HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Office of the City AttorneyCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Membe s of t e C mal ion
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorne
DATE: December 14, 2015
RE:
Attorney -Client Session - City Commission Meeting — January 14, 2016
City of Miami v. Miami -Dade County Commission on Human Rights, et.
al., Case No. 11-14989 CA 04.
File No. 15-01629a
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of December 10, 2015,
the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the January 14, 2016 City
Commission Meeting at 2:00 p.m.
Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, 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 City of
Miami v. Miami -Dade County Commission on Human Rights, et. al., Case No. 11-14989 CA
04, pending in the Circuit Court of the 11t11 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.rn. (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 Keon Hardemon, Vice -Chairman Ken Russell, and
Commissioners Wifredo "Willy" Gort, 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; Division Chief Kevin R. Jones; and Assistant City Attorneys Kerri L.
McNulty and Stephanie K. Panoff. 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.
VM/B-IKRJ/SKP/vj a
cc: Daniel J. Alfonso, City Manager
Anna Medina, Agenda Coordinator
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk