Growing weary of the years-long effort to try to secure state funding for a ballpark for the Marlins, at least a few Miami-Dade County Commissioners are ready to move ahead without state help. And if Commissioner Dennis Moss has his way, that should cost Florida its name on the Marlins’ jerseys, too.

A name change - to Miami Marlins - has been contemplated for years if a new ballpark is ever built in Miami. Moss pushed for the new name again Thursday during a meeting of the commission’s Airport and Tourism Committee.

Moss also suggested that since the county plans to contribute millions of dollars in hotel bed and sports facilities taxes to the ballpark, which it would also own, the team should hold spring training at the Homestead baseball stadium once its lease at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter expires. After all, Moss said, the county also helped pay for the Homestead ballpark, which was meant to be the spring home of the Cleveland Indians, but was abandoned after it was damaged during Hurricane Andrew.

“I wholeheartedly support this,” Commissioner Rebeca Sosa said. If a stadium is built, Sosa said, “We agree to change the name to Miami Marlins. There’s a commitment with them that it stays. The state didn’t give you a penny, that means you don’t belong to Florida. We are going to build the stadium so you belong to Miami, you belong to Dade County.

Commissioner Carlos Gimenez also said it’s time to give up on state funding and put a ballpark proposal before the commission so it can decide whether to move forward.

“Waiting for this state money has probably cost us a couple hundred million dollars. I think it’s time we move on,” Gimenez said. “Forget the state … if we had just gone ahead and built it, it would have cost a couple hundred million dollars less than now. Forget the state, it’s not going to happen.”

Gimenez suggested the funding gap in the $490 million ballpark plan could be bridged by value engineering or some other method.

“Bring it forward. The final decision will be up to the board of county commissioners,” he said. “We need to move on. The more we delay the more it’s going to cost. Let’s bring something to the table. We need to vote it up or down, then we’ll know.”

A move to the Homestead baseball stadium is unlikely in the near future: the Marlins’ lease at Roger Dean Stadium runs through 2017 with two additional five-year options.