Case Name: Carl GRACE, a minor, By and Through his grandmother and next friend, Lessie WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-10-05
Citations: 661 So. 2d 1232
Docket Number: No. 93-2226
Parties: Carl GRACE, a minor, By and Through his grandmother and next friend, Lessie WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART, BASKIN and GREEN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 661
Pages: 1232–1234

Head Matter:
Carl GRACE, a minor, By and Through his grandmother and next friend, Lessie WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
No. 93-2226.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Oct. 5, 1995.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 8, 1995.
Paul W. Humbert, for appellant.
A. Quinn Jones, III, City Attorney, and Kathryn S. Pecko and Leon M. Firtel, Assistant City Attorneys, for appellee.
Before HUBBART, BASKIN and GREEN, JJ.

Opinion:
BASKIN, Judge.
We reverse the final summary judgment in favor of defendant, City of Miami [City] on a negligent supervision claim. Once the City undertakes to provide a lunch program for children at a city-owned park, it assumes the duty to operate the program safely. See Avallone v. Board of County Comm'r, 493 So.2d 1002 (Fla.1986) (when county undertakes to operate a swimming facility it must do so safely); City of Milton v. Broxson, 514 So.2d 1116 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987) (same; park), review dismissed, 537 So.2d 568 (Fla.1988); Comuntzis v. Pinellas County Sch. Bd., 508 So.2d 750 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987) (same; school). Whether it is foreseeable that a young child of plaintiffs age would attend a lunch program and require supervision is a question for the trier of fact. Therefore, we may not conclude that the City owed plaintiff no duty to provide supervision, and summary judgment on the issue of negligent supervision was error. See Avallone. Moreover, the record reveals that genuine issues of material fact remain unresolved regarding the operational conditions of the lunch program rendering disposition of this case by summary judgment inappropriate. Moore v. Morris, 475 So.2d 666 (Fla.1985).
We affirm the summary judgment on the negligent design claim, finding that the doctrine of sovereign immunity bars this claim. Trianon Park Condominium Ass'n, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 468 So.2d 912, 920 (Fla. 1985).
Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded for further proceedings.
Reversed and remanded.
GREEN, J., concurs.