A look inside Omaha’s older L Street wastewater treatment plant in May 2019. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)
OMAHA — Jim Vokal told the Omaha City Council Tuesday that he hadn’t spoken before the body since he was an elected member back in 2009.
“So for an issue to bring me out of retirement, it must be significant,” said Vokal, now CEO of the Omaha-based Platte Institute, a public policy organization that advocates for Nebraska taxpayers.
Vokal stepped up to oppose a $411 million agreement that Mayor John Ewing Jr.’s administration wants with Missouri-based McCarthy Building Companies. The proposal represents the bulk of a roughly half-billion-dollar project to further expand and improve the Papillion Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility…