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Council advances a package of ordinances, including stormwater and utility rate changes
Summary
The Tulsa City Council advanced a broad suite of ordinances and budget amendments—covering stormwater service charges (a 12% increase), solid-waste and water/sewer rates, and multiple fiscal-year 2025 budget adjustments—by roll call vote, adopting most items with emergency clauses where noted.
At the meeting the Tulsa City Council approved multiple ordinances and budget amendments covering capital projects, utility rates and departmental appropriations. The council advanced items bundled across the agenda and approved items 4b through 4l, 5a and 5b, and the set of ordinances listed as 7a through 7s (with 7q through 7s carrying emergency clauses as read into the record).
Key items recorded on the agenda and read into the record included: - A stormwater sewer service charge rate increase of 12% (item 7h) described in the reading as raising the rate "from 12.22 to 13.69." - Ordinances to amend solid waste collection and disposal rates and deposits (item 7i). - Amendments to waterworks and sewerage rates and transfers between TMUA (Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority) water and sewer accounts (items 7j and 7m). - Multiple fiscal-year 2025 budget amendments for public safety training, forensic DNA backlog reduction, capital outlays for public works and other departmental transfers (items listed across 6, 7 and mayor’s items).
Speakers on related agenda items included Beau Bradley, who addressed stormwater concerns and described how past rate increases and retroactive bill adjustments had affected property owners; and John Huffines, who spoke in favor of several mayoral budget items and transfers (he referenced the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority and grant-funded programs).
Councilors moved to approve the package of items by roll call; no dissenting "no" votes were recorded in the roll calls announced on the record for the omnibus approvals. One councilor was mentioned as recusing on a particular rights-of-way occupancy management ordinance, and that recusal was reflected in the roll call procedure on that item.
The council forwarded several rezoning and plat items for future action and also directed that items 6a through 6g be forwarded to the next council meeting for final action. Text of specific ordinances and rate schedules will appear in the official ordinance publications; the council did not read all ordinance language aloud during the meeting but cited the items and associated budget numbers.
Because many items were adopted as an omnibus package, the meeting record contains the roll calls and the item numbers; departments and affected parties should consult the city clerk's office for the full ordinance texts, fee schedules and effective dates.
