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Tulsa Public Schools board approves $820.3 million amended 2025–26 budget
Summary
The Tulsa Public Schools Board approved a midyear amendment to the 2025–26 budget that lists $820,301,515 in estimated revenues and $747,630,653 in expenditures; the measure passed unanimously. The board also received a Quarter 2 financial update and approved district consent items, including a $150,000 authorization to pay bond election administration costs.
The Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education approved a midyear amended 2025–26 school budget and financing plan at its Feb. 2 meeting, adopting an amended revenue estimate of $820,301,515 and expenditures totaling $747,630,653. The motion to approve the amended budget was moved by Board Member Calvin Moniz, seconded by Stacey Woolley and carried 5-0.
Interim Chief Financial Officer Dwayne Thompson presented the midyear budget and answered questions from board members during the meeting. Thompson also presented a Quarter 2 financial update that the board discussed as staff responded to inquiries about midyear variances and projections.
The board handled a package of routine consent items that included venue agreements for senior proms—Central High School and McLain High School at Tulsa Botanic Garden, and East Central High School at Agora Event Center—and administrative amendments to existing vendor contracts. The board also approved authorization to pay the Tulsa County Election Board up to $150,000 to cover administration costs for a bond election scheduled April 7, 2026, with the district expressing intent to reimburse those costs from future bond proceeds subject to later board approval.
Board members also approved technology- and procurement-related items on the agenda. The board approved entering contracts for internet and wide-area network services with Cox Communications, noting the internet contract (20 Gbps demarcations) and certain renewals will be subject to board ratification in July 2026. Other routine staffing and program agreements, including a memorandum of understanding with YWCA Tulsa to provide after-school swim lessons for Hale Middle School (14 students per week, February–May), were approved under consent.
The board will consider any subsequent budget or bond-related actions at future meetings; its next regular meeting is scheduled for Feb. 23, 2026.