Resolution - 8179RESOLUTION NO. 8179
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA AUTHORIZING PAYMENT
OF GENERAL AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE CASE OF WILLIAM MC ALPIN v.
CITY OF WEST COVINA, et al.
WHEREAS, certain present and former officers and employees
of the Police Department of the City of West Covina, viz, Officers Terry
• Smith and Keith Ehlers, have been names.as defendants in an action presently
pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court, entitled William Mc Alpin
v. City of West Covina, et al., Case No. EAC 47139; and
• WHEREAS, the Complaint in the aforementioned action seeks
both general and punitive damages from each of the said employees; and
WHEREAS, all of the acts or omissions attributed to each
of the said employees by the said Complaint occurred when the said employee
was acting within the course and scope of his or her employment as an
employee of the City of West Covina; and
WHEREAS, at the time of each of the said acts or omissions,
the said employee acted, or failed to act in good faith, without actual
malice and in the apparent best interest of the City of West Covina;
and
WHEREAS, payment in full, of any judgment for damages, including
punitive damages, awarded against any of these employees, in the said
action, would be in the best interest of the City of West Covina;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina
does resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. Based on the aforesaid findings, determinations
and declarations, the City Council of the City of West Covina hereby
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 said action.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Resolution.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 25th day of April
1988.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted
by the City Council of the City of West Covina at a regular meeting
thereof, held on the 25th day of April 1988, by the following
vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS Tarozzi, McFadden, Lewis, Bacon, Manners
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS None ,
U/ CIT CLERK
• APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY