MAYOR/COUNCIL PRIORITIES
2025/2026
How do City leaders decide the budget plans that shape our city's future?
It all begins with a discussion of priorities at the annual Mayor/Council Budget Retreat.
These priorities then inform the City's fiscal year budget. The next fiscal year runs from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, and is the City’s financial roadmap, or spending plan, for the year.
City Councilors and the Mayor met in January to discuss the upcoming year's priorities, which cover four categories: Homelessness, Public Safety, Economic Development, and Children, Youth & Families.
HOMELESSNESS
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Implementing 3H Task Force recommendations
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Increasing housing infrastructure
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Preventing homelessness
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Preparing for extreme weather
PUBLIC SAFETY
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Improving Tulsa animal welfare services
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Increasing Tulsa Police recruitment & retention efforts
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Implementing Fines & Fees Working Group recommendations
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Strengthening relationships with Tribal Nations
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Using more alternative response methods (technology, ART, 911/COPES)
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Meeting national standards for ‘Safest Big City in America’ goal
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Increasing access to infrastructure
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Increasing customer communication in developing solutions
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Reducing internal regulatory barriers
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Focusing on Route 66 Centennial and tourism
CHILDREN, YOUTH & FAMILIES
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Improving cradle to career outcomes through school readiness, early literacy, middle school math and science initiatives, high school completion and postsecondary entry/completion
