The Cleveland County Budget Board met on May 26, 2026 at 10:30 AM in Norman, OK to consider the FY2026/2027 Estimate of Needs, several resolutions, numerous fund transfers, error corrections, and updates. The board approved minutes from April 27, 2026 and heard no public comments. After presentations from department heads, the board accepted the estimate of needs (not a final budget approval) and approved resolutions for capital reserve and surplus allocations, along with multiple fund transfers and error corrections.
Note: The transcript is partially garbled; some amounts and item numbers were clarified by cross-referencing the agenda.
Yeah, discussion possible action regarding one minutes for April point seven, one point. I'll make a motion to a motion. Excuse Yes. Yes. How it yes? Yes. Cleveland. I Williams. Yes. Richard. Yes. Mission carry. Uh public comment. No one signed up. Items of the business. Uh item number two discussion possible action regarding review. That's completely that part six seven. I think it's right. Okay, Cough. Um court clerk's office is requesting two million two hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents. It's a significant increase over last year. Um when comparing the county numbers, I have twenty-two employees to make another forty thousand and those twenty-two employees to forty thousand dollars and then raises for everyone else, significantly smaller for everyone else, but those were my big ones. Um in that I also included um painting of some of the office. Uh anything we may do need in the office collections have gone significantly down over the last two years based on legislation that's occurred. So typically we bring in about a hundred thousand, hundred and twenty thousand on our M and O, and that's been reduced significantly. So my budget. Any questions? Okay. Sure. I'm gonna present the county clerk's general fund, the equalization board and the audit. The auditors, so the county clerks, our total brand is gonna be two million six hundred and sixty-nine sixteen hundred dollars and four cents. Um this will include I have decided this year I'm going to do my um personal performance bonuses, it's going to go into out of my cash, my capital outlay cash and my uh to okay. Travel, capital outlay, and performance is all kind of come out of my cash accounts this year. Um I moved over and in my um in my budget. I have put in I think my budget's a little bit different than it was last year, not much difference, but there's a little bit of an increase, and that's because I have the newness in the grandness in my personal services with all of the help that we have people coming in and helping us get this program going smoothly. It's just you know, we've had to have to allow for that. Um a vacant position that I have that I need to fill, and then I have um a payout for one retirement and put it in that um that's pretty much it for my budget. Um we have the equalization board's budget, it's just the flat twelve thousand dollars, and that's just kind of what it's always. Um that's for the fees, and then we have the auditors, and that is a set amount at 285,420. Okay, yeah. Uh Commissioner Brissom, do you want to have a excuse me, take it? Go ahead. So on your general fund, you're actually lowering it, correct? Yes. So it's actually going down. I'm looking at the summer sheet on the front here. It shows where you're uh 112,000 or so. Yes. But it doesn't show that it's a loss and they got problems. Right.