8.	Acquisitions and Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures with Noncontrolling Owners’ Interests

On December 30, 2013, the Company and Richard Buenting revised the Second Amended and Restated Operating Agreement entered into on April 27, 2012 and their Management Agreement entered into on February 1, 2012. The Third Amended and Restated Operating Agreement and the amended Management Agreement eliminated the buy/sell option and instead included the obligation for the Company to purchase Mr. Buenting’s interest upon his death or permanent disability for $20 million or $18 million, respectively. In the event of Mr. Buenting’s death or permanent disability, his estate representative, trustee or designee shall become the selling representative and sell his 50% interest to the Company. In order to fund the purchase of Mr. Buenting’s interest, the Company has purchased term life insurance with a payout of $20 million in the event of Mr. Buenting’s death. The Company will be the beneficiary and will also pay the premiums related to this life insurance contract. The life insurance proceeds of $20 million shall be used as full payment for Mr. Buenting’s interest in the occurrence of his death. On June 2, 2015, the Company purchased an insurance policy with a five-year term on Mr. Buenting that provides a lump sum disability benefit in the principal sum of $20 million. In the event of Mr. Buenting’s permanent total disability, the principal sum becomes payable to the Company, and in turn the Company is obligated to use the proceeds of the policy to purchase Mr. Buenting’s 50% member’s interest in RHB in accordance with the terms of the amended agreements. No other transfer of member’s interest is permitted other than to the selling representative in the event of Mr. Buenting’s death or permanent disability. In the event that Mr. Buenting resigns his 50% interest in RHB or is terminated without cause (i.e., termination other than through cause, permanent disability or death), RHB shall be dissolved unless both members agree otherwise. The amended agreements were entered into in order to eliminate the earnings-per-share volatility caused by the buy/sell option.

The amended agreements resulted in an obligation to purchase Mr. Buenting’s 50% member’s interest that the Company is certain to incur, either because of Mr. Buenting’s permanent disability or death; therefore, the Company has classified the noncontrolling interest as mandatorily redeemable and has recorded a liability in “Member’s interest subject to mandatory redemption and undistributed earnings” on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The liability consists of the following (amounts in thousands):

	September 30, 2015			December 31, 2014

Member’s interest subject to mandatory redemption	$	20,000		$	20,000
Accumulated undistributed earnings attributable to this interest		6,892			6,079
Earnings distributed		(5,114	)		(3,200	)
Total liability	$	21,778		$	22,879

Due to the amended agreements and the accounting classification, Mr. Buenting’s 50% member’s interest, or undistributed earnings, is included in “Other operating (expense) income, net” on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations. Undistributed earnings attributable to this interest increased $1.5 million and $0.8 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively, and undistributed earnings increased by $0.5 million and $2.0 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively.

Changes in Noncontrolling Interests

The following table summarizes the changes in the noncontrolling owners’ interests in subsidiaries (amounts in thousands):

	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2015			2014

Balance, beginning of period	$	7,462		$	4,097
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest included in equity		2,948			3,238
Distributions to noncontrolling interest owners		(3,402	)		(1,190	)
Balance, end of period	$	7,008		$	6,145

The “Noncontrolling owners’ interest in earnings of subsidiaries” for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, shown in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of operations, was $1.1 million and $2.9 million, respectively, and $1.7 million and $3.2 million, respectively, which the Company includes in “Equity”, “Noncontrolling interests” in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. There was a distribution of $1.0 million and $3.4 million to certain noncontrolling interest members during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and there were no distributions and distributions of $1.2 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively.

Noncontrolling Interests’ – Call Options

During the nine months ended September 30, 2015, the Company entered into two agreements, one with RHB and one with Myers, which gives the 50% owners of these entities the option to buy the Company’s 50% interest in these entities for $1.00 should the Company ever become subject to the repossession or disposition of its collateral as defined in the Company’s new debt agreement with Nations or if the Company dissolves or becomes insolvent. Based on these agreements, the Company does not believe that it is likely that the exercise of these options would ever transpire; therefore, there has been no value placed on these options which resulted in no impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements. Refer to Note 12 for more information about the debt agreement with Nations.

Earn-out Agreement

In connection with the August 1, 2011, acquisition of JBC by Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction Company, LLC (“RLW”), RLW agreed to additional purchase price payments of up to $5 million to be paid over a five-year period. The additional purchase price is in the form of an earn-out and is classified as a Level 3 fair value measurement. In making this valuation, the unobservable input consisted of forecasted EBITDA for the periods after the period being reported on through July 31, 2016. The additional purchase price is calculated generally as 50% of the amount by which EBITDA exceeds $2.0 million for each of the calendar years 2011 through 2015 and $1.2 million for the seven months ended July 31, 2016.

On January 23, 2014, RLW, the former owner of JBC and the Company agreed to amend the above mentioned earn-out agreement in order to reduce the Company’s recorded liability at that time, while providing the former owner, who at the time was the chief executive officer of JBC, a greater incentive to meet earnings benchmarks. The amendment resulted in a reduction of $0.6 million in the Company’s earn-out liability, thereby reducing the total earn-out liability to $1.4 million on December 31, 2013. As part of the amendment, a payment of $0.8 million was made during the first quarter of 2014. The amendment increased the total available earn-out from $5.0 million to $10.0 million if certain EBITDA benchmarks are met. The amendment extended the earn-out period through December 31, 2017 and reduced the benchmark EBITDA for 2014 and 2015 to $1.5 million and increased it to $2.0 million in 2016 and 2017. This earn-out liability continues to be classified as a Level 3 fair value measurement and the unobservable inputs continue to be the forecasted EBITDA for the periods after the period being reported on through December 31, 2017. There was no yearly excess forecasted EBITDA in our calculation at September 30, 2015 of the minimum EBITDA benchmarks for the years 2015 through 2017. The discounted present value of the additional purchase price was estimated to be $0.3 million as of September 30, 2014 which included a revaluation benefit of $0.3 million recorded in interest income on the condensed consolidated statement of operations. The undiscounted earn-out liability as of September 30, 2015 is estimated at zero and could increase by $9.3 million if EBITDA during the earn-out period increases $18.5 million or more and could decrease by the full amount of the liability for the year if EBITDA does not exceed the minimum threshold for that year. Each year is considered a discrete earnings period and future losses by JBC, if any, would not reduce the Company’s liability in years in which JBC has exceeded its earnings benchmark. Any significant increase or decrease in actual EBITDA compared to the forecasted amounts would result in a significantly higher or lower fair value measurement of the additional purchase price. This liability is included in other long-term liabilities on the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. As part of recording the present value of this liability, the Company incurs accreted interest expense for the passage of time until the time of settlement. The Company incurred accreted interest expense of zero and $0.3 million for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2014, respectively. As part of the updated EBITDA forecast, the Company reduced its liability to zero and recorded interest income of $0.3 million in the first quarter of 2015. There has been no change in the value of this liability; therefore, the interest income was zero and $0.3 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, respectively.