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Tulsa council approves utility bond and budget transfers, moves opioid-settlement funds toward homelessness programs

5610266 · August 20, 2025
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Summary

The council approved a Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority bond resolution, several budget ordinances and transfers including $4,026,700 moved within the Walmart opioid settlement subfund, and budget changes intended to accelerate homelessness programs; public speakers and service providers addressed the council in support and criticism.

At the 5:00 p.m. Tulsa City Council meeting the council approved a resolution allowing the trustees of the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority (TMUA) to issue up to $21,760,000 in utility revenue bonds (Series 2025C) to fund capital improvements, and approved multiple budget ordinances and internal transfers including actions intended to direct settlement and pandemic-relief funds toward homelessness and related services.

The TMUA resolution (item 4b) passed on a roll call vote with an emergency clause also approved by roll call. The council also approved, without individual reading, a set of mayor’s items that included utility-easement donations by the Oklahoma State University Medical Authority needed for infrastructure work at…

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