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: April 25, 2019
RE: City Commission Meeting — April 25, 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.: 5786
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of April 11, 2019,
the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the April 25, 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 April 25, 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. Santana, Agenda Coordinator
VM/BLM/CAG