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Yonkers City Council approves $375,000 settlement in John Massario CVA case
Summary
The council unanimously approved a $375,000 settlement in a civil case involving alleged personal injuries from 1978 at School 10; members referenced the state’s statute-of-limitations changes as a factor.
The Yonkers City Council on Tuesday approved a $375,000 settlement in the civil case captioned John Massario, CVA case, resolving allegations of personal injuries said to have occurred at School 10 in 1978.
The resolution, introduced by the administration and recommended by corporation counsel, was discussed briefly by council members. Minority Leader Breen said he would support the settlement “because it is from corporation counsel and we have to make the best of a bad situation,” while criticizing the state legislature’s extension of statutes of limitations that allowed such decades-old claims to proceed.
The deputy clerk recorded the vote as adopted 7 to 0. The council did not attach conditions to the settlement in the meeting record, and no council member proposed an amendment to the resolution during the discussion. The transcript states the incident alleged in the complaint occurred in 1978; the council noted that state-level changes to filing deadlines made the suit possible decades later.
The action authorizes payment of the stated amount as a settlement; the transcript does not specify the city fund source for the payment or follow-up administrative steps in the meeting record.
