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Mayor Dewey Bartlett said the City of Tulsa’s sales tax revenue for mid-October to mid-November as reported by the Oklahoma Tax Commission, totaled $19,110,236.

That is about one-half percent above budget estimates and 4.1 percent above the same period last year.  For the year-to date, the City has received $113,323,115 in sales tax revenues, or about $8.85 million more than for the same period last year.  That is one-quarter percent above last year.

The Tulsa City Council approves a $110,000 settlement in a lawsuit. It stems from a fatal shooting involving a police officer. It happened in 2009.

The council approved the settlement after Assistant City Attorney Gerald Bender said it would have cost up to $60,000 to provide expert testimony at trial.

Brandi Cox’s son  was injured in the shooting and  husband, Steven Paul Crowels, was killed.

Authorities say officer Jay Chiarito-Mazzarella fired on the vehicle after the driver put the car in reverse and tried to run him over.

District 5 Councilor Karen Gilbert and Administrative Chief Jeremy Moore announced a new partnership this afternoon at the City Council Public Works Committee meeting. The Tulsa City Council and the Tulsa Fire Department are hosting a school supply drive to benefit Tulsa Public Schools starting Wednesday.

Families spend about $600 on average each year on school supplies, including the cost of back-to-school clothes, according to a study by the National Retail Federation. Gilbert said the City Council and the Fire Department are trying to help ease the burden.

The City of Tulsa has a new budget. The spending plan is just over $703-million. The document follows the budget plan submitted by Mayor Bartlett at the end of April.

It includes two-million dollars stashed away in the city’s new savings account. Council Chair G-T Bynum says that is a good thing. He says when Tulsa faces another economic downturn, the city will have a cash  cushion. It is a city version of the state’s rainy day fund.

Some councilors want more money for city employee salaries instead of one-time stipends. The council will review that at mid-year.

A new Tulsa city budget must be in place in less than 10-days. The city council is expected to vote tomorrow night on Mayor Bartlett’s $703-million plan.

The mayor has added several hundred-thousand dollars to the budget to step-up code enforcement in neighborhoods. The infusion of cash should help clean-up the city’s blighted neighborhoods. The plan also calls for additional dollars to be spent on graffiti removal.

The Council meeting will be at 6PM tomorrow night.

We now know who the candidates will be in the Tulsa City council’s first-ever non-partisan election:

District #-1: Twan Jones will try again to knock off incumbent  councilor Jack Henderson

District #-4:  Blake Ewing is up for another term. He was the only one to file in District #-4

District #-7:  Arianna Moore filed in opposition to incumbent Thomas Mansur.