HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Office of the City AttorneyCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor and Me the Cit ommission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney,,,t
DATE: December 16, 2013
RE: City Commission Meeting — January 9, 2014
Executive Session scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
File No. 13-01431
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at its meeting of December 12, 2013,
please schedule the below -listed Executive Session for the January 9, 2014, City Commission
Meeting at 2:00 p.m.
Under the parameters of F.S. §286.011(8) [2013], 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: Michael Pottinger, et al.
vs. City of Miami, Case No.: 88-2406-CIV-MORENO, pending in the United States District
Court, Southern District of Florida, to which the City is presently a party. This private meeting
will begin at approximately 2:00 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 Marc Sarnoff, Frank Carollo, Wifredo Gort,
Francis Suarez, and Keon Hardemon; the City Manager, Johnny Martinez; the City Attorney,
Victoria Mendez; Deputy Emeritus, Warren Bittner; Thomas Scott, Esq., and Scott Cole, Esq.
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 Conunission meeting will announce the termination of the attorney -
client session.
Enclosure(s)
cc: Johnny Martinez, P.E., City Manager
Elvi Gallastegui, Agenda Coordinator
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