An AP article that appears in Saturday’s Chronicle provides another recap of the ballpark situation. Most of it is available in other reports and on this blog as well. There was one new piece of info that I found telling:

Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente said the city is committed to evaluating the potential of the area where the A’s want to build and will dedicate someone to the job but there are many hurdles.

“More than money, there are definitely going to be other issues. You have a lot of challenges in that site but that doesn’t mean that that cannot be done,” De La Fuente said. “We’re going to be working with them and hopefully we’ll arrive to some great solution.”

“Committed to evaluating the potential” and “will dedicate someone to the job” do not sound promising. I understand that both the city and the county are in a budget crunch, but someone should have been steering this in City Hall two weeks ago.