Board seats representing Districts 2, 5, 6 and 11 on the Oklahoma Municipal League Board of Directors are up for election this year and will be voted on at the 2023 OML Annual Business Meeting, Thursday, September 21, 2023, which is held during the OML Annual Conference in Oklahoma City. Any municipal officials of any of the OML member municipalities that are interested in these positions should submit a letter of interest, resume and a resolution from your municipality supporting your nomination to the OML offices. Deadline is Wednesday, August 9, 2023. 

See the following links for more information:

District 2

District 5 

District 6

District 11

New Officials Institutes have been scheduled for 2023:

• October 26th at the Woodward Conference Center
• November 30th in McAlester
• January 27, 2024 in Stillwater
• March 7, 2024 in Lawton



Be sure to register soon to reserve your seat. Everyone is welcome to attend! More Information and Registration

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (ODEMHS) is now accepting applications for the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. Municipal, county, and tribal governments, education institutions, and state agencies are eligible to apply for grants to address cybersecurity risks and threats to information systems. 

The grant funding is provided to ODEMHS by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help improve the security of critical infrastructure and resilience of the services that state, local, and tribal governments provide to their communities. 

Applications will be considered by the State of Oklahoma Cybersecurity Committee, which meets quarterly. Applications must be submitted by 3 p.m. on September 8 to be considered at the September committee meeting. A local cost share may be required.  

The goals and objectives for the grant program are to implement cyber governance and planning, assess and evaluate systems and capabilities, mitigate prioritized cybersecurity issues, and build a cybersecurity workforce. A strong application will include an emphasis on planning, assessments, monitoring, and/or training.

More information about the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, including the application form, is available online here.

Registration is now open for the 2M2L 1-Day Training in Lawton. This training is in collaboration with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Alcohol Beverage Law Enforcement (ABLE) Commission and will be held August 10th from 8:30am-4:30pm. The 1-day training is geared towards local law enforcement and covers information on updated alcohol laws in Oklahoma, alcohol compliance and bar checks, special event techniques, and controlled party dispersal. A total of 7.25 CLEET hours will be provided.

The training will be held at the Lawton Police Department Public Safety Center Training Room, 100 S Railroad St, Lawton, OK 73501.

To register, please follow this link to the ODMHSAS Training Institute and search for “1-Day 2M2L Law Enforcement Training.” Please note, if you have not previously registered for a training course on the new Learning Management System, you will need to first create an account.

The Oklahoma Water Resources Board is pleased to announce the first in a series of stakeholder input meetings, in locations across the state, focused on the 2025 update of Oklahoma’s Comprehensive Water Plan (OCWP). Participants will have an opportunity in this and subsequent meetings, to engage and voice their ideas on current and future water-related challenges and solutions, both in their region and statewide, review state policy and water reliability initiatives resulting from stakeholder recommendations of the 2012 OCWP, as well as learn about the results of the recent water supply and demand forecasts and infrastructure investment needs surveys. This round will build on input from several focused discussions held to initiate the scope of work for the 2025 OCWP and will generally follow the same agenda in each of five locations around the state. More Information