The town of Los Gatos has filed a lawsuit accusing Santa Clara County of covering up required repairs along Shannon Road during its annexation process.
In a lawsuit filed last month, Los Gatos is seeking $5.5 million in damages for fraud, breach of contract and negligence.
Once the stretch of road was annexed, the county transferred responsibility for repairs and maintenance to the town. Issues on Shannon Road arose in 2011, when the county Roads and Airports Department received reports that the shoulder of the roadway was slipping down the hillside. Khoa Vo, a civil engineer with the county, was asked to investigate.
Meanwhile, the county contacted Los Gatos town staff about annexing the land to Los Gatos. Then-parks and public works director Matt Morley responded to the county, expressing concerns over the required repairs to Shannon Road. The county authorized a repair project with Graniterock Construction that used polymer injections to stabilize the road, which the county performed just before the land was officially annexed to Los Gatos on January 16, 2018.
“Because of the annexation, Mr. Wilson’s findings were relayed to Mr. Jackson and Mr. Freitas, but the information was never disclosed to the town or documented by a supplemental final notice of inspection,” the lawsuit states, adding that the county directed the company to pave over the road “to conceal deep cracking, settling and Uretek’s pipes protruding through pavement.”
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