HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: George K. Wysong Ill, City Attorney 767_
DATE: March 25, 2021
RE: Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 10:00 a.m. regarding the matters of
Chalks Airline, Inc. v. City of Miami, Case Number 17-023207-CA-01, and
Chalks Airline, Inc. and Nautilus Enterprises, LLC v. Miami Sports and
Exhibition Authority and City of Miami, Case Number 18-030887-CA-01,
both pending in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in and for Miami -Dade
County.
File No.: 8770
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of March 11,
2021, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the March 25, 2021 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 March 11, 2021 Miami City Commission
meeting. The person presiding over the City Commission meeting will announce the
commencement of an attorney -client session, closed to the public, for purposes of
discussing the pending litigation in the matters of Chalks Airline, Inc. v. City of Miami,
Case Number 17-023207-CA-01, and Chalks Airline, Inc. and Nautilus Enterprises, LLC
v. Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority and City of Miami, Case Number 18-030887-
CA-01, both pending in the Eleventh 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 Vice -
Chairman Ken Russell and Commissioners Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Joe Carollo, Manolo
Reyes, and Jeffrey Watson; City Manager Art Noriega, V; City Attorney Victoria
Mendez; Deputy City Attorneys John A. Greco and Barnaby L. Min; and Senior
Assistant City Attorneys Christopher A. Green, George K. Wysong III, and Kerri L.
McNulty. 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 City
Commission meeting will be reopened and the person presiding over the City
Commission meeting will announce the termination of the attorney -client session."
cc: Art Noriega, V, City Manager
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
Miriam Santana, Agenda Coordinator
VM/BLM/CAG
ndez, City Attor ey 3/16/2021