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'I . 9.18.1 SFM Services, Inc. 9.18.2 Corporation 9.18.3 Jose Infante, President 90% Stockholder Christian Infante, Vice President 10% Stockholder 9.18.4 Jose Infante is also president and majority stockholder of PM Security Service, Inc. A Florida corporation that provides unarmed security guard servIces. 9.19 NONE 9.20 NONE 9.21 LITIGATION HISTORY · A 2004 Contract to provide event cleaning services to the City of Miami's Orange Bowl Stadium, Bayfront Park and Coconut Grove Convention Center was awarded to SFM Services, Inc. At that time the Federal Minimum Wage was $5.15 per hour and the SFM's billing rate to the City was $9.90 per hour. · On April 29, 2005, the State of Florida Minimum Wage went into effect and SFM's hourly pay rate was raised accordingly from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour. The City of Miami purchasing department raised SFM's billing rate to the City to $11.13 per hour to accommodate the increase in SFM's hourly pay rate to its staff. · In October 2006, the City of Miami passed an ordinance to pay "living wages" of $11.83 per hour. SFM's staff anticipated this pay rate, and asked Glenn Marcos, City of Miami's Procurement Director about paying living wages, and he indicated that it did not apply to SFM's contract since it pre-dated the living wage ordinance. This question was presented to Mr. Marco's a second time due to pressure from our staff and the same answer was given as before: "no, it does not apply since your contract was executed before the living wage ordinance and living wage ordinance only applies to contracts executed after 10-01-06," · A class action lawsuit ensued against SFM Services, Inc. represented by Jose Rodriguez, Esquire on behalf of our employees and Florida Legal Services, Inc. On advice of my attorney, George McArdle, we joined the City of Miami as a third party defendant. · A subsequent meeting was held in Glenn Marco's office with my attorney present and Glenn admitted to having made the mistake of relying on a copy of the first reading of the living wage ordinance and that on the 2nd reading someone added the words "and to include contract renewals".