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OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor and MernCommission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
DATE: October 31, 2014
RE: City Commission Meeting — November 20, 2014
Executive Session scheduled for 2:00 p.m.
File No. 14-01094
Pursuant to my request at the City Commission Meeting of October 23, 2014, please
schedule the below -listed 'Executive Session for the November 20, 2014, City Commission
Meeting at 2:00 p.m.
Under the parameters of Florida Statutes §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: Southern
Waste Systems, LLC vs. City of Miami, Case No. 13-00619 CA 02, 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 permit) and conclude approximately one hour
later. The session will be attended by the members of the City Commission: Chairman
Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Keon Hardemon, Marc David Samoff, Frank Carollo, and Francis
Suarez; the City Manager, Daniel J. Alfonso; the City Attorney, Victoria Mendez; Deputy City
Attorneys John A. Greco and Barnaby L. Min; Litigation Division Chief Kevin L. Jones; and
Senior Assistant City Attorney Henry J. Hunnefeld. 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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