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, December 10, 2019, in the Legislative Chambers of the Omaha/Douglas Civic Center in Omaha, Nebraska.  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.

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 December 10, 2019, 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 Section 23-177 of the Omaha Municipal Code concerning employment classifications by adding the employment classification entitled Chief Pilot – Air Support Unit with a salary range of 31.1 MC ($115,086 to $140,525); to repeal Section 23-177 as heretofore existing

An ordinance to approve a premier marketing corporate partnership agreement between the Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau and Professional Convention Management Association (PMCA) in an amount not to exceed $167,000.00 for 2019-2020; $175,000.00 for 2020-2021, and $175,000.00 for 2021-2022; total of $517,000.00, for promoting the City of Omaha for the period of December 1, 2019 through December 31, 2022, with an option to extend an additional three (3) year term; to promote the City of Omaha as a premier destination for conventions and meetings; to authorize the payments specified therein

An ordinance to approve the acceptance of and authorize disbursement over more than one fiscal year from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Public Housing Investments Public and Indian Housing, FY 2019 Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Action Grant, Award #NE7D531CNP19, in the amount of $1,300,000.00, during the project period extending from September 19, 2019 to March 30, 2023; to provide funding to develop a plan to transform the Southside Terrace public housing site and surrounding neighborhood, and uniting the Choice Neighborhoods goals and strategies for a holistic approach to housing, people and neighborhood; 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 to amend the agreement dated June 15, 2017 and Ordinance number 41155 passed June 13, 2017 between the City of Omaha and the State of Nebraska Probation Office – District 4A in the amount of $108,854.00 for an amended agreement amount of $210,854.00, the amendment authorizes funding for one (1) Domestic Violence Unit Assistant, warrant sweep overtime, and training; to authorize payment from such funding and involving appropriations of more than one fiscal year in conformity with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter

An ordinance to amend the agreement dated June 22, 2017 and Ordinance number 41161 passed June 20, 2017 between the City of Omaha and the Women’s Center for Advancement in the amount of $155,226.00 for an amended agreement amount of $319,220.00, the amendment authorizes funding for two (2) 0.5 FTE Bilingual Advocates, supplies, indirect cost, and training; to authorize payment from such funding and involving appropriations of more than one fiscal year in conformity with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter

An ordinance to amend the agreement dated October 5, 2018 and Ordinance number 41611 passed October 2, 2018 between the City of Omaha and Toni G. Jensen, MSW, MPA in the amount of $8,487.00 for an amended agreement amount of $15,867.00, the amendment authorizes funding for Community Safety and Accountability Consultant Project Management, Report Writing, and Consultant Mileage; to authorize payment from such funding and involving appropriations of more than one fiscal year in conformity with Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter

An ordinance to approve a Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Omaha and the Nebraska Public Employees Group, Local 251; this Memorandum of Understanding provides for increased shift differential pay for Street Maintenance employees assigned to winter shifts on an experimental basis for the 2019-2020 winter season

An ordinance approving a contract between the City of Omaha and RSM US LLP, to approve and execute an Independent Annual Audit Agreement as provided in Section 2.21 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha, 1956, as amended, involving the payment of money from appropriations of more than one year as provided in Section 5.17 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Omaha, 1956, as amended, for the performance of an audit examination of all City funds and accounts, for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2019, December 31, 2020, December 31, 2021, December 31, 2022, and December 31, 2023, made in accordance with the Official Proposal submitted on September 13, 2019, by RSM US LLP

Anyone interested in these matters should be in attendance.    

Elizabeth Butler, CMC 
City Clerk 
City of Omaha

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