photo by scott strazantte San Francisco Chronicle: Santa Clara residents hold up a sign reminding San Francisco 49ers Business Operations President Al Guido to follow the law and hand over documents regarding what the Niners did with tax payer money on stadium operations or not

The San Francisco 49ers and the City of Santa Clara are headed for a show down over documents that the city wants to see that itemize the team’s expenditures from tax payer money. The city wants to see what the 49ers have done with the money and that the money was not used for stadium operations. The 49ers have said to the city that they won’t hand over the documents no matter how many times the city asks for it.

Santa Clara mayor Lisa Gilmore said that this is not personal, political, grandstanding, but it’s something that the citizens have asked the city to do. Santa Clara has more than likely something to say about this otherwise they wouldn’t want to go to court on this. It’s highly probable it will end up in the court system and that at some point the 49ers could end up being ordered to produce documents as to how tax payer money was spent by the team.

David Zizmor does the 49ers podcast each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com