If the Seattle City Council are any guide, if the Supersonics are to have a new arena any time soon they will be finding the funding themselves according to the Tacoma News Tribune.  Several elected officials contacted by The News Tribune were strongly opposed to providing public funding for a Sonics team that is losing millions of dollars a year.

?Financially, the city is on hard times right now,? said Peter Steinbrueck, chairman of the urban development and planning committee. ?We would probably lose our jobs as electives if we took any of those ideas seriously and advocated for any of those sorts of things at a time that we are cutting back library services and basic core government services. We haven?t stopped hearing about the excesses in the other two stadiums. People still are holding that against us."

?The Sonics are hurting right now financially, I am sure. In the games, they are not performing well, and I don?t think a new stadium is going to change that, nor will it suddenly improve attendance. So I think the answer is to play better, play harder and win some games and attendance will pick up again.?