contract between the Class and Salt Lake County: letters offering employment to two different Class members; two notices of personnel action; an excerpt from the Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff's Merit Service Commission Policies and Procedures Manual; and a signed document, bearing the signature of one Class member, stating that the member has read and understood the departmental policies and procedures manual. The Class argues that these documents constitute an employment contract based upon a written instrument. We disagree. 112 First, we have previously disposed of similar claims for the primary reason that the documents listed above, in some form, are all mandated under the Personnel Management Act. See, e.g., Thurston v. Box Elder County, 835 P.2d 165, 169-70 (Utah 1992) (<HOLDING>). Through the various provisions of the
holding that the plaintiffs breach of contract claim was properly a statutory claim under the personnel management act holding that breach of contract claim related back to misrepresentation claim because operative facts upon which the breach of contract claim was based were contained in the misrepresentation counts of the original complaint holding that a breach of contract claim against one defendant related back to interference with contract claim against that defendant and breach of contract claim against second defendant because it was based on same set of operative facts recognizing that the elements of a claim for breach of contract are 1 existence of a valid contract and 2 breach of the terms of that contract holding the government liable to plaintiffs for breach of contract