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: September 26, 2024
RE: Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 10:00 a.m. regarding the matters of
The Mad Room LLC d/b/a Ball and Chain, Altos Mexicano, LLC d/b/a
Taquerias El Mexicano, Little Havana Arts Building, LLC, and La Gran
Fiesta, LLC v. City of Miami, Case No. 21-CV-23485-RKA, pending in the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; Tower
Hotel, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company Piedra Villas, LLC, a
Florida Limited Liability Company, Beatstik, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability
Company El Shopping, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, and Yo
Amo Calle Siete, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. City of
Miami, Case No. 2022-008069-CA-44, pending in the Circuit Court of the
Eleventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami -Dade County, Florida, and
Tower Hotel, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company Piedra Villas, LLC,
a Florida Limited Liability Company, Beatstik, LLC, a Florida Limited
Liability Company El Shopping, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company,
and Yo Amo Calle Siete, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. City
of Miami, Case No. 3D23-285, pending in the District Court of Appeal of
the State of Florida, Third District.
File No.: 16672
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of September 12,
2024, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the September 26, 2024
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 September 26, 2024, Miami City Commission meeting.
The person chairing 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 The Mad Room LLC d/b/a Ball and Chain, Altos Mexicano,
LLC d/b/a Taquerias El Mexicano, Little Havana Arts Building, LLC, and La Gran Fiesta,
LLC v. City of Miami, Case No. 21-CV-23485-RKA, pending in the United States District
Court for the Southern District of Florida; Tower Hotel, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability
Company Piedra Villas, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, Beatstik, LLC, a
Florida Limited Liability Company El Shopping, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability
Company, and Yo Amo Calle Siete, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. City of
Miami, Case No. 2022-008069-CA-44, pending in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh
Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami -Dade County, Florida, and Tower Hotel, LLC, a Florida
Limited Liability Company Piedra Villas, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company,
Beatstik, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company El Shopping, LLC, a Florida Limited
Liability Company, and Yo Amo Calle Siete, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v.
City of Miami, Case No. 3D23-285, pending in the District Court of Appeal of the State
of Florida, Third District, 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 the Chairwoman Christine King, Vice -Chairman Joe Carollo,
Commissioners Miguel Angel Gabela, Manolo Reyes, and Damian Pardo; the City
Manager, Arthur Noriega, V; the City Attorney, George K. Wysong III; Chief Deputy City
Attorney John A. Greco; Deputy City Attorney Kevin R. Jones, Assistant City Attorneys
Eric Eves, and Marguerite Snyder, and City of Miami's Outside Counsel Raquel A.
Rodriguez Esq. and Angel A. Cortinas, 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 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
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