Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett tells KRMG the city's in "great shape" financially, and he's very pleased with the budget he proposed Thursday to the City Council.

He said he built the budget after extensive consultation with the Council, as well as carefully considering feedback from a survey of citizens, which was also used to build the current budget.

The Mayor says he wanted to continue spending the city's money "based upon a citizen survey, what the citizens feel is in the best interests of the city, that they want to see our government do."

"It's a very good budget, it's conservative," he added. "It recognizes that we need to add more police officers, that we need to add more reserve officers. First time in four years that we've gonna have a reserve officer class."

And the Mayor told KRMG he has another first for his administration about which he's quite pleased: "We're also going to add some money to our rainy day fund, $2 million."

"The future looks good, we're in great shape in Tulsa."

District 2 Councilor Jeannie Cue said the "jury's out" but she generally felt positive about what the Mayor has proposed.

She added that she has a lot of questions, and the Council will have a considerable amount of information to digest before it approves a final budget.

"We're new, and we're gonna have lots and lots of questions," she told KRMG.

The proposed budget, which totals $703.1 million, would be the largest in the city's history.