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C. 20
To: Board of Supervisors
From: Sharon L. Anderson, County Counsel
Date: June  16, 2015
The Seal of Contra Costa County, CA
Contra
Costa
County
Subject: Public report of litigation settlement agreements that became final during the period of May 1, 2015 through May 31, 2015.

APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On:   06/16/2015
APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:
John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
ABSENT:
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor
Contact: Thomas Geiger, (925) 335-1800
cc: Thomas L. Geiger, Assistant County Counsel     Sharon Hymes-Offord, Risk Manager    
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED:     June  16, 2015
David Twa,
 
BY: , Deputy

 

RECOMMENDATION(S):

RECEIVE public report of litigation settlement agreements that became final during the period of May 1, 2015 through May 31, 2015, as recommended by County Counsel.  

FISCAL IMPACT:

Settlement amounts are listed below.

BACKGROUND:

One agreement to settle pending litigation, as defined in Government Code section 54956.9, became final during the period of May 1, 2015 through May 31, 2015.  
  





BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
G.F., et al. v. Contra Costa County et al., U.S.D.C. Case No. C 13-3667 MEJ (N.D.Cal.). On April 14, 2015, the Board authorized the entry into a settlement agreement to, among other things, memorialize changes initiated by the Probation Department to create a positive behavior management system at juvenile hall and provide for payment of attorneys’ fees and costs in the amount of $1.34 million to Disability Rights Advocates, Public Counsel, Paul Hastings LLP, and Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to dismiss the litigation. Settlement was authorized in closed session by a 4-0 vote, Supervisor Glover absent. The settlement agreement was fully executed on May 19, 2015. The funding source is the Risk Management Liability Internal Service Fund.  
  
This report includes final settlements of litigation matters handled by the Office of the County Counsel. This report does not include litigation settlements that were reported by the Risk Management Division of the County Administrator’s Office as a consent item on the Board’s open session agenda.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The report would not be accepted.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

N.A.

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