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OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Victoria Mendez, City Attorney ,
DATE: January 11, 2018
RE: City Commission Meeting — January 11, 2018
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 3.00 p.m. regarding the litigation
case Liebman, et al., vs. City of Miami.
Case No. 17-13687 CA 44
File No.- 3441
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of December 14,
2017, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the January 11, 2018,
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 January 11, 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 Liebman, et al., vs. City of
Miami, Case No. 17-13687 CA 44, 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 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 General Litigation Christopher A. Green; and
Assistant City Attorney Forrest L. Andrews. 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
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