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16th Street Revitalization Committee
Chairperson: Roger Holthaus
Phone: 402.341.5095
Email: rholthaus@holthauslaw.com
This committee shall focus on residential and business safety and development issues regarding the revitalization of 16th Street,
through establishing collaborative efforts and activities with supporting organizations, and organized neighborhood groups and associations.
Celebrate Downtown Omaha Gala Committee
Chairperson: Paula Steenson
Phone: 402.346.3950
Email: ppresents@aol.com
This committee shall be responsible for the planning, arranging, organizing, soliciting, and promoting of a formal Gala event that
focuses on honoring persons that significantly contribute to downtown and serves as a key fundraiser. The Gala will be a biannual event.
Downtown Omaha, Inc. History Committee
Chairperson: Betty J. Davis
Phone: 402.455.9990
Email: director@omahahistory.org
This committee will serve as an archive of historical knowledge associated with the developing downtown Omaha community as well as
Downtown Omaha, Inc. The committee should be fashioned to educated DOI membership, the public, and the business community.
Governmental Committee
Chairperson: Steve Mulcahy
Phone: 402.345.3558
Email: smulcahy@carpenters-kc.org
This committee shall provide a means to monitor governmental impacts legislation, and development issues facing downtown.
This committee will serve as a liaison between state and local government and be an advocate on the behalf of DOI membership.
Holiday Lighting Festival Committee
Chairperson: Marc Nichols
Phone: 402.636.3613
Email: mnichols@oppd.com
This committee shall be responsible for planning, managing, organizing, and promoting the Holiday
Lights Festival for the Omaha/Council Bluffs Communities during the holiday season. This committee will collaborate
with national and local venues to produce a seasonable festive holiday lighting event that will promote the city of Omaha.
Marketing/Public Relations Committee
Chairperson: Dan Lombardo
Phone: 402.734.6850
Email: dlombardo@lamarhq.com
This committee shall be responsible for the design and evaluation of all marketing promotional material and communications
about Downtown Omaha, Inc. to and among all constituents. All such plans to accelerate understanding of the mission, goals,
objectives, advocacy, and support of Downtown Omaha, Inc. must be coordinated with and approved by the DOI Board.
Membership Committee
Chairperson: Linda Jensen
Phone: 402.990.6719
This committee shall be responsible for developing sponsorship levels of contributions,
recruiting potential members, soliciting and renewing memberships with DOI and promotions.
This committee will also provide a “calling committee” to assist with delinquent and lapsed memberships.
Parking Committee
Chairperson: Joan Baillon
Email: jbaillon@ci.omaha.ne.us
This committee shall be responsible for monitoring, reporting, and making parking recommendations
for existing and potential businesses in downtown Omaha. This committee shall network and
collaborate efforts with the City of Omaha and other organizations to develop solutions to the
parking problems that exist in downtown Omaha.
Programs/Networking
Chairperson: Ron Brown
Phone: 402.345.8383
Email: rbrown@jonesauto.com
The Program committee will scout for and invite potential guest speakers and presenters to present
on various issues pertaining to downtown at one of DOI General Member Meeting, which are held the
first Thursday of each month. The program committee will network for meeting space within the
Omaha community to promote community involvement, and promote the member meetings through forms of
advertisement. Program meetings should be fashioned to educate the public, the business community,
and involve organized neighborhood groups. The Networking committee will plan, organize, and host
networking opportunities to promote downtown Omaha among DOI membership. This committee should
focus on community outreach to encourage community involvement though networking sponsorship opportunities.
Downtown Omaha Inc and Central High Cleanup
Chairperson: Roger Humphries
Phone: 402.390.3180
Email: roger.l.humphries@usps.gov
Downtown Omaha Inc. and Central High School have worked together, which was a result of the City of Omaha, DOI,
and Central High meeting and coming together on a project that would involve students from CHS in
the downtown area in a positive way. The committee works with Central High School officials and
students to ensure that the cleanup goes as planned.
Central High School students gather at the school around 8:45 a.m. to pick up gloves and bags
supplied by Keep Omaha Beautiful. They canvas downtown Omaha for trash. Ollie the Trolley
volunteers to pick-up and drop-off students/volunteers as they move through the downtown area.
Trash is left on street corners, which are then picked up by members of Carpenters Union Local 444.
The trash is taken to locations on the Creighton Campus who allows DOI/Central High to use their
dumpsters. At 11:30 a.m., all students/volunteers meet back at Central High School for pizzas
donated by Old Chicago Pizza located in the Old Market.
Residents Development Committee
This committee shall be responsible for extending DOI membership invitations to the downtown
residential community through incentive promotion offers. This committee will seek to involve the
downtown residential community in activities and opportunities that DOI provide, thus making downtown
Omaha a better place to live, work, and spend leisure time.
Special Projects Committee
This Committee shall be responsible for the planning, organizing, hosting, and/or conducting of
special projects that help accelerate the understanding of DOI’s mission, goals, and objectives
through fundraising and community involvement efforts. All such efforts must be coordinated with
and approved by the DOI Board. All special project fundraising proceeds will benefit the Downtown
Omaha, Inc. Foundation.
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