Equipped with a small pulley cart loaded with 32 thick documents, Mayor Thao wheeled Oakland's plans to keep the A's into a private meeting room and proceeded to clear the air with MLB's top officials.
Manfred and Halem each received a copy of the documents and the other 30 were left to be distributed to MLB's owners.
The meeting, which lasted an hour, went well by all accounts. Oakland city officials including Chief of Staff Leigh Hanson, Howard Terminal Project manager Molly Maybrun and the Mayor's Chief of Communications Pati Navalta were also there to assist in providing information. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao poses for photo with group that met with MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred in Seattle.
Manfred and Halem were able to get up to speed on Oakland's side of exactly where things stood with the A's before the parties walked away from negotiations in April. Questions were asked and answered. Contacts were exchanged. The Mayor and her staff flew back to Oakland later that night. The Oakland contingent even left the pully cart there to ease MLB's distribution of the stack of documents.
The meeting was a pivotal and necessary step after months of uncertainty as to whether the commissioner or mayor would be the first to pick up the phone. Commissioner Manfred had initially said he'd call Mayor Thao after she was elected and then never did. The A's had asked the mayor not to reach out directly to the commissioner during negotiations. It was a disconnect that lingered and is now solved.
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