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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: February 14, 2019 =;
RE: City Commission Meeting — February 14, 2019
Attorney -Client Session scheduled for 10:00 a.m. regarding the matter of
Airbnb, Inc., et al. v. City of Miami
Case No. 17-008999 CA 01
File No. 5480
Pursuant to my request to the City Commission at the meeting of January 24,
2019, the below -listed Attorney -Client Session is scheduled for the February 14, 2019
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 February 14, 2019 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 case of Airbnb, Inc. et al. v. City of Miami,
Case No. 2017-008999 CA 01, pending in the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in
and for Miami -Dade County, Florida, 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 Ken Russell, Vice -Chairman Wifredo "Willy" Gort,
and Commissioners Joe Carollo, Manolo Reyes, and Keon Hardemon; City Manager
Emilio T. Gonzalez; 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 Rachel Dooley. 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
Miriam M. Arcia, Agenda Coordinator
VM/BLM/CAG
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