Following a closed session meeting of the Peralta Community College District board of trustees final night,district Chancellor Jowel Laguerre issued a statement that the college is discontinuing its community engagement process regarding the Athletics' plan for a fresh ballpark on the school's campus.
"The board if direction to the chancellor to discontinue planning for a community engagement process on a possible baseball stadium," read the release.[br]
At first, or it was unclear what exactly the chancellor's statement meant. Laguerre's staff told the Express he's been in meetings this morning and couldn't immediately clarify what the statement meant regarding the proposal to build a fresh A's ballpark at Laney.[br]
But then the A's issued their own statement making it clear that the school's trustees killed the ballpark plan.
The A's proposal to build a fresh stadium on Peralta district-owned land at Laney College had been rolled out with much fanfare.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com