posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 10:07 AM
by
klehan
Omaha, NE, May Fine for False Alarms
Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle will introduce a false fire alarm fee, eliminate support for the city's convention and visitor's bureau and increase parking fees to help balance the city's 2009 budget.
Suttle announced the changes at a news conference Wednesday. But those measures will only cover part of the predicted $5 million shortfall in 2009 and an $11 million shortfall in 2010.
Suttle says the city should be able to cover a little more than $1 million of the shortfall with the changes he announced.
But Suttle says the city will have to consider a tax increase this year if its labor unions won't agree to a freeze on wages.