- The Omaha City Council votes Tuesday on Mayor John Ewing’s nearly $1.7B proposed 2027 budget
- The budget would pay for addition city staff at the Omaha Police Department, the parks department and across the library system
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) – The Omaha City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Mayor John Ewing’s proposed 2027 budget of nearly $1.7 billion.
The budget would help the police force reach its full capacity of 906 officers and increase staffing at the Parks Department and Library System. Ewing said increasing staff was a priority when he unveiled the budget last month.
The vote comes one week after the City Council voted to put 2 bond projects on the ballot this fall — to build a youth sports complex in West Omaha and a new OFD-OPD headquarters in Central Omaha…