HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: George K. Wysong III, City Attorney 767_
DATE: January 24, 2019
RE: City Commission Meeting — January 24, 2019
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 10:00 a.m. regarding litigation
cases involving Flagstone Island Gardens, LLC and Flagstone
Development Corp.
Case No. 17-13829 CA 44
File No.: 5405
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of January 10,
2019, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the January 24, 2019,
City Commission Meeting at 10:00 a.m.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, a private
attorney -client session will be conducted at the January 24, 2019 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 10:00 a.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 Ken
Russell, Vice -Chairman Wfredo "Willy" Gort, and Commissioners Joe Carollo, Manolo Reyes,
and Keon Hardemon; City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez; Gonzalo Dorta, Esq.; Matias Dorta
Esq.; Laura Besvinick, Esq., and Julie Nevins, 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: Emilio T. Gonzalez, City Manager
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
Miriam M. Arcia, Agenda Coordinator
VM/BLM/CAG