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File #: TMP-0690    Version: 2
Type: Resolution Status: Referred
File created: 4/3/2026 In control: City Council of Yonkers Stated Meeting
On agenda: 4/14/2026 Final action:
Title: SETTLEMENT RESOLUTION – $25,000.00 - ELENA BENNETT-GOULET V. CITY OF YONKERS AND GIANCARLOS CASTRILLON – CLAIMANT ALLEGEDLY SUFFERED PERSONAL INJURIES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT ON MAY 22, 2024 INVOLVING A YONKERS POLICE DEPARTMENT UNIT ON YONKERS AVENUE UNDERNEATH THE CROSS COUNTY PARKWAY OVERPASS. (FISCAL IMPACT – AMOUNT OF SETTLEMENT.) (ALL COUNCILMEMBERS.)

RESOLUTION

 

BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP ROBINSON, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS PINEDA-ISAAC, DIAZ, AND HODGES:

 

RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Yonkers, in meeting assembled:

 

That the settlement by the Corporation Counsel in the amount of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000.00) of the action entitled, "ELENA BENNETT-GOULET, Plaintiff”, against “CITY OF YONKERS and GIANCARLOS CASTRILLON, Defendants", alleging personal injuries and property damages as a result of a motor vehicle accident on May 22, 2024, involving a Yonkers Police Department unit on Yonkers Avenue underneath the Cross County Parkway overpass in Yonkers, New York, be and the same hereby is approved and the Comptroller of the City of Yonkers is directed to draw his warrant in the amount of TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000.00) in favor of Cheriff & Fink, P.C. as attorney for ELENA BENNETT-GOULET.