{"id":375782,"date":"2026-08-19T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375782\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:32:10","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-ballpark-votes-could-come-as-soon-as-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375782\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays ballpark votes could come as soon as next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Rays logo\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IF5RKYDPTBF5JHAGV76WYLUO4I.ashx.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan said that definitive votes on the Rays\u2019 ballpark proposal by Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa are \u201cclose to being scheduled.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan said on local radio station WDAE\u2019s \u201cThe Pat &amp; Aaron Show\u201d Tuesday morning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/24\/tampa-city-council-delays-rays-ballpark-vote-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/24\/tampa-city-council-delays-rays-ballpark-vote-again\/\">definitive votes<\/a> on the Rays\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/09\/rays-show-off-interior-of-planned-tampa-ballpark-in-new-renderings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/07\/09\/rays-show-off-interior-of-planned-tampa-ballpark-in-new-renderings\/\">ballpark proposal<\/a> by Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa are \u201cclose to being scheduled,\u201d according to Nicolas Villamil of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. Hagan added, \u201cOur goal is to try and schedule the necessary meetings for next week.\u201d Hagan said that he was told by Rays CEO Ken Babby on Monday that the team and city \u201chave reached a point where a vote can soon be scheduled.\u201d He maintained that \u201cthe City Council will vote first.\u201d Villamil noted Hillsborough commissioners \u201cusually meet every other Wednesday, while City Council meets nearly every Thursday.\u201d Hagan has previously said that he \u201ccould call a special County Commission meeting for a Rays vote on a Friday following a potential city vote.\u201d Villamil wrote next Thursday is the final City Council meeting in August, which is \u201cwhen Hagan and Babby have emphasized a vote needs to occur\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/rays\/2026\/08\/18\/hagan-rays-stadium-votes-close-being-set-hope-is-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/rays\/2026\/08\/18\/hagan-rays-stadium-votes-close-being-set-hope-is-next-week\/\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 8\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan said that definitive votes on the Rays\u2019 ballpark proposal by Hillsborough County and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3817,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-375782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}