HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
DATE: September 28, 2017
RE:
City Commission Meeting — September 14, 2017
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 3:00 p.m. regarding litigation cases
involving Marine Stadium.
File No. 2850
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of July 27, 2017,
the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the September 14, 2017 City
Commission Meeting at 3:00 p.m.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, a private
attorney -client session will be conducted at the September 14, 2017, Miami City
Commission meeting. 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 in the case of Village of Key Biscayne v.
City of Miami, Case No. 15-02997 CA 09, 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 3:00
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, which include Chairman Keon Hardemon, Vice -Chairman Ken Russell,
Commissioners Wifredo "Willy" Gort, Frank Carollo and Francis X. Suarez; the City
Manager, Daniel J. Alfonso; the City Attorney, Victoria Mendez; Deputy City Attorneys
John A. Greco and Barnaby L. Min; Division Chief for Land Use/Transactions Rafael
Suarez -Rivas; and Assistant City Attorneys Kerri L. Mcnulty and Forrest L. Andrews. 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."
cc: Daniel J. Alfonso, City Manager
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
Anna Medina, Agenda Coordinator
VM/BLM/JAG/KLM