HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: George K. Wysong III, City Attorney `'�"
DATE: July 11, 2024
RE: Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 10:00 a.m. regarding the matters of
Robert Gusman, Bruce Gusman and Jackie Gusman Thayer as
Successor Trustees of the real property of Maurice Gusman Cultural
Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., a dissolved Florida not for profit
corporation, v. City of Miami, Case No. 22-23242 CA 01, pending in the
Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami -Dade
County, Florida, and Maurice Gusman Cultural Center For The Performing
Arts, Inc., a dissolved Florida not for profit corporation, v. City Of Miami,
Case No. 3D23-1842, pending in the District Court Of Appeal of the State
of Florida, Third District.
File No.: 16268
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the Special City Commission
meeting of June 18, 2024, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the
July 11, 2024 City Commission Meeting at 10:00 a.m.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, a private
attorney -client session will be conducted at the July 11, 2024, Miami City Commission
meeting. The person chairing the City Commission meeting will announce the
commencement of an attorney -client session, closed to the public, for purposes of
discussing the pending litigation in the matters of Robert Gusman, Bruce Gusman and
Jackie Gusman Thayer as Successor Trustees of the real property of Maurice Gusman
Cultural Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., a dissolved Florida not for profit
corporation, v. City of Miami, Case No. 22-23242 CA 01, pending in the Circuit Court of
the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami -Dade County, Florida, and Maurice
Gusman Cultural Center For The Performing Arts, Inc., a dissolved Florida not for profit
corporation, v. City Of Miami, Case No. 3D23-1842, pending in the District Court Of
Appeal of the State of Florida, Third District, 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 the Chairwoman Christine King, Vice -Chairman Joe Carollo,
Commissioners Miguel Angel Gabela, Damian Pardo, and Manolo Reyes; the City
Manager, Arthur Noriega, V; the City Attorney, George K. Wysong III; Chief Deputy City
Attorney John A. Greco; Deputy City Attorney Kevin R. Jones, and Assistant City
Attorneys Eric J. Eves and Marguerite C. Snyder. 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 City Commission meeting will be reopened and
the person presiding over the City Commission meeting will announce the termination of
the attorney -client session."
cc: Art Noriega, V, City Manager
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
Miriam Santana, Agenda Coordinator
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