Municipalities are generally immune from tort liability when their employees perform discretionary acts involving the exercise of reasoned judgment, except in those cases where plaintiffs establish that they had a "special relationship" with the municipality giving rise to a duty enforceable in tort (see Pelaez v Seide,
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