The mayor has said we want to make sure we have valued it correctly. We have made a commitment to Mr. Patel and his attorney that once we have completed that appraisal process, we will...

If our talks break down, then we will proceed to court.

We do try to work with groups that want to hold marches or protests to make sure they have the opportunity to exercise their rights if that’s what they want to do. This request was...

The thing that hung us up was we could not provide documented proof. Their (Union Pacific) perspective was it really wasn’t that serious of an issue.

We’re really working every angle of this issue. The most important issue for us is getting the residents’ homes cleaned and getting their homes restored.

With this technology and this capacity to provide documentation, hopefully we’ll make some breakthroughs. We need the railroad people to stand up and react accordingly.

The city had always acknowledged mistakes had been made in regards to the issue.