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: October 26, 2017
RE: City Commission Meeting — October 26, 2017
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 3:00 p.m. regarding litigation cases
involving Flagstone Island Gardens, LLC and Flagstone Development
Corp.
File No.: 3095
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of October 12,
2017, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the October 26, 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 October 26, 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 matter of Flagstone Island Gardens,
LLC and Flagstone Development Corp. v. City of Miami, Case No. 17-13829 CA 44,
pending in the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in and for Miami -Dade County, 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, and Commissioners Wifredo
"Willy" Gort, Frank Carollo, and Francis X. Suarez; Gonzalo Dorta, Esq.; Matias Dorta,
Esq.; and Laura Besvinick, 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
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/CAG
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