The Oakland A’s are another step closer to a new ballpark in their namesake city thanks to councilmembers who voted to certify the final environmental report for the park.

The City Council voted 6-2 at its Feb. 17 meeting to pave the way for a binding financial agreement between the city and the A’s. That may happen this summer. Council members Noel Gallo and Carroll Fife opposed the certification. The project is located in Fife’s District 3.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.