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OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor and Me gibers of lne City Co m fission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
DATE: November 25, 2014, 2014
RE: City Commission Meeting — December 11, 2014
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
File No. 14-01233
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of November 20, 2014,
please schedule the below -listed Attorney -Client Session for the December 11, 2014, City
Commission Meeting at 2:00 p.m.
Under the parameters of F.S. §286.011(8), F.S. [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: Fraternal Order
of Police, Miami Lodge No. 20, and Alfredo Vega, and Federica Burden, Raymond Carvil,
Raynoard Gilbert, Julius Nelson, Dwayne Pratt, and Willie Smith. vs. City of Miami, Case No.
98-7760-CA-27, 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 2:00 p.m. (or as soon thereafter as the Commissioners' schedules
pennit) and conclude approximately one hour later. The session will be attended by the
members of the City Commission: Chairman Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Vice Chairman Keon
Hardemon, Commissioner Marc David Sarloff, Commissioner Frank Carollo, and
Commissioner Francis Suarez; City Manager, Daniel J; Alfonso; City Attorney, Victoria
Mendez; Deputy City Attorneys John A. Greco and Barnaby L. Min; Litigation Division Chief
Kevin R. Jones; and Assistant City Attorney Kerri L. McNulty. 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.
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Attachment(s)
cc: Daniel J. Alfonso, City Manager
Julia D. Hernandez, Agenda Coordinator
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