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CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING AND ATTORNEY/CLIENT
SESSION
Please take notice that there will be a special meeting of the City Commission for the City
of South Miami and a non-public attorney-client session to be held pursuant to Section 286.011(8),
Fla. Stat. to discuss City of South Miami, et al. vs. Carlos Rodriguez Case No. 13-12254 Sec. 15.
The attorney-client session will be held on February 6, 2018, at 6:00 p.m., at City Hall,
6130 Sunset Drive, South Miami, Florida, 33143 after the temporary adjournment of the special
meeting being called for the purpose of this attorney/client session. The attorney-client session
will begin at 6:00 p.m. The names of the persons attending the attorney-client session are Mayor
Philip Stoddard, Vice-Mayor Bob Welsh, Commissioner Gabriel Edmond, Commissioner Walter
Harris, Commissioner Josh Liebman, City Manager Steven Alexander, City Attorney Thomas F.
Pepe, and Orange Legal (court reporter).
The subject matter of the meeting shall be confined to settlement negotiations or strategy
sessions related to litigation expenditures. The entire session shall be recorded by a certified court
reporter who will record the times of commencement and termination of the session, all discussion
and proceedings, the names of all persons present at any time, and the names of all persons
speaking. No portion of the session shall be off the record. The court reporter's notes shall be fully
transcribed and filed with the City Clerk within a reasonable time after the meeting, but the
transcript shall not be open to public inspection until after the conclusion of the litigation.
The session will commence at an open meeting at which the Mayor will announce the
commencement and estimated length of the attorney/client session and the names of the persons
attending and then the meeting will be temporarily adjourned until the close of the attorney/client
session. At the conclusion of the attorney-client session, the meeting will be reopened, and the
Mayor will announce the termination of the session and of the meeting.
Maria M. Menendez, CMC
City Clerk
City of South Miami