HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemoCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Pedro G. Hernandez, City Manager
Elvi Gallastegui, Agenda Coordinatox_e__
FROM: Julie O. Bru, City Attorney,,
DATE: March 3, 2009
RE: City Commission Meeting-MarchJ2, 2009
Executive Session scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission Meeting, of February 26, 2009, please
schedule the below -listed Executive Session for the March 12, 2009 City Commission Meeting
at2:30p.m.
Under the parameters of F.S. §286.011(8) , the person chairing the City of Miami
Commission meeting will announce the commencement of an attorney -client session, closed to
the public, for purposes of discussing the pending litigation case of MIGUEL GUTIERREZ ,
as Parent and Personal Representative of the Estate of SUSANA GUTIERREZ v. City of
Miami, Case No.: 06-01722 CA 09, pending in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial
Circuit in and for Miami -Dade County, Florida, to which the City is presently a party. This
private meeting will begin at approximately 2:30 p.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: Chairman Joe Sanchez, Angel
Gonzalez, Marc Sarnoff, Tomas Regalado, and Michelle Spence -Jones; the City Manager,
Pedro G. Hernandez; the City Attorney, Julie O. Bru; and Deputy City Attorney, Warren
Bittner. 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.
c: Priscilla A. Thompson, City Clerk
Todd Hannon, Legislative Services Supervisor
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