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The City of Omaha will take another baby step in its march of westward expansion with the 2016 annexation package approved Tuesday.

About 6,000 people in seven subdivisions on the city’s western fringe will wake up Aug. 24 as official citizens of Omaha. They live in the subdivisions that the Omaha City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to annex, as proposed by Mayor Jean Stothert.

There was no discussion of the proposal at the council meeting Tuesday.

The annexation, while the smallest in Stothert’s term as mayor, continues Omaha’s orderly growth in population and tax base without increasing taxes, City Councilwoman Aimee Melton said.

“It’s important that Omaha has growth,” she said. “That’s what you want.”

The move raises Omaha’s population to nearly 450,000, based on city estimates. The annexation also adds $456 million in valuation to the city’s property tax base.

The city projects that over the next 10 years, it will collect an additional $24 million in property tax revenue, more than $160,000 in sales taxes, $1.8 million in wheel taxes and $4.3 million in street and highway funds.