about a year into it, starting last march, january or february, john nicotopolis called me and said he would like to do a deal with these guys. i put them both together. we had two meetings. we had come to a purchase agreement and lease terms. [tone!] supervisor elsbernd: that means you have 30 seconds. >> we had come to lease terms. they started to go back and forth on arguing final bits of the lease. they got very angry with each other on both sides. there was a lot of fighting. no decision was ever come to as far as signing any agreement with mike and alex. [tone!] at the very last minute -- supervisor elsbernd: thank you. supervisor campos: what is your role with respect to the current bill before us? >> after this, i started working with john and the gentleman that came in and wanted to purchase the eagle. the criteria, the only thing different on the offers is that they were willing to do the money it took to put the condition of the building back into shape. that was terms of a long of any negotiations going on with anybody trying to purchase it. the gentleman spoke earlier that