Missions Baseball

The UTSA Center for Public Opinion Research found that more than half of all voters in the poll have not yet picked their candidate for mayor.

SAISD officials said the proposals within the Memorandum of Understanding will form the basis of contracts that will be negotiated now that the board has given approval.

The San Antonio Independent School District has released a draft Memorandum of Understanding for the purchase of district land for the new Missions ballpark.

SAISD trustees voted to give the parties involved with the ballpark development until Dec. 9 to accept the terms or respond with a proposal of their own.

Trustees for the San Antonio Independent School District are expected to vote Monday, Nov. 18, on a proposal to sell district land to the owners of the Missions baseball team.

In September, Peter Sakai said a new minor league baseball stadium would bring the district millions of dollars in new revenue every year. But district officials said his projection did not use the Texas school funding formula.

Dozens of parents and community members cited traffic, pedestrian safety, and displacement as reasons for the board not to sell the land.

The plan to build a new stadium for the San Antonio Missions involves the demolition of an apartment complex that currently hosts over 300 San Antonio residents.

The proposed ballpark deal for the San Antonio Missions comes with no direct funding from the city or tax breaks, but some say it will cost taxpayers in the end.

The District 6 representative said the early results of a community wide survey on a new downtown ballpark for the Missions were overwhelmingly supportive of the idea.