CITY OF OMAHA

Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Omaha met on January 14, 2025 and passed and approved the following ordinances:

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44098

AN ORDINANCE to amend the official zoning map of the City of Omaha adopted by Section 55-65 of the Omaha Municipal Code, by changing certain boundaries of the official zoning map of the City of Omaha in accordance with Section 55-886 of the Omaha Municipal Code, to rezone property located at 4522 Browne Street from R4(35)-Single-Family Residential District (High-Density) to R5-Urban Family Residential District.

Summary: The official zoning map adopted by Section 55-65 of the Omaha Municipal Code be, and the same hereby is, changed and amended in accordance with Section 55-886 of the Omaha Municipal Code so that: Lot 2, Cottage Home View Replat 1, a subdivision in Douglas County, Nebraska, is hereby rezoned from R4(35)-Single-Family Residential District (High-Density) to R5-Urban Family Residential District.

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading December 17, 2024; Third Reading, Public Hearing and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44099

AN ORDINANCE to amend the official zoning map of the City of Omaha adopted by Section 55-65 of the Omaha Municipal Code, by changing certain boundaries of the official zoning map of the City of Omaha in accordance with Section 55-886 of the Omaha Municipal Code, to rezone property located northeast of 36th and Leavenworth Streets from GC-General Commercial District to TOD-2-MX-Transit Oriented Development District-Mixed Use.

Summary: The official zoning map adopted by Section 55-65 of the Omaha Municipal Code be, and the same hereby is, changed and amended in accordance with Section 55-886 of the Omaha Municipal Code so that: Lot 1, Isaacs & Seldens Addition Replat 3, in Douglas County, Nebraska, is hereby rezoned from GC-General Commercial District to TOD-2-MX-Transit Oriented Development District--Mixed Use.

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading December 17, 2024; Third Reading, Public Hearing and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44100

AN ORDINANCE to approve a PUR-Planned Unit Redevelopment Overlay District, located northeast of 36th and Leavenworth Streets, to approve the Development Plan, and to provide for an effective date.

Summary: In accordance with Sections 55-595 through 55-600 of the Omaha Municipal Code, a PUR-Planned Unit Redevelopment Overlay District and the Development Plan, attached hereto and made a part hereof, are hereby approved, for the following described land in Douglas County, Nebraska: Lot 1, Isaacs & Seldens Addition Replat 3, a subdivision as surveyed, platted and recorded in Douglas County, Nebraska.

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading December 17, 2024; Third Reading, Public Hearing and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44101

AN ORDINANCE to rescind the ACI - Areas of Civic Importance Overlay District for property located northeast of 36th and Leavenworth Streets, and to provide for an effective date.

Summary: In accordance with Sections 55-609 through 55-617 of the Omaha Municipal Code, the ACI - Areas of Civic Importance Overlay District is hereby rescinded, for the following described land in Douglas County, Nebraska: Lot 1, Isaacs & Seldens Addition Replat 3, a subdivision as surveyed, platted and recorded in Douglas County, Nebraska.

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading December 17, 2024; Third Reading, Public Hearing and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44102

AN ORDINANCE approving an Agreement with Flyability, Inc. for a total amount of $109,980.00, for the lease of one (1) Elios 3 Drone to be utilized by the Sewer Maintenance and Flood Control Division, to be effective for a term of three (3) years; to provide for payments from appropriations of more than one year in accordance with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter of 1956, as amended; to provide for payments from a specific account; and to provide an effective date hereof.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44103

AN ORDINANCE (1) to approve an agreement between the City of Omaha and the Women’s Center for Advancement in the amount of fifty-two thousand sixty-three dollars ($52,063); and (2) to authorize funding for such agreement from the City of Omaha’s FY 2024 STOP Violence Against Women (VAWA) Grant, Award #15JOVW-23-GG-00588-STOP Sub-Grant #197-2024-VW4016 Year Two (2) awarded by the Nebraska Crime Commission; to provide partial funding for one (1) full-time Client Attorney, one (1) full-time Victim Advocate, one (1) full-time Education Victim Advocate, 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; and, providing for the effective date hereof.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44104

AN ORDINANCE (1) to approve an agreement between the City of Omaha and the Douglas County Board of Commissioners, Douglas County Administrative Office in the amount of seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and six dollars ($78,806); and (2) to authorize funding for such agreement from the City of Omaha’s FY 2024 STOP Violence Against Women (VAWA) Grant, Award #15JOVW-23-GG-00588-STOP Sub-Grant #197-2024-VW4016 Year Two, awarded by the Nebraska Crime Commission; to provide partial funding for one ( 1) full-time Misdemeanor Prosecutor and funding for one ( 1) full-time Liaison in the Douglas County Attorney’s Office Domestic Violence Prosecution Unit 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; and, providing for the effective date hereof.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44105

