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Votes at a glance: Budget board approves routine transfers, appoints handbook alternate; tables disputed item tied to jail funding
Summary
The Oklahoma County Budget Board approved the consent docket, several routine transfers, and an appointment to the handbook committee; the board tabled/struck a proposed 4% budget-change item pending Budget Evaluation Team review.
The Oklahoma County Budget Board approved the consent docket and minutes and subsequently approved several routine transfers and an appointment.
Among the routine actions, the board approved transfers to cover an employee appreciation program and to move budgeted funds into HR health and safety accounts. The board also approved appointing Jennifer Bowen as a first alternate to the handbook committee with Rick Buchanan continuing as the primary member.
On a more contentious item, a proposal to freeze next year's budgets by using September supplement numbers and reducing next year's budgets by 4% was brought forward; several commissioners objected that the item needed BET review and moved to table or strike the item. The board voted to table/strike the measure and to defer further action pending BET's recommendations.
Votes in the meeting were taken by voice; the transcript records aye/no voice votes but does not provide a roll-call tally for each member in the transcript provided.
