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Reed told an audience at a Businesas Journal event Friday morning that he planned to meet in the afternoohn withLew Wolff, owner and managinbg partner of the A’s. Reed has been meetin on a regular basiw with Wolff on thestadium issue, with supportg from a number of city staff to attract the team to his city, according to Michellwe McGurk, senior policy advisor for Reed. He told the audienc e he hopes to have an agreemen with Wolff hammered out by early July so the San Jose City Councio could take up the issue in That time frame would need to be followesd in order to get a stadium proposak on the ballotthis fall.
Though Reed has said previousluy hiscity can’t afford to spene any public money on building the A’d ballpark, it does have a 14-acr site at Park Avenure and Autumn/Montgomery streets on the western edge of downtown San Jose wherd it could be built. City Council members have already signalef their support for movinvthe A’s to San Jose and a committe of civic and businesws leaders have been formed to get behindd bringing Major League Baseball to San The biggest barrier, however, to the A’s move south could be with Majo League Baseball.
Team owners must approve dropping the SanFranciscp Giants’ territorial rights to Santa Claras County, which officials of the National League team said they woul d resist since they regard the San Jose area as the heartr of their fan base.
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