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OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
i QA;o� MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney ,
DATE: December 14, 2017 J-41
RE: City Commission Meeting — December 14, 2017
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 3:00 p.m. regarding the case of
Headley v. City of Miami, PERC Case No.CR-2017-001, pending before
the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC)
File No. 3318
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of November 16,
2017, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the December 14, 2017
City Commission Meeting at 3:00 p.m.
"Under the parameters of Section 286.011(8), Florida Statutes, a private
attorney-client session will be conducted at the December 14, 2017 Miami City
Commission meeting. The person chairing the 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 Headley v. City of Miami, PERC Case
No.CR-2017-001, pending before the Public Employees Relations Commission (PERC),
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 3:00 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, and Commissioners Wifredo
"Willy" Gort, Joe Carollo, and Manolo Reyes; City Manager Daniel J. Alfonso; City
Attorney Victoria Mendez; Deputy City Attorneys John A. Greco and Barnaby L. Min;
Division Chief for Labor and Employment Kevin R. Jones; Assistant City Attorneys
Stephanie K. Panoff and Barbara Diaz; Luke Savage, Esq.; and Michael Mattimore,
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: Daniel J. Alfonso, City Manager
Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk
Anna Medina, Agenda Coordinator
VM/BLM/JAG
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