Appropriations Committee Meeting

Appropriations Committee Meeting
Osage Nation Capitol Building
104 W. Main, Pawhuska
September 5, 2023
Immediately Following Session to 2:00 p.m.

Revised Agenda

1.    Call to Order

2.    Roll Call

3.    Prayer

4.    Approval of Minutes

5.    Budget Analyst Report

6.    Indirect Cost Agreement

7.    FY23 Financials – Tribal, Non-tribal, ARPA and IDC

8.    Revolving Fund Balance

9.    FY24 New positions and pay increases

10.    Fringe costs

11.    Self-funded Health

12.    Lunch

13.    ONCA 23-27, An Act to authorize the amount of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) to Osage, LLC for fencing at the heliport; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Stabler)

14.    ONCA 23-33, An Act to authorize and appropriate two million two hundred thousand dollars ($2,200,000) to the Executive Branch for site construction at the Wah-Zha-Zhi National Cemetery; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Hamilton)

15.    ONCA 23-57, An Act to authorize and appropriate the amount of two hundred thirty five thousand dollars ($235,000) to the Executive Branch for the purchase of an ambulance for the Shidler, Oklahoma volunteer ambulance service; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Lemon)

16.    ONCA 23-81, An Act to authorize and appropriate two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the Permanent Fund; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)

17.    ONCA 23-82, An Act to provide an appropriation to the Legislative Branch of the Osage Nation for fiscal year 2024 in the amount of two million six hundred forty three thousand seven hundred nineteen dollars ($2,643,719); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Shaw)

18.    ONCA 23-84, An Act to authorize the IDC Departments to expend monies appropriated through the FY2024 appropriations bills; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)

19.    ONCA 23-86, An Act to authorize and appropriate the amount of eight million four hundred eighteen thousand nine hundred thirty dollars ($8,418,930) to the Capital Asset Fund for a new Legislative Branch building; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)

20.    ONCA 23-88, An Act to authorize and appropriate fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Osage and Pawnee Counties as a grant to benefit members of the Osage Nation and the community; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Shaw)

21.    ONCA 23-89, An Act to authorize and appropriate one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to the Morgan's Corner Fire Protection District; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Goodfox)

22.    ONCA 23-91, An Act to authorize and appropriate a supplemental appropriation in the amount of seven million dollars ($7,000,000) to the Capital Asset Fund for the purchase of land, design, engineering and construction of a funeral services facility within the territorial boundaries of the Osage Nation; and to establish an alternate effective date. (Maker)

23.    ONCA 23-95, An Act to amend the Osage Fair Minimum Wage Act at 19 ONC § 2-103 to raise the minimum wage for Osage Nation employees to $15.75 an hour beginning in 2024. (Potts)

24.    ONCA 23-103, An Act to amend ONCA 21-95 to authorize appropriation modifications and supplemental appropriations to the Executive Branch in non-Tribal funds reducing the overall amount by one hundred forty five thousand one hundred dollars ($145,100); and to establish an alternate effective date. (Revard)

25.    ONCR 23-19, A Resolution to approve a request for a five percent (5%) Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Osage Nation Merited Employees for Fiscal Year 2024. (Revard)

26.    ONCR 23-22, A Resolution to support the Minerals Council’s request to the Principal Chief of the Osage Nation to request the balance of the IIM account in the name of the Osage Nation to make it available for appropriation to the Minerals Council. (BigHorse)

27.    Adjournment