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: April 12, 2018 �-
RE: City Commission Meeting - April 12, 2018
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.: 3914
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of March 22,
2018, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the April 12, 2018, 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 12, 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 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 t" 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 Keon
Hardemon, Vice -Chairman Ken Russell, and Commissioners Wifredo "Willy" Gort, Joe
Carollo, and Manolo Reyes; Gonzalo Dorta, Esq.; Matias Dorta, Esq.; and Laura
Besvinick, 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
Anna Medina, Agenda Coordinator
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