Football League team in the future. The Raiders moved from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982, but the team's future home is uncertain. "Whether it's the Raiders or some other professional team, this city, the second-largest city in the country, must have a professional football team," Bradley said today.

Spokesmen for the Los Angeles Coliseum complex and the business partnership that is proposed to run the facilities are calling unacceptable a request from the state Museum of Science and Industry for partial veto power over events at the Coliseum and Sports Arena. Museum officials have expressed concern that a private Coliseum manager might schedule so many events that traffic jams and lack of parking could adversely affect attendance at the adjacent Exposition Park museums.

Los Angeles Coliseum officials said Monday that talks are continuing with the two business partnerships bidding to become the private managers of the Coliseum complex, and that no preferred bidder will be designated for the time being. Coliseum General Manager Joel Ralph had said earlier that a preferred bidder would be named by now. Officials said the commission's special negotiator, stadium expert Lawrence G.

From 1973 to 1986, Jim Hardy was general manager of the Los Angeles Coliseum. He talked recently of the current plight of the 71-year-old facility, still undergoing repairs from last January's earthquake. Recently, one estimate pegged the repair bill at $92.7 million and climbing. "It's sad to me, what's happening to the Coliseum," he said. "It's a classic case of throwing good money after bad.

City Councilman Joel Wachs called Wednesday for an investigation by the council of the circumstances involved in the collapse of a plan by the Spectacor partnership to renovate the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with private financing. "If this project is a bad one for private investors, then it certainly must be a bad one for the taxpayers," said Wachs, who has a resolution pending in the council opposing the use of any public money for Coliseum renovations.

Citing what they call a flat contradiction in sworn testimony by Los Angeles Raiders owner Al Davis, lawyers for the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission have asked a Superior Court judge for a summary judgment throwing out the Raiders' $9.5-million breach-of-contract suit against the commission.