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Dept/ Agency: Law
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Purpose: Accepting Funds -Settlement of Pre-Litigation
Docket No.: Pre-Litigation
Claimant: City of Newark
Claimant's Attorney: April C. Bauknight, Esq., 920 Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson Blvd., Room 316, City of Newark, New Jersey 07102
Settlement Amount: $329,327.00
Funding Source: City of Newark, Special Taxes
Additional Information:
Emergency contract, E2018-17, declared on July 31, 2018. There is no additional cost to the City of Newark.
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WHEREAS, Carjon and Direct Waste (hereinafter the "Companies" engaged the services of a PEO, namely, Insperity PEO Services, L.P. ("Insperity") to, on a timely basis, file payroll tax returns and remit payment of the taxes due and owing as part of their services to the Companies; and
WHEREAS, the Companies learned that contrary to Insperity's representations, payroll tax returns and the remittance of the taxes had not been timely undertaken due to an inadvertent oversight on Insperity's part; and
WHEREAS, the Companies self-reported the deficiencies by filing tax returns for the following: (1) quarters two, three and four of calendar year 2021, (2) all four quarters of calendar year 2022, (3) all four quarters of calendar year 2023 and (4) all four quarters of 2024 had not been paid.
WHEREAS, the Companies have been operating their businesses in the City of Newark since 1958; and
WHEREAS, the Companies employ over one hundred employees, all of whom work in Newark daily and approximately twenty-five (25) of them reside in the City of Newark; and.
WHEREAS the Parties desire to compromise and amicably resolve the present dispute without protracted litigation delay, costs or additional expenses; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
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