$17M additional drought relief funding approved

Murdock’s Minutes

 


The final week of the 2023 regular session was extremely busy. Once the education agreement was reached, that cleared the way for negotiators to complete work on the rest of the budget. I will talk a bit more about budget highlights in the coming weeks, but one of the items I want to mention that we approved was additional drought relief funding.

Despite being blessed with some recent rainfall, it isn’t nearly enough to offset the devastating impact of the prolonged drought. Northwestern Oklahoma counties continue to be listed as being in severe, extreme or exceptional drought as of May 2...



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