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Nature of Suit Code: 720
Nature of Suit: Labor Management Relations Act
Cause of Action: 29:185 Labor/Mgt. Relations (Contracts)

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SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND STIPULATION FOR CONDITIONAL DISMISSAL 

AND ENTRY OF JUDGMENT UPON DEFAULT -- Case No. C 06 3515 WDB Page 1

McCARTHY, JOHNSON & MILLER

Law Corporation

DIANE SIDD-CHAMPION, SBN 78140

LORI A. NORD, SBN 87993

ELIZABETH J. MASSON, SBN 240812

595 Market Street, Suite 2200

San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 882-2992

Fax: (415) 882-2999

E-mail: dsidd-champion@mjmlaw.us

Attorneys for Petitioners

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

GENERAL EMPLOYEES TRUST FUND and

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF GENERAL

EMPLOYEES TRUST FUND,

Petitioners,

v.

POWER CLEAN ENTERPRISES, INC.,

Respondent.

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Case No. C 06 3515 WDB

SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT 

AND STIPULATION FOR

CONDITIONAL DISMISSAL 

AND ENTRY OF JUDGMENT

UPON DEFAULT 

COME NOW the petitioners General Employees Trust Fund and Board of Trustees of General

Employees Trust Fund (collectively, “Trust Fund”) and respondent Power Clean Enterprises, Inc.

(“Employer”) and hereby enter into this Settlement Agreement and Stipulation for Conditional

Dismissal and Entry of Judgment upon Default (“Agreement”), stipulating and agreeing as follows:

1. The Trust Fund has alleged that Employer failed to make fringe benefit contributions

on a timely basis on account of work performed by Employer’s employees during the period from

January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002, as more fully appears in the Petition to Confirm

Arbitration Award.

2. The Trust Fund caused an audit to be conducted of the books and records of the

Employer for the period from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002 (“Audit”). The Audit

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report showed that the Employer owed monies to the Trust Fund. When the Employer failed to pay

the monies found due in the Audit, the Trust Fund referred the matter to final and binding expedited

arbitration. The arbitration award found that the Employer owed the Trust Fund $14,892.31 plus

interest from November 29, 2005 until paid. Since the issuance of the arbitration award, interest

totaling $2,688.30 has accrued.

3. The Trust Fund and the Employer now desire to settle this matter and have agreed upon

a basis for the adjustment of the matters alleged in the Petition to Confirm Arbitration Award and the

entry of a judgment in this action pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

4. The Employer agrees to the entry of judgment in the amount of $17,580.61, plus

interest at the rate often percent (10%) per annum from July 28, 2006 until paid, to be paid as follows:

(a) The Employer shall make eleven (11) payments of One Thousand Five Hundred

Forty-Five Dollars ($1,545.00) per month on or before the first day of each month beginning August

1, 2006; and 

(b) The Employer shall make one payment of One Thousand Four Hundred

Thirteen Dollars and Thirty-Three Cents ($1,413.33) on or before the first day of July 2007. 

(c) If all payments are made in a timely fashion, the payments will be applied as

follows:

Date Due Amount To Interest To Principal Balance

8/1/06 $1,545.00 $19.27 $1,525.73 $16,054.88

9/1/06 $1,545.00 $133.79 $1,411.21 $14,643.67

10/1/06 $1,545.00 $122.03 $1,422.97 $13,220.70

11/1/06 $1,545.00 $110.17 $1,434.83 $11,785.87

12/1/06 $1,545.00 $98.22 $1,446.78 $10,339.09

1/1/07 $1,545.00 $86.16 $1,458.84 $8,880.24

2/1/07 $1,545.00 $74.00 $1,471.00 $7,409.25

3/1/07 $1,545.00 $61.74 $1,483.26 $5,925.99

4/1/07 $1,545.00 $49.38 $1,495.62 $4,430.37

5/1/07 $1,545.00 $36.92 $1,508.08 $2,922.29

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6/1/07 $1,545.00 $24.35 $1,520.65 $1,401.65

7/1/07 $1,413.33 $11.68 $1,401.65 $0.00

(d) All unpaid sums shall accrue interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum

from July 28, 2006 until paid. Each payment shall be credited first to interest and then to principal.

