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t o R o� MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
DATE: July 23, 2020
RE: Virtual City Commission Meeting — July 23, 2020
Virtual Attorney -Client Session regarding the pending litigation in the
matter of 3384 Day Avenue Investments, Inc. vs. City of Miami
Case No. 2019 -23993 -CA -11
File No.: 7657
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the virtual meeting of July 9,
2020, the below -listed virtual Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the virtual City
Commission Meeting to be held on July 23, 2020.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, and the
Governor's Executive Orders 20-69 and 20-150, a virtual private attorney-client session
will be conducted at the July 23, 2020 Virtual Miami City Commission meeting. The
person chairing the City of Miami Commission meeting will announce the
commencement of a virtual attorney-client session, closed to the public, for purposes of
discussing the pending litigation in the matter of 3384 Day Avenue Investments, Inc. vs
City of Miami, Case No. 2019 -23993 -CA -11, pending in the Circuit Court for the 11 th
Judicial Circuit in and for Miami -Dade County to which the City is presently a party. The
subject of the meeting will be confined to settlement negotiations or strategy sessions
related to litigation expenditures. This private meeting will begin at approximately 10:00
a.m. (or as soon thereafter as the Commissioners' schedules permit) and conclude
approximately one hour later. The session will be attended by the members of the City
Commission, which include Chairman Keon Hardemon, Vice -Chairman Ken Russell,
and Commissioners Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Joe Carollo, and Manolo Reyes; City
Manager Art Noriega, V; City Attorney Victoria Mendez; Deputy City Attorneys John A.
Greco and Barnaby L. Min; Senior Assistant City Attorneys Kerri L. McNulty and Rachel
S. Glorioso Dooley; and Assistant City Attorney Daniel S. Goldberg. A certified court
reporter will be present to ensure that the session is fully transcribed and the transcript
will be made public upon the conclusion of the above-cited, ongoing litigation. At the
conclusion of the attorney-client session, the regular commission meeting will be
reopened and the person chairing the commission meeting will announce the
termination of the attorney-client session."
i ria ndez,'City Attor iey 7/13/2020