Someplace in Santa Clara County’s digital coffers, there’s about $26,000 that belongs to PG&E. And there’s $40,000 owed to an outfit referred to as Complete Peripherals — which might be a San Jose freight firm however could possibly be an Australian laptop producer. And even Santa Clara College has $1,082.02 ready to be picked up.
It’s all a part of greater than $490,000 in unclaimed normal assortment monies being held by the county’s Division of Tax and Collections, which receives overpayments for public help, restitution for crime victims, plus fines, charges and penalty assessments ordered by the county or courts. Cash goes unclaimed often due to overpayments or duplicate funds, and generally victims can’t be positioned or refuse the cash, or a enterprise has gone below.
Margarita Rodriguez, the division’s appearing director, says each effort is made to refund the rightful homeowners of the unclaimed cash. However generally the division will get no response, letters are returned, checks go uncashed or recipients refuse the funds for no matter motive. (If anyone wants PG&E’s contact information, it’s on my invoice.)
A number of the cash has been within the belief funds for greater than a decade and possibly gained’t be collected — there’s about $2,100 from 2005-06 owed to Regal Dodge, a former Sunnyvale automobile dealership on El Camino Actual that’s now the placement of an condo complicated. Ditto for Mervyn’s ($98.56) or Mel Cotton’s ($71.28), each recollections of the procuring days of yore round right here.
However there are greater than 600 people and corporations on the listing, and a few of them might not even understand they’re on it. You'll be able to test it out at www.sccdtac.org/unclaimedmonies, however don’t dawdle: All claims should be filed by March 14 or the county can simply maintain something that’s been due for greater than three years.
NEW FORMAT FOR SILICON VALLEY’S TOWN HALL: Joint Enterprise’s annual State of the Valley convention is ready for Feb. 18, and it’s undoubtedly going to replicate the state of Silicon Valley for the reason that present plan is for a hybrid convention. As of now, the intention is to have an in-person occasion at Stanford College, with the masked-and-vaccinated viewers capped at 300 folks. Nevertheless it additionally will likely be broadcast concurrently beginning at 9 a.m. through Brandlive to the broader Bay Space and past.
The centerpiece of the annual “city corridor” is the discharge of the Silicon Valley Index, which measures how we’re doing in quite a lot of areas together with housing, jobs and transportation. However the spotlight of the three-hour program stands out as the keynote by Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Submit. In the event you’re a daily reader of his, he tends to inform it like it's, and little question he’ll make use of his perception in exploring Silicon Valley’s position within the nationwide dialog, together with how our area is faring relating to fairness and inclusion.
Registration for the livestream is $35 at www.jointventure.org.
CELEBRATING MLK DAY: The African American Group Service Company in San Jose will host its forty second annual luncheon for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17. Nevertheless, you’ll have to offer your individual lunch for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic has once more compelled this system to be on Zoom.
With the theme of “A Promissory Be aware in Default,” the midday occasion will characteristic a keynote deal with by the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, a nationwide determine who's president of the nonprofit Repairers of the Breach, and a “hearth chat” by an equally highly effective speaker extra acquainted to Silicon Valley, retired Superior Courtroom Choose LaDoris Cordell.
The celebration, emceed by NBC Bay Space’s Marcus Washington, additionally will honor this yr’s MLK Award winners: San Jose State Affiliate Professor William T. Armaline (Gene Younger Award); artist Tyler Gordon (Champion for Change Award); HP Vice President and Chief Variety Officer Lesley Slaton Brown (Dealing with the Problem Award); Metropolis Peace Challenge founder Pastor Danny Sanchez (Spirit of Service for Excellent Pastoral Service Award); and social entrepreneur Chandra Brooks (Drum Main Award).
Tickets to the luncheon are $10 and might be bought at www.sjaacsa.org/mlkluncheon.