OAKLAND — As Alameda County irons out an agreement with the Oakland Athletics to sell its ownership share of the Coliseum complex to the team, Oakland City Council members, in a letter sent Monday, called on the county to reconsider selling its share to the city instead.
Council members Rebecca Kaplan and Larry Reid, in their letter to Alameda County Board of Supervisors President Richard Valle, expressed concern over the potential sale to the A’s, “not for the purpose of a ballpark development, and without clarity of what the development would include or what community benefits would be involved,” the letter said.