HomeMy WebLinkAboutCover MemoCITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Julie O. Bru, City Attorney vv,,)
DATE: February 23, 2009
RE: Proposed Settlement — City Commission Agenda — March 12, 2009
Miguel Gutierrez, as Parent and Personal Representative of the
Estate of Susana Gutierrez, v. City of Miami, Miami -Dade County
Circuit Court, Case No.: 06-01722 CA 09
(File No. 09-00172)
The attached proposed Resolution seeks authorization for the settlement of all claims
against the City of Miami asserted in the above -referenced lawsuit, and a release of all claims
against the City, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, officials, officers, agents, servants
and employees, in the amount of $165,000.
In this case, Plaintiff alleges negligence on the part of the MPD Mounted Unit in
allowing the decedent, City employee, Susana Gutierrez, then serving as the Chief of Staff to the
Executive Director of the CRA, to ride a Mounted Unit horse from which she fell and was killed.
Funds in the amount of $165,000 will be allocated from Account No.
05002.301001.515000.0000.00000.
WB
Attachment(s)
c. Pedro Hernandez, City Manager
Elvi Gallastegui, Agenda Coordinator
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