R9K-Motion To Approve Closed Attorney Client Session Held On April 23 2014MIAMIBEACH
City of Miqmi Beoch, I200 Conveniion Center Drive, Miomi Beoch, Florido 33139, www.miomibeochfl.gov
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor Philip Levine and Members of the City Commission
FRoM: Raul J. Aguila, city AttornS!-a[, A*tl-
DATE: September 10,2014
SUBJECT: Motion to Approve the Recommendation of the Mayor and City Commissioners from
the Closed Attorney-Client Session held on April 23,2014 (ltem R10B).
At the beginning of the April 23, 2014, City Commission meeting, the City Attorney
announced that there would be a closed attorney-client session during the lunch recess,
in connection with the pending litigation styled, City of Miami Beach, Florida Y,
Hargreave.s Associates, lnc., et at., Cise No.: 10-61979 CA 40, Circuit Court in the 1lth
Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.
During the lunch recess, the closed attorney-client session was held. The Mayor and
City Commission were advised by the City Attorney, the City Manager and litigation
counsel of the mediated settlement agreements which were negotiated, subject to final
Commission approval and ratification, during the April 11, 2014, Court-ordered
mediation conference. Thereafter, a discussion proceeded regarding resolving certain
design issues only, in connection with the water feature, pylon lights, irrigation and sod
(partial).
The claims to be resolved, and parties to be released, are as follows: (1) as to the water
feature, Dan Euser Waterarchitecture, lnc. and Hargreaves Associates, lnc.; (2) as to
the pylon lights, LAM Partners, lnc., William Abarca, P.E., Hargreaves Associates, lnc.,
Horacio A. Rodriguez, P.E. and Johnson, Avedano, Lopez, Rodriguez; & Walewski
Engineering Group, lnc.; (3) as to the irrigation, Kenneth Didonato, Kenneth Didonato,
lnc. and Hargreaves Associates, lnc.; and (4) as to the sod (partial), Savino & Miller
Design Studio, P.A.
ln order to finalize the closed attorney-client session discussions and ratify the
negotiated settlement agreements, from the April 23, 2014 Attorney-Client Session, a
motion to approve the recommendation of the Mayor and City Commission must be
voted on at a duly noticed City Commission meeting.
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