Sports 007 the Baseball: City of Minneapolis has talks with the Minnesota Vikings Stadium

Talks about a new Minnesota Vikings Stadium on the site of the Metrodome in Minneapolis on again.

Mayor r.t. Rybak met to discuss the future since a plan for a new home, according to the team and the city searches with team brass Friday the team. The meeting comes as lawmakers to fund the development of legislation, which is probably a billion dollar venture wait occurring a plan.

On Friday the first such meeting between the team and Rybak was since last year's legislative session, when a stadium Bill failed to gain traction. It is also the first such meeting since Ramsey County last week officially explore his wish, a stadium in Arden Hills made. It is also the first substantive discussion with Rybak about a new stadium because collapsed the dome's roof under the weight of a 17-inch snowfall in December.

Deflated roof Sunday survived the 13 inches of snow and partially deflated condition and a retreat to win approach to the fresh powder said Monday you, its an official of the stadium.

"It is completely drained and the heat from inside, so we are able to melt the snow" said Bill Lester, Executive Director of the Metropolitan sports facilities Commission owns the Metrodome. Lester, said that with the roof melts slump, the snow rapidly, snow clearing efforts unnecessary by Monday evening.

The meltwater is simply by outflows in many of the 108 roof panels must trickle and the artificial drainage system is the treatment of

the flow in a room whose climate that at 80 degrees, is something like a tropical rainforest.

The Commission intends to repair the dome in time for next season that individual lease Vikings under conditions of its current.

Stadium site options have substantially narrowed to two: demolition of downtown Metrodome and new, building or clearing part of abandoned Army ammunition plant in Arden Hills and building from scratch on it.

Rybak against a third site in Minneapolis near target field, where play the Minnesota Twins. Building it would mean to buy land and moving a farmers market under other operations, adding at least $150 million to the costs of the buildings on the site of dome after a letter Rybak and Minneapolis City Council President Barbara Johnson on State Capitol State or Government earlier this month.

Ted Mondale, Governor Mark Dayton's point man for the stadium and Chairman which Metropolitan sports facilities Commission, said he was unaware of Friday's meeting and could not speculate on its meaning. But he stressed that he always meeting with policy makers, he appetite in the Legislative Assembly for a stadium plan believe it approved before the session ends in May.

"It's a feeling that before you go home, before you close the budget, you deal with the Stadium issue," he said.

Neither the team nor the city discussed the details of the Friday's talks, the Rybak, chief financial officer of the Vikings include Steve Poppen and Lester Bagley, the team Vice President Public Affairs and Stadium development.

"We had a good discussion" Bagley said, involved generalizations, pinning the as typical for public statements of any stadium talks lately. "We talked about what we try to reach to the legislator languages of our current situation and we." We need a local partner in financial terms. ... "(Rybak) he was gracious."

Rybak has noted that public funds for a stadium regional or nationwide, be worn must rather than exclusively by Minneapolis taxpayers. Meet on Friday's, spokesman John Stiles said "The Mayor of his support for a solution confirms that keeps the Vikings in Minnesota."

During Rybak has he believes that the Metrodome is the best site available, has he held shortly from the Arden Hills able to criticize.

The same can not for Ramsey County's legislative delegation, be said of the many signed oppose a letter the website that to raise, to help a city sales tax could involve numbers for a stadium to the plan. Lobbyist and some Commissioners have worked on the signatories of the letter, with mixed results, according to the participating County.

Officially, Ramsey County has only just begun to explore the possibility of a national stage although talks with some Commissioners and the team for months have taken place. The two lead Commissioners, Rafael Ortega and Tony Bennett, said no property tax increase would support.