Robert Scattini gets $28,000 for services from the past 16
months
Sheriff candidate and San Benito County Marshal Robert Scattini
agreed to a settlement with the county after he had filed a $27,685
claim last month due to unpaid work.
The agreement will pay Scattini $26,395 of his claim
– taking care of fees the accumulated over a 16-month
period.
”
I’m glad I got paid,
”
he said.
”
They gave me the money I earned.
”
Scattini, whose yearly salary is a little more than $28,000,
depends on charging business for services he does in the marshal’s
office, he said.
Robert Scattini gets $28,000 for services from the past 16 months
Sheriff candidate and San Benito County Marshal Robert Scattini agreed to a settlement with the county after he had filed a $27,685 claim last month due to unpaid work.
The agreement will pay Scattini $26,395 of his claim – taking care of fees the accumulated over a 16-month period.
“I’m glad I got paid,” he said. “They gave me the money I earned.”
Scattini, whose yearly salary is a little more than $28,000, depends on charging business for services he does in the marshal’s office, he said.
His work has been unpaid since January 2009, after the board was told that a government official couldn’t charge another government office for doing services.
The number of services that went unpaid totaled nearly 850, Scattini said.
But Tuesday’s agreement, approved on the board of supervisors’ consent agenda, paid off nearly all those funds that the county owed. The only money that wasn’t paid was $1,290 owed to Scattini by wavier services he did for the San Benito County Superior Court, according to county documents.
The agreement also settled how Scattini would be paid for the rest of his time as the marshal, before the office is closed at the end of December.
The county will pay Scattini $30 per service from April 20, when the claim was filed, through January 3, 2011. All invoices will be filed every quarter and be signed off by the county administrative office.
Before, Scattini would charge each county office or entity a bill for the marshal’s services, but now everything will go through just the head office, Scattini said.
Scattini filed the claim after Supervisors Reb Monaco and Anthony Botelho told him that filing it would be the best way to settle the situation.
With Scattini filing a claim, it allows the county to expedite the process, Monaco said.
“I think the board has given direction to fix the issue,” he said.
Discussions over the matter have occurred in closed session the past month before going on the agenda Tuesday. The decision took longer because the board wanted to figure out a way to pay Scattini the rest of the year, Scattini said.
“It was just a matter of … they wanted to know how they were going to pay me,” he said. “The board was always fair.”
