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.
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.
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