HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 91-C075RESOLUTION NO. 91-C75
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF
GENERAL AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT
OF PARRA V. CITY OF AZUSA, ET AL.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES HEREBY
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Azusa
does hereby find, determine and declare that:
A. Certain present police officers and employees
of the City of Azusa, Douglas Ernst and Dewayne
Eldridge, have been named as defendants in an
action presently pending in the Los Angeles
Superior Court, entitled Parra v. City of Azusa. et
al., Case No. KC 002324; and
B. The Complaint in the aforementioned actions
seeks both general and punitive damages from each
of these employees; and
C. All of said employees have agreed to cooperate
in good faith with the City in the defense of this
action; and
D. All of the acts or omissions attributed to
each of these employees by the Complaint occurred
when the employee was acting within the course and
scope of his employment as an employee of the City
of Azusa; and
E. At the time of each of the alleged acts or
omissions, these employees acted, or failed to act,
in good faith, without actual malice and in the
apparent best interests of the City of Azusa; and
F. Payment in full, of any judgment for damages,
including punitive damages, awarded against any of
these employees, in the above -captioned civil
action, would be in the best interests of the City
of Azusa.
SECTION 2. Based on the aforesaid findings,
determinations and declarations, the City Council of the
City of Azusa hereby authorizes defending the above-named
employees and further authorizes the payment, in full, of
any damages, including punitive damages, which may be
awarded against any of the above-named employees, as
defendants in the civil action pursuant to the authority of
Government Code Section 825. As such, the named employees
shall be entitled to rely upon this Resolution in regard to
their defense of the action.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify the
adoption of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 1st day of
July 1 19 91
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was
duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 1st day of
July , 19 by the following vote of the
Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS DANGLEIS, STEMRICH, NARANJO, ALEXANDER,
MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS NONE
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