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Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, 208 Conn. 161 (1988)

Citation
Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, 208 Conn. 161 (1988)
Parent Document
Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority, 208 Conn. 161 (1988)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1988-07-05

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Concerning the cooperation agreement, the plaintiff argues that signing the agreement was a discretion*182ary act but carrying out that agreement was a ministerial act, leading to possible liability for negligent performance of that obligation. Although making a contract may bind a municipality to perform an obligation with due care, the dispositive factor is that this contract merely promised that the defendant city would provide the Marina Apartments housing project with the same police protection that it provided to the remainder of the city’s residents. We have already established that the provision of police services to a city’s general population is a quintessential discretionary governmental act. The defendant city provided what it had promised. A promise to provide discretionary police services does not turn the implementation of the provision of those services into ministerial acts.