HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
RE:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
Victoria Mendez, City Attorney ?)
May 8, 2019
Special City Commission Meeting - May 8, 2019
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 9:00 a.m. regarding litigation cases
involving Flagstone Island Gardens, LLC and Flagstone Development
Corp.
Case No. 17-13829 CA 44
File No.: 5843
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of April 25, 2019,
the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the Special City Commission
Meeting to be held on May 8, 2019, at 9:00 a.m.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, a private
attorney -client session will be conducted at a Special Miami City Commission meeting
to be held May 8, 2019, at 9:00 a.m. 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 11 th 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 9:00 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 Wifredo "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
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