They presumably have less information to gather in light of what the Ticats/Paletta group are offering as a deal. There are no issues with land acquisition, soil remediation, money coming outta city funds for the stadium and other buildings. There shouldn’t be questions about management and profit-sharing, when Burlington isn’t paying a dime for anything other than whatever roadwork is needed along the highway and the developers manage and maintain the stadium. All the Burlington staff have to do is make sure there are no stadium zoning issues, obtain assurances from Toronto2015/HOSTCO and the private group that they have a shot for approval if Hamilton pulls out (and the proposed financing arrangement can be put into contract form and approved in time), and crunch the numbers to determine if the roadwork needs are reasonable or not for the municipal budget to handle over the next few years while construction of the arena/stadium/hotel/sports facilities/etc go ahead.
I would imagine that there is some form of private assurances that have been communicated to Burlington Council that a Pan-Am relocation there IS a possibility; they presumably wouldn’t vote to study a complete red herring!