SAN DIEGO -- Mayor Kevin Faulconer hoped to breathe new life into his city's last-ditch effort to keep the San Diego Chargers, with NFL executive Eric Grubman and a contingent of league representatives in San Diego to hear first-hand Faulconer's pitch to keep the team.

And after a meeting that lasted a little more than three hours on Tuesday, Faulconer believes he accomplished his goal.

"Mr. Grubman and his NFL colleagues were engaged," Faulconer said. "I think they received the presentation very well. We all left looking forward to the NFL owners meeting in just a couple weeks."

Faulconer said representatives from the NFL asked about the city's expedited environmental review process and how the city would move forward in negotiating a financial agreement with the team, along with a timetable for moving forward with a public vote in order to get a stadium approved by the league-mandated January deadline.

Faulconer said he emphasized that the city will complete a full-blown, thoroughly drafted environmental impact report on the $1.1 billion stadium proposal at the Mission Valley site that houses Qualcomm Stadium.

Faulconer said the environmental review is on schedule, with the first drafted expected to be released for public comment Aug. 10. An updated draft will be presented to the city council in October.

According to Grubman, the city presented a public/private financing outline requiring very significant funding from the NFL and Chargers' sources.

Under the plan put forth by the mayor-appointed, citizens' stadium advisory group, the Chargers would be responsible for committing $300 million to the project, with the NFL committing $200 million and the city and county each contributing $121 million.

The proposal also includes $173 million in bonds secured by future rent from the Chargers and a projected $231 million would come from personal seat licenses and ticket and parking surcharges

However, Faulconer told reporters that the city will not have a term sheet or a financial agreement that it would present to voters for approval until a negotiation with the Chargers.

"I will not support placing a measure on the ballot if we don't have an agreement with the team," Faulconer said. "Under the NFL schedule as you know, time is ticking to reach that deal, but the clock has not ran out yet. The game is not over."

In a meeting with the mayor-appointed, citizens' stadium advisory group in April, Grubman said afterwards that a viable plan that the Chargers were enthusiastic about was needed.

Three months later, Grubman said Tuesday's meeting was productive.

"Both meetings were informative," Grubman said via email. "I can characterize this recent meeting as also being productive, simply because it was oriented towards the outline of a proposal which has the active backing of the Mayor. We know where they are trying to get to."

After the meeting, Grubman got on a plane headed to Oakland to meet with local officials there for an update on efforts to get a new stadium built for the Raiders.

Faulconer said the group also discussed the Aug. 10 meeting in Chicago, when a contingent of San Diego officials will make a 45-minute presentation to the NFL owners committee on Los Angeles opportunities.

"It's important," Faulconer said. "We're committed here in San Diego. We've met every objective and milestone. Today was our opportunity to say that to the NFL directly. They were engaged."

Faulconer said the downtown site preferred by the Chargers was not discussed during the meeting.

Faulconer also announced that California state assembly speaker Toni Atkins, a San Diego native, attended the meeting, voicing her support for getting a stadium project done for the Chargers in this city.

An important roadblock for Faulconer remains the Chargers not returning to the negotiating table because the team still does not believe the expedited environmental review will hold up to the legal scrutiny of potential lawsuits. Further, the team continues to have concerns that local voters will not approve hundreds of millions of dollars from the city and county's general fund to help pay for the project.

San Diego city attorney Jan Goldsmith said he's hopeful the Chargers will return to the negotiation table after the team's meeting with NFL owners in August.

"We need them back to the negotiation table after Aug. 11," Goldsmith said. "And we need to negotiate a term sheet by the middle of September, or there won't be a vote. So the ball's in their court."