 Just a day before the Extraordinary General Meetings in both companies, Arriva submitted an indicative bid of NOK 380-400 million and the representative of Bergen's cabinet, Henning Warloe, voted "against" the merger at Gaia's general meeting on June 29.As this was against the city council's resolution a motion of no confidence was proposed.This motion failed on November 20, 2006 A new general meeting was called for Gaia and on July 17, the merger was approved in that company as well.