Residents are invited to provide input on Oklahoma City’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2024-2025.

Submit feedback using the engagement tools below. You can also text comments to (405) 252-1053 or email them to budgetcomments@okc.gov.

Budget adoption is scheduled for June 4, which is before the state’s statutory deadline.

The City Council meetings can be watched live and recorded on the City’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/cityofokc.

Resources

• Annual resident survey (PDF)
• Performance data
• Council priorities

Proposed budget overview

Because of a forecasted slowing of the national economy, the Police Department and Fire Department were directed to propose a .75% budget reduction, and most other City departments proposed a 2% reduction.

A $15.8 million investment in employee wages to keep up with the market and inflation also contributed to the budget reduction.

“The forecast for FY25’s General Fund revenue is based on just over 1.5% sales tax growth, which is about half of the normal growth rate,” City Manager Craig Freeman said. “With expenses growing faster than revenues, we needed to make adjustments where we could to reduce costs and balance the budget.”

Budget Overview

• The operating budget, which pays for day-to-day operations, is $918 million.
• The proposed budget includes funding for 5,117 full-time positions, an increase of nine from FY 24.

Fire Department

The Fire Department proposes adding 20 positions, equipment and supplies to launch a Crisis Response Program. 70% of the program will be funded by the General Fund and 30% by an opioid settlement.

Fire also proposed adding three senior dispatch positions and $800,000 for training and technology funded through the Fire Sales Tax.

Police Department

Police proposed deleting three civilian positions, reducing $1.19 million in miscellaneous line items and adding $700,000 for supplies and equipment in the Public Safety Sales Tax.

Municipal Court Department

Deletes four positions: a probation officer, officer clerk, office coordinator, and quality control coordinator and adds two customer service representatives.

Public Works

The Public Works Department proposed to delete the following positions: administrative coordinator, safety analyst, civil engineer II, concrete finisher and reduce their asphalt budget by $217,136.

Development Services

Deletes three positions: provisional code inspector, unit operations leader and business intelligence specialist.

Public Transportation and Parking This department proposed privatizing Spokies for a savings of $311,680. This deletes a Spokies position. They also proposed adding an administrative specialist for RTA (Regional Transit Authority) and added $1.9 million in funding for maintenance, operating, overtime and contracts.

Utilities

Utilities proposed adding a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system analyst funded by their contract with Tinker Air Force Base. They also proposed moving $1.7 million of operating funds for the Root and FOG program and $200,000 for cell phone service and equipment to the Utilities Trust.

Parks and Recreation

Parks proposed removing weekend cleaning service at reservable pavilions ($61,165), repurposing Minnis Lakeview Center ($120,959) and repurposing Shilling Center ($172,213). They proposed adding three positions and repair and maintenance funds for Woodson Park Sports Complex, $632,175.

General Services

Deletes a vacant skilled trades worker position, reduces the City’s fuel budget by $236,000 and continues to fund $6.76 million the CIP (Capital Improvement Program) maintenance of facilities and vehicles.

Information Technology

IT proposed adding a systems support specialist II funded by Airports, adds funding for contract increases ($645,023) and reduces various licensing and wireless services ($408,000)

Finance

Finance proposed deleting three positions: office coordinator, administrative coordinator and municipal accountant 1 and adding a senior buyer funded by the Police Department.

Municipal Counselor’s Office

Proposed adding an assistant municipal counselor funded by Utilities.

Other proposed increases · $1.2 million to implement recommendations from the Law Enforcement Policy Task Force and Homelessness Taskforce · MAPS 4 Program fund budget increase from $225.3 to $367.6 million

· $42 million for continued implementation of ARPA and Emergency Rental Assistance 2 Program.

Sales tax reports

Sales tax is the primary source of revenue for the City of OKC's General Fund, which pays for the City's day-to-day operations. Use tax is also an important source of revenue. See our taxes page for more information. The reports are prepared monthly.

Five Year Capital Improvement Plan

Capital improvement plans line out how the City of OKC will support infrastructure improvements.

• Adopted 2023-2027 Five Year Capital Improvement Plan
• Adopted 2021-2025 Five Year Capital Improvement Plan