City eats $100k Svoboda owes Lincoln

With the City of Lincoln facing a budget shortfall of nearly $9 million, it has surprisingly written off more than $100,000 that Ken Svoboda owed the city due to nonperformance of his landscaping contract. This according to the Sunday Journal Star (it's the article on the side of the page, not the main article).

Assistant City Attorney Steve Huggenberger confirmed the change order effectively waived $101,100 in “liquidated damages” against Ray’s for not getting the medians landscaped according to the city’s specifications by the original deadline of June 1, 2004.

What a crock! Nobody can honestly say that if Ken wasn't a city councilman who has the slimmest of chances of becoming the next mayor that he wouldn't have received this sort of preferential treatment.

Ken should be ashamed of himself and the city should be ashamed of itself for letting him get away with it!