Oklahoma City Public Schools Packet Summary — 2026-07-27
Meeting: Special Meeting of the OKCPS Board of Education
Oklahoma City Public Schools is scheduled to consider a short consent-focused agenda covering current and prior-year financial encumbrances, a personnel report, and a fiscal year 2027 school security agreement with the City of Oklahoma City. The agenda places all four substantive items under the consent agenda.
Key Items on the Agenda
- FY 2027 encumbrances: The Board is scheduled to consider the district's current fiscal year encumbrance list. The supporting report covers encumbrances dated July 10 through July 22, 2026, across general, building, federal, school nutrition and bond funds, with a reported total of $16,567,480.18.
- Prior FY 2026 encumbrances: The consent agenda also includes prior-year encumbrances. The supporting report lists two June 30, 2026 General Fund items totaling $19,806.78: $18,271.02 for medical services from the Oklahoma Healthcare Authority and $1,535.76 for general supplies from Preferred Shipping Inc.
- Personnel report: The Board is scheduled to consider a personnel report ending July 23, 2026. It documents new hires and promotions as well as separations across certified, support and central-office/administrative positions.
- School Resource Officer agreement: The Board is scheduled to consider a FY 2027 contractual agreement with the City of Oklahoma City for Oklahoma City Police Department officers to provide school security services.
Major Financial Items
$16.57 Million Current-Year Encumbrance List
The FY 2027 encumbrance report totals $16,567,480.18 and includes a wide range of district operating, facilities, instructional, nutrition, technology and other expenditures.
Several of the larger individual encumbrances include:
- $7,329,790 to Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. for electricity.
- $1,749,911.53 to the City of Oklahoma City Water Utility for water/sewer service.
- $686,228.30 to Tiger Natural Gas, Inc. for natural gas.
- $575,105 to Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. for natural gas.
- $530,000 to Brown and Brown Insurance Services for property insurance.
- $430,098.81 to Edmond Music, Inc. for instruments.
The School Nutrition Services Fund also includes substantial food and operational purchases, including $2,075,515 to Hiland Dairy Foods, $502,350 to Brady Industries of Kansas, $353,000 to Frontier Produce Inc./Fresh Edge, and $300,940 to Bimbo Bakeries USA.
Prior-Year Encumbrances
The separate FY 2026 report contains $19,806.78 in encumbrances dated June 30, 2026. Both listed expenditures carry the district's "AGR" action code, which the packet defines as purchases of maintenance agreements, legal agreements and contracts not requiring board approval.
School Security Agreement
Up to $2.37 Million for Oklahoma City Police Services
The proposed FY 2027 agreement between the school district and the City of Oklahoma City would provide Oklahoma City Police Department personnel for school security and law-enforcement duties. The agreement calls for 17 officers at designated high schools and middle schools, along with two lieutenants supervising OCPD personnel assigned under the contract.
The proposed compensation is structured as:
- Up to $2,111,375.40 for secondary-school security officers and supervisors, based on 185 school days at a daily rate of $11,412.84.
- An estimated $250,795 for before/after-school and extracurricular overtime.
- An estimated $8,000 for security at School Board meetings.
- A total FY 2027 contract amount not to exceed $2,370,170.40.
The agreement would take effect July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, and either party could terminate it with 30 days' written notice.
Officer Oversight and Incident Provisions
The proposed agreement includes provisions governing the relationship between the district and OCPD. The parties would collaborate on engagement guidelines, while OCPD would retain authority over the appropriate law-enforcement response and decisions about officer adherence to those guidelines.
The agreement also provides for sharing appropriately redacted video footage involving students and responses to resistance for internal administrative purposes, subject to FERPA and other applicable laws. OCPD would be expected to promptly notify district administrators about incidents involving an officer's response to resistance against a student or district employee on school property or at a school-related event.
The district could request reassignment of an assigned officer when it has reasonable and articulable cause to believe continued placement would be detrimental to the school environment, student-officer relationships or the district's educational mission. The agreement provides for a replacement within 28 days, subject to officer availability, with a proportional reduction in the district's compensation obligation if an officer is not replaced.
Personnel
The consent agenda includes the Personnel Report ending July 23, 2026. The report documents personnel activity across schools and district operations, including certified employees, support employees and central-office/administrative or professional-technical positions.
Among the new hires and promotions shown in the report are teachers in multiple subject areas, school counselors, special-education staff, school administrators, paraprofessionals, security personnel and other district employees. The report separately documents employee separations and the reasons recorded for those departures.
What to Watch at the Meeting
- Consent agenda: All four substantive matters are presented as consent-agenda items, including the two encumbrance lists, personnel report and school security contract.
- Security contract: The proposed OCPD agreement combines a significant financial commitment with provisions addressing officer staffing, overtime, incident reporting, video sharing, engagement guidelines and district requests for officer reassignment.
- Large operating commitments: The FY 2027 encumbrance list totals more than $16.5 million, with utility expenses representing several of its largest individual entries.
- Staffing activity: The personnel report reflects extensive hiring, promotion and separation activity as the district approaches the 2026–27 school year.
The official public-body source for these meeting materials is the Oklahoma City Public Schools BoardDocs meeting packet.
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