AN ORDINANCE to approve the City of Omaha and Douglas County joint application to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), FY 2024 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program application, in the amount of three hundred eight-five thousand, three hundred eighty-three dollars ($385,383) for law enforcement programs, prevention and education programs, prosecution and court programs, corrections and community corrections programs, mental health programs and crisis intervention teams, and planning, evaluation and technology improvement programs during the period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027; to provide the Council an opportunity for review and public comment for such application.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44106

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the approval of an Agreement between the City of Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of the Omaha Police Department and the Metro Drug Task Force, and Connie A. Garro to provide intelligence analyst services for the Metro Drug Task Force, for a term of one year from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025, and may be extended for two additional one-year terms upon mutual consent of the parties; that in consideration, the City shall pay Connie A. Garro an amount not to exceed $51,500.00 per year, $4,291.66 per month; $8,583.32 for 2024 (2 months) and $42,916.60 for 2025 (10 months); and to provide an effective date.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44097

AN ORDINANCE providing for the establishment of a good life district economic development program for any area within the city which is included in a good life district established pursuant to the Good Life Transformational Projects Act; the boundaries of the good life district program area; the establishment of the local sources of revenue; the time period of the collection of the local sources of revenue; the qualifications and restrictions on qualifying businesses; and the establishment of an effective date.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44107

AN ORDINANCE approving an Amended and Restated Public Improvement and Parking Development Agreement by and between the City of Omaha and Woodbury Corporation for the development by the City of various structured, surface, and on-street parking facilities generally located at 7400 Dodge Street in the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, providing for the City’s acquisition of real property within the site for $38,800,000, the assignment to the City of $39,000,000 in tax increment financing loan proceeds, the requirement of a minimum investment in public infrastructure by Woodbury of $27,000,000; and providing for an effective date.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

ORDINANCE NO. 44108

An Ordinance authorizing and approving a Lease Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) between the City of Omaha Public Facilities Corporation (the “Corporation”) and the City of Omaha, Nebraska (the “City”) a copy of which Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by this reference, to provide funds for the lease-purchase of and the financing of the costs of acquiring certain real property at the Crossroads Redevelopment Site in Omaha, Nebraska; authorizing and approving a Site Lease Agreement (the “Site Lease”) between the Corporation and the City for the leasing of the project site by the City to the Corporation, a copy of which Site Lease is attached hereto as Exhibit B and incorporated herein by this reference; approving an Indenture of Trust (the “Indenture”) between the Corporation and BOKF, National Association, as Trustee and Paying Agent, a copy of which Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit C and incorporated herein by this reference; approving the terms and conditions of the Corporation’s approximately $40,000,000 aggregate principal amount Lease Revenue Bonds (the “Bonds”), to be issued in one or more series and to be designated as either tax-exempt or taxable obligations as set forth in the Indenture and the issuance and delivery thereof; delegating authority to the City’s Finance Director to determine the number of series, final prices, interest rates, principal amounts, the tax-exempt or taxable status and redemption provisions for the Bonds; and satisfying applicable federal income tax law requirements for any series of bonds issued as tax-exempt obligations and approving the effective date hereof.

Summary: Same

First Reading December 10, 2024; Second Reading and Public Hearing December 17, 2024; Third Reading and Vote January 14, 2025

PASSED: January 14, 2025: 7-0

City of Omaha

Jean Stothert, Mayor

Elizabeth Butler, City Clerk

 

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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 January 28, 2025, beginning at 2:00 PM in Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68183, for the purpose of hearing testimony for:

 

An ordinance vacating Burt Street, from 17th Street to Florence Boulevard; a portion of 18th Street, from Cuming Street to its southern terminus; a portion of east-west alley, from 17th Street to 18th Street between Cuming Street and Burt Street; and a portion of east-west alley, from 18th Street to its western terminus, south of Burt Street, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; providing for the reversion or transfer of the same.

 

An ordinance vacating Burt Street from the west right-of-way line of Florence Boulevard to the east right-of-way line of 20th Street, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska; providing for the reversion or transfer of the same.

 

An ordinance to approve a Right-of-Way Vacation Agreement between the City of Omaha and Creighton University, concerning the terms and conditions of the proposed vacation of the right-of-way, including required public improvements and the maintenance and liability obligations, for Burt Street between 17th Street and Florence Boulevard, Burt Street between Florence Boulevard and 20th Street, and 18th Street from Cuming Street to south of Burt Street; to authorize the execution of said Agreement.

 

An ordinance approving a Professional Services Agreement with Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to provide professional design phase services on OPW 54711, being the CSO Real Time Controls, Minne Lusa Relief Sewer Diversion Modifications and CSO 105 Outfall Active Controls Projects; to provide for payments from appropriations of more than one year in accordance with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter of 1956, as amended; to provide for payments from a specific account.

 

An ordinance to accept the bid of Alexander Lawn & Landscape in the total amount of $22,636.00 to furnish all labor, materials, and equipment necessary to complete the Grounds Maintenance for Bryan Park, located at 5001 South 147th Street. This Agreement will commence upon City Council approval and run through December 31, 2025, and may be extended on the same terms and conditions for two (2) additional one-year terms at the option of the City, exercised by the Parks, Recreation, and Public Property Department.

