L.A. Rams expected to get OK for spring practice in Oxnard

The Los Angeles Rams will hold a one-day team meeting March 4 in Manhattan Beach to update players on the relocation process to Los Angeles, with a heavy emphasis focused on where the Rams will set up a temporary site for minicamps and OTA’s through midsummer and identifying a training camp site.

At least one of those sites is close to being official.

The Oxnard City Council on Tuesday is expected to approve a deal with the Rams to set up temporary headquarters at the same site the Dallas Cowboys hold training camp. If everything goes as plaed, the Rams will set up shop in Oxnard in early April and stay through the middle of June. Soon after, the Cowboys will retu for training camp.

“It’s a tu key facility with what the Cowboys have done up there,” Rams president and CEO Kevin Demoff said. “From there — the Cowboys will be coming back in July — we need to find a new training camp home and we’ve talked to a number of different universities about that opportunity.”

Although nothing is official on training camp, the Rams are leaning strongly toward UC Irvine.

Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks remains a possibility, though.

In addition, the Rams are scouring the Southe Califoia for a temporary headquarters and practice facility site they can use throughout the 2016 season.

“We’re looking for what I call permanent/temporary space all around Los Angeles, with a focus on the (San Feando) Valley area, and trying to get a handle on what that might look like and where that might be. And from there, where can your get office space.” Demoff said. “And of course, finding the permanent practice facility is an ongoing process, which will probably take most of 2016 is my guess.

“But hopefully by March 1st, we’ll have nailed down most of this.”

The Rams’ long-range plans for a team headquarter site is in the West San Feando Valley region around Thousand Oaks and Agoura Hills.

The agreement with Oxnard calls for the Rams to lease the fields for $510 per day from April 18 to June 17, a total cost of $31,110. The team will also lease the locker rooms at a cost of $680 per day from March 28 through June 24, a total cost of $59,840.

The team will provide maintenance, staff and other equipment. The city will provide utilities, up to $1,500 per month, and water costs.

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