private attorney-client session on Alvarez Soles litigation
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Feb 7, 2023
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Feb 7, 2023
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Machine transcription of 3m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 100% of 9 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
So County Attorney, we should go over the process for the
closed attorney
client session we have coming up.
Mr. Chairman, I desire the advice of the Board of County Commissioners concerning the case of Nikki Alvarez Soles, Clerk and Comptroller, Pasco County, Florida, versus Pasco County, case number 51-2021-CA-2635-CAA XES. Florida Circuit Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit. To discuss settlement negotiations and strategy related to litigation, and for that reason I request a
private attorney client meeting. If the board approves you should open the private attorney. Client meeting and announce the commencement of an estimated length the estimated length of the private attorney client meeting and the names of the persons attending. At the conclusion of the private attorney client meeting, the board's public meeting should be reconvened and you should announce the termination of the private attorney client meeting. The entire private attorney client meeting will be reported by a certified court reporter and the transcript thereof
will be made a public record upon conclusion of the litigation. I estimate that the attorney client meeting will last approximately 45 minutes. We have scheduled a certified court reporter to be in attendance in the Commissioner's Conference Room on the first floor for the private attorney-client meeting.
I hereby announce the commencement of a private attorney-client meeting at which the Board will discuss settlement negotiations and a strategy related to litigation expenses in the case of Nikki Alvarez Soles, Clerk and Comptroller Pasco County, Florida, versus Pasco County, case number 51-2021-CA- 2635-CAAXES Florida Circuit Sixth Judicial Circuit. The names of the persons expected to attend the private attorney
client meeting are Chairman Jack Mariano, Vice Chairman Ron Oakley, Commissioner Oakley Starkey, Gary Bradford, and Seth Weightman. The County Attorney Jeff Steinschneider and the County Attorney Mike Carbella. I just County Administrator. County Administrator, sorry. County Administrator, Mike Carbella. Outside Counsel Greg uh Gregory Stewart in a court reporter, the estimated length of the private attorney Client meeting is approximately forty-five minutes. The private attorney client meeting will now convene in the con commissioner's conference room.
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