2026-09-28 - City Council

Summary

Built from the official minutes. No video is posted, so there is no transcript or timing. Meeting called to order and adjourned at the times shown.

Regular meeting 5:32 to 6:42 PM; all seven members present (Weber presiding, Beckius, Bowers, Carlson, Duden, Shobe, Washington).
Lobo City Mex Liquor License: license and manager recommended for denial 7-0 because the store is about 33 feet from residential property (100 feet required).
Narcotics Task Force Agreement with the Nebraska State Patrol approved 7-0.
Lincoln Lutheran Parking Lot and Arbor Road Parkland Annexation passed on third reading, all 7-0.
First readings: Wilderness Heights Townhome Density Amendment, Chateau Yankee Hill Parking Reduction, Sanitary Sewer Revenue Bonds ($39.3 million), and a long list of items for the next week's hearing.

Barber argued for the license; Dush measured about 33 feet from homes; Washington said denial would not prejudice a future application.

First reading: density from 279 to 385 single family dwellings, 1,516 total units.

Student appointees to the Mayor's Multicultural Advisory Committee and the Commission on Women and Gender approved 7-0, along with two reappointments to the Multicultural Advisory Committee (not named here).
Liquor: manager approval for a ballroom, a special designated license for a pub event on October 24 (both 7-0).
Claims report approved 7-0; the largest settled claim was $68,463. A resident spoke on a denied tree-damage claim; the city attorney's office said forestry records show no earlier complaints.
Municipal Code supplements second reading; Aging Partners lease for Geneva passed third reading 7-0 (ordinance 21932).
Cornhusker Highway construction engineering supplement approved 7-0; hearing set October 26 for a wastewater special assessment district in the Hillcrest Heights neighborhood.
Open microphone had no speakers.