COUNTY OF SAN MATEO

Inter-Departmental Correspondence

Employee and Public Services Department

 

DATE:

January 23, 2002

BOARD MEETING DATE:

February 5, 2002

 

TO:

Honorable Board of Supervisors

FROM:

Mary Welch, Director of Employee and Public Services

Priscilla H. Morse, Risk Manager

SUBJECT:

Disposition of Claims Filed Against County

 

Recommendation
Deny the claims listed below.

 

Background
Under authority of Resolution No. 35006 and Ordinance No. 2321, the Board directed the Director to process claims filed against the County. Further investigation may indicate justification for payment by the County. If so, payment will be made under the authority of the Risk Manager or will be brought back to the Board.

 

Discussion
The Risk Management Division has reviewed these claims and recommends that you take the following action:

Claim #

Claimant

Recommended Board
Action and Basis

 

Claims recommended for denial:

     

G01-033

DeMartis, Joan

12/11/01 Non-culpable

 

Claimant, an employee, alleges lost personal property from the Assessor's Office.

   

G01-034

Dobel, Robbin

11/24/01 Non-culpable

 

Claimant alleges his car wheels were out of alignment after driving over a large deep pothole on Sand Hill Road.

 

G01-035

Giles, Todd

1/3/02 Non-culpable

 

Claimant alleges his planned non-operated automobile was wrongfully towed off private property.

 

G01-036

McConnell, Betty

7/20/01 Non-culpable

 

Claimant alleges San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Task Force callously and maliciously used unnecessary force and brutality, violating her civil rights upon entering her home with a search warrant that was not served properly.

 

G01-038

Patterson, John

11/15/01 Non-culpable

 

Claimant alleges that as he pulled into a parking space at 40 Tower Road in San Mateo, a water pipe sticking out of the ground cracked the front bumper shield of his van.