A Los Angeles City Council committee Tuesday advanced recommendations to modernize the Convention Center without expanding the facility until after the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, as top city officials warned about the ramifications were the city to miss its completion deadline.

In a contentious 3-2 vote, the five-member Budget and Finance Committee forwarded a new action plan — presented by committee Chair Katy Yaroslavsky and seconded by Councilman Bob Blumenfield — with the intent to deliver an enhanced Convention Center without increasing its current size.

“I want to see investment in these high-road jobs, but the risks to the project as proposed, and the risks to the city’s finances are too great, and risks us having to cut our city workforce to offset the cost of the

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