HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemorandumCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney ,
DATE: February 8, 2018
RE: City Commission Meeting — February 8, 2018
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 10:00 a.m. regarding the litigation
case Yvette Styles, et al. vs. City of Miami, et al.
Case No. 17-22967 CA 09
File No.: 3627
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of January 25,
2018, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the February 8, 2018,
City Commission Meeting at 2:00 p.m.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, a private
attorney-client session will be conducted at the February 8, 2018, 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 case of Yvette Styles, et al. vs. City
of Miami, et al., Case No. 17-22967 CA 09, 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 2:00
p.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 Keon Hardemon, Vice -Chairman Ken Russell,
Commissioners Wifredo "Willy" Gort, Joe Carollo, and Manolo Reyes; City Manager
Emilio T. Gonzalez; City Attorney Victoria Mendez; Deputy City Attorneys Barnaby L.
Min and John A. Greco; Division Chief for General Litigation Christopher A. Green; and
Senior Assistant City Attorney Henry J. Hunnefeld. 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
Anna Medina, Agenda Coordinator
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