Meeting Dates:  November 16 – 20, 2026

Venue:  Okana Resort & Indoor Waterpark

Location:  639 First Americans Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73129

High level agenda: Tribal-Interior Budget Council (TIBC) | Indian Affairs

• Monday – Wednesday (Nov 16-18):  Subcommittee meetings (Mon-Wed) and Tribal Caucus (Wed)
• Thursday – Friday (Nov 19-20):  Main Meeting

TIBC Agenda:

Has been posted to the BIA.gov website:  https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/media_document/draft_tibc_agenda_nov_2026_1.pdf

Meeting Registration:

To assist with Registration, please take a few minutes to register here:  https://forms.cloud.microsoft/g/59euEk9MX1

Hotel Booking:

Also, if you haven’t booked your hotel room, there is still time.  We were able to extend the deadline to Oct 23 (Friday) with the special rate: https://book.passkey.com/event/51349950/owner/51185806/home

Subcommittees:

Federal Co-Chairs will be reaching out to Tribal Co-Chairs, if they have not already done so, to begin developing the subcommittee agendas.

Main session:

Federal representatives are working on presentation materials for the main session.

Meeting Minutes/tracker (from August 2026):

The meeting minutes and tracker from the August meeting are being reviewed and will be placed on the website.

TIBC Protocol:

The TIBC Protocol is up for review/update.  I facilitated a meeting with the Tribal Co-Chairs and other to provide updates.  The draft will be placed on the TIBC Website and reviewed at TIBC.

*Note the target date to post the above materials (subcommittee agendas, presentation materials, meeting minutes/tracker, and drafted TIBC Protocol) to the following TIBC Website: https://www.bia.gov/as-ia/obpm/tibc/meetings/2026, is November 6th.

Again, the meeting is an in-person meeting, however the main session will be streamed (only) for non-members that would like to listen in.  Once the streaming link is available, we will post on the agenda and on the TIBC Website.