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Vendor tells Oxnard committee unpaid purchase order has left firm facing lawsuit
Summary
Victor Scutari of Black Point Group told the Public Works & Transportation Committee the city rescinded a purchase order after the work was completed in 2024, leaving his company owed about $120,000 and threatening a June 10 deadline to sue if the city does not meet to resolve the matter.
Victor Scutari, owner of Black Point Group, used the meeting's public-comment period to say his company is owed roughly $120,000 after the city rescinded a purchase order for work completed in 2024.
"From day one, we tried to sit down and say, 'Well, let's figure out what the issues are.' Nobody had any problem with the work we did," Scutari told the committee. He said his firm has tried 19 times—by letters, voicemails and attorney contact—to get a resolution and that he faces a June 10 deadline to file suit if discussions do not begin.
Scutari said the unpaid amount is materially damaging to his small, family-run company and that he had appealed directly to Public Works staff and accounting with no satisfactory response. He told the committee he does not want to sue the city but cannot simply write off the amount.
The clerk recorded Scutari's statement during the non-agenda public-comment period; no staff response or commitment to a meeting with the vendor is recorded in the transcript. The committee did not take a formal action on the item during the meeting.
The transcript shows the claim remains unresolved on the record; committee members acknowledged the comment and proceeded with the posted agenda.
