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The Cleveland County Excise Board held a special meeting on October 15, 2026, at 10:00 AM in the Cleveland County Office Building, Norman, OK. Chairman Chuck R. Thompson presided with Vice-Chairman Josh Edge and Member John Wullich present. The meeting was called to order after establishing a quorum. The board approved the Fiscal Year 2026/2027 city, town, and school budgets and tax levy millages, and made a statement about future oversight of receiving entities.
Note: The agenda states that notice of the meeting was properly posted on October 13, 2025. In the transcript, the meeting chair stated the posting date as October 13, 2025, which appears to be a verbal error given the meeting date of October 15, 2026.
Here. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. All right. Our uh for the purposes of our uh minutes, uh the meeting was properly posted on October the thirteenth, twenty twenty five. And uh first item of business is any public comments. No one's signed up. No one has signed up for any public comments on to our items of business, and the first item of business is to approve the fiscal year twenty-six, twenty-seven city, town, and school budgets, and those were previously presented and circulated to us via email uh over the last couple of weeks. So uh if there are any questions or comments about those budgets, this would be a good time that's a good question. I have none. And I have no other comments or questions about them, and so hearing none. Is there a motion to make a motion that we approve it? We have a motion to approve the fiscal year twenty-six, twenty-seven city, town, and school budgets as presented to this exercise board. I'll second that motion. Please call the roll. Thompson? Yes. Will it? Yes. All right, thank you. Uh item number two in our agenda is the approval of the fiscal year twenty-six twenty-seven tax levy millages. And again, those were previously circulated to us via email for our review prior to the meeting. And um, we have uh independently verified that all the millages are correct. Do I understand that? We've made that independent valuation. Yes, county clerk says yes. Uh, those tax levy millages are listed on the documents that we have approved. And so, are there any other questions or comments? No, I have none. No questions either from me. Is there a motion to approve? Yes, I make a motion. It's a motion to approve the fiscal year twenty six twenty-seven tax levy millages as presented to the excise board. Any questions or comments about that motion? Hearing none, please call a roll. Thompson? Yes. Will I? Yes. Motion carries, thank you. And on to board members' statements and announcements. I have none. Um I have a statement that might get in the minutes, and that's that uh the the excise board has some general questions regarding uh the uh uh receiving entities in the county, and and their uh the word this, but and and when they do and when they don't come to the exercise board, and we're gonna we're gonna look at that with the county clerk. So that's just a statement. And then item three is to adjourn. I make a motion to adjourn. I'll second the motion to adjourn. Please call a roll.