TULSA — Officials with Tulsa Health, Mental Health Association of Oklahoma, Tulsa County and City of Tulsa provided a coronavirus update today.
Mayor G.T. Bynum announced today during a coronavirus update news conference that the city is implementing furloughs for positions funded by the City's "general fund".
This does not include police, fire, 911 and utilities, like water, trash and sewer, according to a City of Tulsa press release.
The furloughs will begin the week of May 3, 2020, and will last through the week of December 26, 2020.
According to a City of Tulsa press release, " Furloughs will begin the week of May 3, 2020, and last through the week of December 26, 2020. Furlough days will be taken every Friday afternoon in half-day increments (four hours)...Mayor Bynum and the Mayor’s Office staff will take 10 percent reductions in pay. Furloughs will be re-evaluated in December 2020."
To watch the news conference in its entirety, watch the video above.
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