Another problem with the Redflex contract

What about unpaid citations, does the City of Knoxville have to cover them This clause is on page 9.

(E) Prosecution of Citations: Compensation. The City shall diligently prosecute Citations, and Redflex shall have the right to receive, and the City shall be obligated to pay, the compensation set forth on Exhibit D attached hereto.

The problem this presents is if someone doesn’t pay a citation, will Redflex still receive compensation for the citation? According to this, it should and the City will have to pay Redflex from their share. I've been playing around with some numbers. It looks like during the time when Redflex and the City of Knoxville would be splitting the money 85/15, if 20% don't pay their citations, the city will be losing money.

The big problem with this is that several years ago, the Knoxville City Court, which would be the court that would have jurisdiction over these citations, had over a million dollars of unpaid fines. This news report is from 2001 and I’m worried that things haven’t changed since then.

Another question is if someone successfully fights a citation, will the City have to make up the difference? Maybe that's why there is no plan for letting people contest citations.