The Omaha City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, at 2 p.m. in the Legislative Chambers at 1819 Farnam Street to take final action on the city’s 2027 budget, a six-year Capital Improvement Program, and a series of funding shifts and contracts, according to the published agenda.
Council members are set to vote on multiple resolutions revising the mayor’s recommended 2027 budget as presented July 21, 2026. Proposed changes include reallocating $50,000.00 at a time from “Other Budgetary Accounts Misc-Contingency Liability Expense” to increase service programs funding for organizations such as Omaha Parks Foundation, Aksarben Curling Club, Heartland Hope Mission, Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation, Youth Emergency Services, Omaha Irish Cultural Center, Nebraska Center for Workforce Development, Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Wolf Pack Sports Foundation, and Food Bank of the Heartland, as well as additional appropriations for Parks & Facilities, including Mount Vernon Gardens Park and Dreamland Park, and several community service programs like B&B Sports Academy, North Omaha Music and Arts, Georgia's House of Hope, Blue Bucket Project, and Native Omaha Days.
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One budget resolution (RES. 2026-0707) would decrease General Fund property tax revenues by $4,368,417.00 and increase sales tax revenues by the same amount by decreasing the General Fund property tax mill levy and increasing General Fund sales tax revenue. That item requires the affirmative votes of five councilmembers. Following consideration of all revisions, the council is scheduled to vote on RES. 2026-0698 to formally adopt the City of Omaha Budget for 2027. The council will also consider RES. 2026-0682 to approve the 2027–2032 Capital Improvement Program.
The agenda lists several liquor license matters for public hearing and vote, including new Class C liquor license applications for "Kidlavie" at 3001 South 144th Street, Suite J09 and "Frozen Vines" at 4849 North 90th Street, Suite A; a new Class I liquor license for "Crystal Jade" at 843 North 98th Street; and an addition to the existing Class I liquor license premises for "879 Bar" at 415 South 13th Street to extend into 413 South 13th Street and expand the outdoor area.
On development and redevelopment financing, the council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and vote on RES. 2026-0466 concerning the 2501 Center Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Redevelopment Project Plan for 2501 Center Street, proposing demolition of two existing buildings and construction of a new apartment complex with 180 units and 18 townhome units (198 total), all to be affordable housing, with up to $3,613,528.00 in TIF to offset eligible costs. The item includes a request from the applicant to postpone. Council members are also set to consider RES. 2026-0634 for the Drury Plaza Hotel Redevelopment Plan at 501 South 10th Street, proposing an eight-story, 210-room hotel with structured parking, meeting space, a fitness center, indoor pool, and a third-party restaurant, plus designation as an Enhanced Employment Area and authorization of a general business occupation tax up to $7,550,000.00; the Planning Board and Planning Department recommend denial, and the agenda notes communications in support and opposition.
Consent agenda items include final readings of several ordinances, among them ORD. 44782 for a purchase order with Summit Fire Protection for fire prevention services in an estimated annual amount of $208,590.00; ORD. 44783 approving a redevelopment and TIF agreement for Douglas Senior Housing, LP and Douglas Market, LLC at 2211 Douglas Street with up to $1,133,705.00 in TIF for a mixed affordable and market-rate apartment project; and ORD. 44784 approving a 25-year park and recreation lease with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for continued use of Standing Bear Lake, with the Finance Department authorized to pay $2,550.00 from specified accounts.
The council will also consider a cluster of resolutions for capital and infrastructure projects, including a $10,170,264.00 contract for the Compost Relocation - Phase 2 Project (OPW 55131), a $5,680,000.00 contract for Fire Station #70 (OPW 54706), $170,140.00 for concrete speed bumps at various locations (OPW 55138), and an additional $239,327.60 change order for the Forest Lawn Creek Inflow Removal and Outfall Storm Sewer Project (OPW 52470). Other items include task order agreements with HDR Engineering, Inc. for Center Street Safety Improvements, a Municipal Annual Certification of Program Compliance to the Nebraska Board of Public Roads Classifications and Standards, park improvements for S.I.D. #617 – Majestic 178 (Blue Heron Parkway Improvements), and the purchase of three 2026 Ford Bronco Sport SUVs and two 2026 Ford Maverick XL trucks for the Omaha Police Department totaling $152,251.00.
Public safety and grant-related ordinances on second reading with public hearings include ORD. 44793 for a barricading services contract with Iowa Plains Signing, Inc. dba Todco; ORD. 44797 to accept and disburse $174,415.00 from the FY 2025 State Homeland Security Grant Award #EMW-2025-SS-05042; ORD. 44799 to accept and disburse $269,671.00 in FY 2026–27 STOP Violence Against Women (VAWA) grant funds with a $72,557.00 match totaling $342,228.00; and ORD. 44800 to accept and disburse $438,913.00 under the FY 2025 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program Award #15PBJA-25-GG-03524-JAGX. The agenda also lists an interlocal agreement with Saunders County regarding keno lottery proceeds (ORD. 44798), and multiple agreements to provide School Resource Officers and Associate School Resource Officers to Omaha Public Schools, Elkhorn Public Schools, Millard School District, and Westside Community Schools in the 2026–2027 school year, with reimbursement terms and cost ranges detailed by ordinance number.
Land use and zoning items scheduled for upcoming action include rezonings, overlay district boundary amendments, plats, subdivision agreements, and special use permits for projects such as Midwest Maintenance southeast of 29th and Q Streets, South Omaha Replat 36 northwest of Missouri Avenue and 20th Street, North Streams northeast of 202nd Avenue and N Street, Cedarhurst of Omaha northeast of 168th Street and Grand Avenue (including a proposed assisted living special use permit), and assisted living at 5117, 5123, and 5129 North 106th Street. Future readings will also cover a major amendment to a Planned Unit Development at 1999 Veterans Drive, a gift and lease agreement related to Central Library facilities, and a real estate purchase and sale agreement with Builders District III, LLC for property between 16th and 17th Streets and Mike Fahey and Cass Streets for $7,820,000.00.
According to the agenda, the council will begin its day with a pre-council meeting at 10:30 a.m. in the Jesse Lowe Conference Room to discuss agenda items, receive departmental updates as requested by councilmembers, and take one-minute citizen comments on items being considered at the 2 p.m. meeting. Both the pre-council session and the regular meeting are noticed as open meetings under Nebraska law, with copies of the Open Meeting Act available on site. The agenda notes that the council may go into executive session during both meetings to discuss labor negotiations, personnel matters, and litigation.
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