Seahawks Will Pay for Maintenance

The Seattle Seahawks will pay the cost of the Anaheim city maintenance crew working on Rams Park, a city official said Thursday.

The crew began fixing the facility Feb. 1, a day before the city announced that the Seahawks had agreed to use it as a temporary training site. The work is scheduled to continue another 10 days, according to Bret Colson, a city spokesman. City officials said they are unable to estimate the cost of the work.

“This was part of the agreement from the beginning,” Colson said.

A city official said no meetings with Seahawk owner Ken Behring have been scheduled. The two sides will not meet until after Behring has “taken care of things with the NFL,” according to the official.

Behring is in Chicago, attending the NFL owners’ meeting.

At Rams Park, a second truck containing Seahawk equipment was unloaded Thursday. A team spokesman said the move will be completed by early next week.

The move has attracted former Ram employees who were left behind when the team moved to St. Louis.

George Campbell, who worked security at Rams Park for six years, and Melvin Beavers, who was a groundskeeper, came to the facility Wednesday seeking jobs. They were told that Seahawk officials were not on the premises.

* A DEAD END?

NFL owners have plenty of good reasons why the Seattle Seahawks’ proposed move to Southern California will never happen. C16