Interest shall continue to accumulate at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum on the unpaid balance

for any later payments and thus can result in a higher amount due. However, there shall be no

prepayment penalty if the Employer chooses to prepay principal, in part or in full, at any time.

Prepayment by the Employer shall not result in the acceleration of the due date on any interest.

(e) All of the foregoing payments shall be in the form of certified checks or

cashier’s checks made payable to “McCarthy, Johnson & Miller Trustee Account,” and sent to the

following address:

Diane Sidd-Champion, Esq.

McCarthy, Johnson & Miller Law Corporation

595 Market Street, Suite 2200

San Francisco, CA 94105

5. The parties request that this action be conditionally dismissed.

6. The Employer agreesto remain current in its future obligations to submit timely fringe

benefit contributions to the Trust Fund for the work months from July 2006 through June 2007. If the

Employer fails to submit a report form or to pay any monthly fringe benefit contributions to the Trust

Fund for the work months from July 2006 through June 2007 by the twentieth (20th) day of the month

following the work month, it is agreed that the Employer shall be deemed in default of this Agreement.

7. If the Employer fails to pay any installment due under this Agreement by the due date

set forth in this Agreement, it is agreed that the Employer shall be deemed in default of this

Agreement.

8. In the event of a default under the terms of Paragraph 6 or Paragraph 7 of this

Agreement, it is agreed that the Trust Fund may, without notice, move the Court to revoke the

dismissal and enter Judgment in favor of the Trust Fund and against the Employer. The parties agree

that if Judgment is entered, Judgment shall be in the amount of Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred

Eighty Dollars and Sixty-One Cents ($17,580.61), less the principal credited from any payments

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already received; that the Judgment will immediately fall due; and that the Trust Fund will be enabled

to execute immediately on the Judgment for said sum. Otherwise, this action shall be dismissed with

prejudice upon the completion of all payments due under Paragraph 4 above.

9. Each party is to bear its respective attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in this action.

However, should the Trust Fund be required to enter or execute on the Judgment pursuant to the terms

of this Agreement, the Trust Fund may recover all attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by it from May 1,

2006 forward on this action.

10. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall

constitute an original, and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

POWER CLEAN ENTERPRISES, INC.

Respondent

Dated: July 31, 2006 By: /s/ David Aria 

DAVID ARIA

President

GENERAL EMPLOYEES TRUST FUND 

and BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF GENERAL

EMPLOYEES TRUST FUND

Petitioners

Dated: August 3, 2006 By: /s/ Charles Gilchrist 

Chair

By: /s/ George Hernandez 

Co-Chair

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

REDIGER, McHUGH & HUBBERT, LLP

Dated: July 31, 2006 By: /s/ Ealon A. Hubbert, Jr. 

EALON A. HUBBERT, JR.

Attorneys for Respondent

McCARTHY, JOHNSON & MILLER

Law Corporation

Dated: August 7, 2006 By: /s/ Diane Sidd-Champion 

DIANE SIDD-CHAMPION

Attorneys for Petitioners

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: _______________, 2006 By: _______________________________________

WAYNE D. BRAZIL

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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DECLARATION OF SERVICE BY MAIL

I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of California. I am over the

age of eighteen years and not a party to the within matter. My business address is 595 Market

Street, Suite 2200, San Francisco, California 94105.

I am familiar with the practice of McCarthy, Johnson & Miller Law Corporation for

collection and processing of correspondence for mailing with the United States Postal Service. It

is the practice that correspondence is deposited with the United States Postal Service the same day

it is submitted for mailing.

I served the following document by placing a true copy of each such document for collection

and mailing, in the course of ordinary business practice, with other correspondence of McCarthy,

Johnson & Miller Law Corporation, located at 595 Market Street, Suite 2200, San Francisco,

California 94105, on August 21, 2006, enclosed in a sealed envelope with postage fully prepaid,

addressed in the manner set forth immediately below this declaration.

Document served: Settlement Agreement and Stipulation for Conditional Dismissal and

Entry of Judgment Upon Default.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

Dated at San Francisco, California, on August 21, 2006.

By: /s/ Anna Lee 

 ANNA LEE

Power Clean Enterprises, Inc.

7562 Cherry Glen Avenue

Citrus Heights, CA 95610

Ealon A. Hubbert, Jr.

Rediger, McHugh & Hubbert, LLP

555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1540

Sacramento, CA 95814

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