 

An ordinance approving an Agreement between the City of Omaha and Hausmann Construction, Inc., for more than one year, for the construction of the Levi Carter Park Activity and Sports Complex.

 

An ordinance to approve a lease, involving the payment of money from appropriations of more than one year in accordance with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha, 1956, as amended, by and between the City of Omaha, and Project Harmony, for the use of premises at 11949 “Q” Street, Omaha, Nebraska by the Omaha Police Department as office space for a term commencing January 1, 2025 and extending through December 31, 2027, in the annual amount of $143,698.00 for year 2025 to be paid in quarterly installments of $35,924.50; and in the annual amount of $148,001.00 for year 2026 to be paid in quarterly installments of $37,000.25; and in the annual amount of $152,404.00 for year 2027 to be paid in quarterly installments of $38,101.00.

 

An ordinance to approve the acceptance of and authorize disbursement over more than one fiscal year from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, FY 2024 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program, Award #15PBJA-24-GG-05332-JAGX, in the amount of $385,383.00, during the project period extending from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027; to provide law enforcement programs, prevention and education programs, prosecution and court programs, corrections and community corrections programs, mental health programs and crisis intervention teams, and planning, evaluation and technology improvement programs; to authorize payment from such grant funding and involving appropriations of more than one year in conformity with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter.

 

An ordinance (1) to approve an agreement between the City of Omaha and The Nebraska Medical Center in the amount of $75,992.21; and (2) to authorize funding for such agreement from the City of Omaha’s FY 2022 Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grant, Award #15PBJA-22GG-00178-BRND, awarded by the Office of Justice Programs; provide partial funding for one (1) statistician, fringe benefits, and indirect costs as part of the Encompass Omaha project; involving appropriations of more than one year in conformity with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter.

 

An ordinance in accordance with Section 5.10 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha, 1956, as amended, to transfer $25,929.00 in unencumbered appropriations in the 2025 Budget of the City of Omaha from the Wage Adjustment account to the City departments; and to fix the effective date hereof to be immediately upon passage in accordance with Section 2.12 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha, 1956, as amended.

 

An ordinance to amend Sections 22-77 of the Omaha Municipal Code to insert actual dates in lieu of references to dates for purposes of clarity and to provide for a second irrevocable Deferred Retirement Option Program for the police chief and fire chief subject to the approval of the Mayor.

 

Elizabeth Butler, CMC

City Clerk, City of Omaha

 

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CITY OF OMAHA

TRANSPORTATION

PROJECT INFORMATION

 

PROJECT: MAPA-28(156)

N-64/Link 28-K Corridor Study, Omaha; C.N. 22913

 

The City of Omaha Public Works Department is seeking public comments regarding a study of Military Ave., NW Radial, Cuming St. from 72nd St. to U.S. 75 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Identified as N-64/Link 28-K Corridor Study, Omaha, this corridor safety study aims to identify future improvements to increase safety and access for all users.

The public is encouraged to visit https://bit.ly/MilitaryAve-NWRadial-CumingStStudy to leave a comment or interact with the virtual map. Feedback on the corridor will be open through February 21, 2025.

 

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CITY OF OMAHA

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, will hold a public hearing on February 4, 2025, at 2:00 PM in Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68183. The purpose of this hearing is to consider approval of a Big Red satellite keno agreement between EHPV Lottery Services, LLC and:

 

Cortez Bar, LLC, dba “Penthouse”, located at 4530 South 84th Street.

 

PizzOPie, LLC, dba “Pizza West”, located at 12301 West Maple Road.

 

R and T Group, LLC, dba “Trips Bar and Grill”, located at 7812 “F” Street.

 

Ramonas Mexican Restaurant, L.L.C., dba “Ramonas Mexican Restaurant”, located at 8510 North 30th Street.

 

Shamrock Lounge, LLC, dba “Finnegan’s Pub & Grill”, located at 4309 South 120th Street.

 

Anyone interested in these matters or desiring to give evidence in support of or in protest against the issuance of such license should be in attendance at this meeting.

 

Elizabeth Butler, CMC

City Clerk

City of Omaha

 

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CITY OF OMAHA

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Omaha, Nebraska, will hold public hearings on February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM in Legislative Chambers, 1819 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68183. The purpose of these hearings is to consider approval of:

 

Class “C” Liquor License for Mama’s Pizza Omaha, Inc., dba “Mama’s Pizza”, located at 715 N Saddle Creek Road.

 

Class “C” Liquor License for Mama’s Pizza Omaha, Inc., dba “Mama’s Pizza West”, located at 15615 Pacific Street, Suite 1.

 

Anyone interested in these matters or desiring to give evidence in support of or in protest against the issuance of such license should be in attendance at this meeting.

 

Elizabeth Butler, CMC

City Clerk

City of Omaha

 

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