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Sabates Wants Expense Money from Centennial Authority

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RALEIGH — The man who headed up Raleigh's bid to lure aprofessional hockey franchise now wants the Centennial Authority toreimburse him for his efforts.

Felix Sabates says he wants nearly $00,000 returned to him, becausethat's what he spent trying to win a National Hockey League Franchise forRaleigh. He dropped his bid when local politicians failed to come up withan agreement on a proposed arena.

The financier says he may pursue legal action if he doesn't get hismoney.

Meanwhile, there was another delay Thursday night for the arena.

A joint meeting between Raleigh City Council and Wake CountyCommissioners was cancelled. The meeting had been called for the purposeof discussing arena funding.

Both groups support the building of an arena, but the size and means ofpaying for it are at issue.

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