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Council reviews three supplemental‑appropriation items including $350,000 donation to expand shelter kennels
Summary
City staff presented three budget amendments: a $350,000 donation from Tulsa Community Foundation to add kennels to a shelter project, $25,000 from the George Kaiser Foundation for an Urban Leaders Fellowship, and a $200,000 appropriation tied to the district attorney's revolving drug fund for police equipment and subscriptions.
City staff briefed councilmembers on three supplemental appropriations proposed for the fiscal year 2025–26 budget.
A $350,000 donation for shelter kennels
Staff reported receipt of a $350,000 donation from the Tulsa Community Foundation designated for a city shelter project. According to the staff summary, the funds would pay for two modular “pods” that would add 42 kennels to the project. Staff said the larger project has approximately $13.8 million in existing funding from federal/state/county and ARPA sources and that the donation is intended to cover items not eligible under those funding streams. The donation will be brought into the public‑safety/nonfederal grant subfund as a recognized revenue and requires a supplemental appropriation.
$25,000 for Urban Leaders Fellowship
Corey Wiseman of the budget office reported a separate supplemental appropriation of $25,000 in support of the Urban Leaders Fellowship, a mayoral initiative. The transcript states the funds were awarded by the George Kaiser Foundation and will be tracked in fund 1705.
$200,000 for Tulsa Police Department DA drug fund
Staff outlined an ordinance to appropriate $200,000 recognized from grant revenues expected from the district attorney’s office into a public‑safety nonfederal grant subfund for the Tulsa Police Department. The staff presentation said $18,000 of the total comes from asset forfeitures handled by neighboring counties and will be used for wireless communications billing; the remaining $184,000 will finance six line items listed in the staff packet, including a subscription GPS service described as “TacticTrack.” Councilmembers asked staff clarifying questions about what the subscription covers; staff described it as a GPS subscription service used for tracking units and assets.
Next steps: Each item was presented as an ordinance to amend the budget; the meeting transcript records presentation and Q&A but does not record final council adoption votes in the excerpt provided.
