CITY OF OMAHA

NOTICE TO PUBLIC

The City Council of the City of Omaha will have a Pre-Council Meeting at 10:30 A.M. in the Conference Room, LC-1, Omaha/Douglas Civic Center, 1819 Farnam Street, for the purpose of discussing the agenda items and briefing and discussion of public business; and a regular Council Meeting at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, in the Legislative Chambers of the Omaha/Douglas Civic Center in Omaha, Nebraska. This meeting will have video conference capability. Proposed agenda kept continually current shall be available for public inspection in the Omaha/Douglas Civic Center at the Office of the City Clerk, but the Council shall have the right to modify the agenda to include items of an emergency nature only at such public meeting when convened. The video conference details and an agenda for the meeting is posted on the City of Omaha website at www.cityofomaha.org.

Elizabeth Butler

City Clerk

ALL REQUESTS FOR SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (SIGNERS) WILL REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF 48 HOURS ADVANCE NOTICE.

IF ALTERNATIVE FORMATS ARE NEEDED, ALL REQUESTS WILL REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF 72 HOURS ADVANCE NOTICE.

PLEASE NOTIFY SHERRI BROWN AT (402) 444-5554 IF ARRANGEMENTS NEED TO BE MADE.

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CITY OF OMAHA

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, will hold public hearings on August 10, 2021, beginning at 2:00 PM in Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68183, for the purpose of hearing testimony for:

An ordinance to amend Omaha Municipal Code 34-144, 34-145, 34-151, 34-157, 34-158, and 34-163; to provide definitions for terms; to establish procedures and rules for the use and lease of public right-of-way; to repeal Sections 34-144, 34-145, 34-151, 34-157, 34-158, and 34-163 as heretofore existing.

An ordinance to accept the bid from Priority 1 Courier & Delivery, LLC to provide delivery and sorting services to various Omaha Public Library facilities, in accordance with the lowest and best bid meeting specifications, for an estimated annual cost of $139,623.00 (2021 $59,071.27; 2022 $139,623.00; 2023 $80,551.73 for a total contract amount of $279,246.00), for a period of two (2) years beginning August 1, 2021, with an option to extend the contract for two (2) additional one (1)-year periods.

An ordinance (1) to approve an agreement between the City of Omaha and the Women’s Center for Advancement in the amount of $49,171.18; and (2) to authorize funding for such agreement from the City of Omaha’s FY 2020 STOP Violence Against Women (VAWA) Grant, Award #2020-WF-AX-0025 Sub-Grant #197-2021-VW4008 and FY 2018 STOP VAWA Grant, Award #2018-WF-AX-0015 Sub-Grant #197-2021-VW4008, awarded by the Nebraska Crime Commission; to provide partial funding for one (1) full-time Client Attorney and one (1) full-time Victim Advocate, Supplies, and Indirect Costs as part of the Douglas County Community Response Team; involving appropriations of more than one year in conformity with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter.

An ordinance supplemental to Ordinance No. 37507 authorizing and directing an issue as Additional Bonds in one or more series of not to exceed an aggregate principal amount of $31,000,000.00 Sanitary Sewerage System Revenue Bond, of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, to be termed for identification purposes “Sanitary Sewerage System Revenue Bond, Series of 2021 (NDEE Project),” for the purpose of providing funds to finance the acquisition, construction, improving and equipping of capital improvements to the City’s sanitary sewerage system; prescribing the form of the bond; covenanting to maintain and collect rates and charges for the use and services of the system; pledging the revenue derived from the operation of the system, including all extensions and improvements thereto and equipping thereof, to the payment of the cost of operating and maintaining the system, to the deposits required by Ordinance No. 35840, as supplemented, by Ordinance No. 37507, as previously supplemented, and by this ordinance, to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bond as the same fall due; covenanting to carry out all other covenants and agreements of this ordinance; limiting the payment of the bond solely to the system revenues; creating and establishing funds and accounts; authorizing the sale of the bond to the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (“NDEE”); making other covenants and agreements in connection with the foregoing; appointing a Paying Agent and Registrar; authorizing the form of the NDEE Loan Agreement between the City and NDEE and the execution and delivery thereof.

Anyone interested in these matters should be in attendance.   

  Elizabeth Butler, MMC

City Clerk, City of Omaha

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