The city Parks, Recreation Grounds and Facilities Authority voted Monday night to disband, but not before selling its share of Kelly Automotive Park’s primary tenant.

The authority, responsible for managing the ballpark, voted to sell its 40 percent share of the Butler BlueSox baseball team to U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-3rd, for $60,000.

The board then voted to have its solicitor draft an agreement with the city redevelopment authority, which owns the ballpark, to end its management responsibilities.

The redevelopment authority will take over managing the park itself, but will likely turn much of that role over to the newly reformed Pullman Board of Trust, which includes members Dave Schmidt, Bill Spohn and Tom Burnatoski in addition to Kelly, who is the chairman.

The trust managed Pullman Park for about seven decades before the redevelopment authority rebuilt the stadium in 2007 and took control of it.

After the meeting, board member Jeff Smith said that dissolving the facilities authority could take several months, but said he doesn’t expect the facilities authority to be active past the first couple months of next year.

City council will need to act on the measure, and the city would have to go through the state for final approval, Smith said.

Smith said facilities authority members felt it would be an unnecessary layer to government now that the trust will manage the park.

“We took out a layer of bureaucracy,” Smith said following the meeting.

Kelly’s $60,000 offer to buy the authority’s 40 percent share of BlueSox, the stadium’s primary tenant, topped the only other bid made by the team’s majority ownership group, Perfect Game LLC.

The majority group bid $40,000.

Kelly’s bid will need approval from the Prospect League before it is finalized.

The authority was looking to sell its share of the BlueSox to help pay off its debts until the stadium would be able to start generating more revenue.