City pays $10,000 to babysit Ken

The Lincoln Journal Star ran an editorial today detailing what a poor job the city of Lincoln has done looking after the people's money.

Particularly damning was the revelation that the cost for the city of making sure Ken Svoboda made good on his contract. This news was detailed earlier this week.

In the case of the contract with Clark Enersen Partners, the city paid landscape architect Dennis Scheer $180 an hour (later raised to $185) and landscape architect designer Karen Nalow $60 an hour (later raised to $70) for construction/observation/administration services” overseeing Councilman Ken
Svoboda’s contract to maintain the medians on 84th Street.

In the end, the cost was an additional 20% above and beyond they money the city had paid Ken!

By October the architectural firm had run up $10,765 in fees. Svoboda’s contract itself was worth only $56,000.

And I thought the $10.00 an hour my babysitter charged was expensive!