Cleveland County boards to weigh larger ARPA awards, community safety fund proposal Monday
The Budget Board meets at 10:30 a.m. and the county commissioners at 1 p.m. on Oct. 26.
NORMAN - Cleveland County's Budget Board will consider more than doubling a federal pandemic-relief award to the Moore Public Schools Foundation's Bridges of Moore project, from $225,000 to $467,000, at its 10:30 a.m. meeting Monday, Oct. 26, according to the board's agenda.
The board will also consider raising the American Rescue Plan Act award for Loveworks Leadership programming from $100,000 to $194,975. The agenda does not say why either award is growing.
At 1 p.m., the Board of County Commissioners is set to take up the county's fiscal 2027 proposal for County Community Safety Investment Funds. It lists five projects: a coordinated response to unhoused residents, treatment for Treatment Court participants and indigent residents who don't qualify for Medicaid, help for adult Treatment Court participants, mobile crisis services, and expanded education, employment and housing opportunities. The agenda item does not list dollar amounts.
Commissioners will also consider a $75,560.19 cyber insurance payment, splitting $79,147.31 in September alcoholic beverage tax among six towns, including $49,638.06 for Norman and $24,346.01 for Moore, and lighting the courthouse green Nov. 4-11 for veterans.
Source: Board of County Commissioners agenda, Oct. 26, 2026; Budget Board agenda, Oct. 26, 2026; Cleveland County meetings calendar.