SAN DIEGO -- A sign negotiations could be ramping up regarding a new stadium being built in this city, San Diego Chargers team president Dean Spanos met with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and county supervisor Ron Roberts on Thursday.

“We look forward to beginning formal discussions with our respective negotiating teams shortly after the Citizens’ Stadium Advisory Group releases its final recommendations in two weeks,” Craig Gustafson, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, told KPBS.

The Chargers expressed a willingness to enter into future negotiations with the city and the county once the mayor-appointed, citizens’ stadium advisory group presents its recommendation of a finance plan for a new stadium at the Mission Valley site, where Qualcomm Stadium currently sits, May 20.

In March, Faulconer announced the city and county’s intentions to collaborate on an agreement allowing the two government entities to hire a high-powered negotiation team, expert attorneys and an investment banker to facilitate future talks on a stadium deal with the Chargers.

The city and county hired investment banker Citigroup and law firm Nixon Peabody to help with developing potential financing options and related development for a new stadium to house the Chargers.

The meeting also served as an information-gathering session for the Chargers, who will likely give an update on what is happening regarding the stadium issue in San Diego to the rest of the league in two weeks at the NFL owners meetings in San Francisco.

The Chargers maintain that staying in San Diego is the team’s first priority. However, if the Chargers do not get something worked out in San Diego, the franchise intends to move forward and partner with the Oakland Raiders on a $1.7 billion stadium proposal in Carson.