The Washington, D.C., City Council is hoping to shore up keeping the Washington Nationals in the district as the NBA’s Wizards and NHL’s Capitals flirt with moving across the Potomac River to Virginia.

The council held a hearing on legislation Tuesday that would help fund maintenance for Nationals Park in the Navy Yard neighborhood using sales tax collected at the ballpark and rent paid from the lease for the ballpark. The legislation would help keep the stadium up to standard, ensuring a “stable future,” as council Chairman Phil Mendelson said in a statement in January.