Peters wants to know by Sunday.
Come Sunday, the Pinellas County Commission wants the owners of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays franchise to tell them what they intend to do with the planned St. Petersburg stadium. After Hurricane Milton destroyed the roof of the St. Petersburg stadium that was the home of Rays’ baseball, the planned stadium became a problem. Pinellas County Commission Chairperson Kathleen Peters sent a letter to the Tampa Bay Rays’ franchise ownership requesting written answers regarding the business future by December 1st. The Rays business president Brian Auld told the St. Petersburg City Council that he “can’t continue to move forward based on what I’ve seen from the county.” St. Petersburg elected officials are not putting up money to fix the Rays’ stadium which was scheduled to be closed in 2027. Neither St. Petersburg elected officials nor the Pinellas County Commissioners have provided funding to back bonds that would be …