DeLong

Alice DeLong, Treasurer of the City of Redondo Beach and of the Redondo Beach Parking Authority, appeals a judgment granting to plaintiffs City of Redondo Beach (hereinafter the City) and the Redondo Beach Parking Authority (hereinafter the Authority) a writ of mandamus ordering her to pay approved warrants and denying DeLong’s petition for mandamus to compel the City to provide and pay for an attorney for her defense of the action.

Facts

The City and the Authority on March 12, 1980, filed a petition for writ of mandamus (Code Civ. Proc., § 1085) against DeLong. In the petition they allege that Alice DeLong, city treasurer and treasurer of the Authority, is required to disburse monies on demand properly audited and approved in the manner provided by the city charter which requires approval by the city manager and city clerk and final approval by the city council; that the City established the Authority which agreed to acquire a site and construct a parking facility; that the City agreed to lease the parking facility; that the Authority issued $11,850,000 of revenue bonds to finance site acquisition and construction; that in 1972 the Authority accepted the completed…