Bobby Schultz

What the mayor can decide

Bixby’s charter provides for council members to select the mayor from among themselves. The mayor presides at council meetings, represents the city ceremonially and signs documents as legally required, while retaining a council vote. The council collectively controls ordinances, appropriations and major policy and appoints or removes the city manager. Councilors ordinarily deal with city administration through that manager rather than directing subordinate employees. Schultz can advocate, negotiate and vote; the mayoral office alone does not confer the council’s collective authority or the manager’s administrative powers.

Scouting and civic service

The Rotary district’s July 2025 newsletter presented Schultz as Tulsa Sunrise Rotary Club’s president for 2025–26. In the submitted biography, he described a 34-year professional career across three Boy Scout councils, including chief executive and Scout Executive positions in El Dorado, Arkansas, and Enid, Oklahoma. The biography also described earlier Rotary service in Okmulgee, Sapulpa and Enid. These are attributed career details rather than independently reconstructed personnel records. A trust announcement dated December 30, 2020 already named him executive director. His Rotary presidency is a documented past term, not a verified current title in October 2026.

Career & public service

1. December2020

   Leading the recycling trust

   A dated trust announcement identifies Schultz as executive director.

   MET2021 recycling directory announcement ↗
2. 2025–2026

   Rotary club presidency

   District newsletter identifies his Tulsa Sunrise presidency for this term.

   Rotary District6110 new-year newsletter ↗
3. August2025

   Equipment loan recommendation

   Recommended an agreement with a Scout council; minutes record trustee approval.

   MET August14,2025 meeting minutes ↗
4. July2026

   Selected as mayor

   KRMG reports council appointment on July27 following an acting period.

   KRMG: Bixby council appoints mayor ↗
5. October2026

   Growth and management priorities

   Discussed infrastructure needs and city-manager recruitment in a local television interview.

   KJRH: Schultz prepares state-of-city address ↗

People, institutions and the relationships between them

Following the connections

Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.

Documented relationships

6 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.

Growth, infrastructure and the manager search

In an October 2026 KJRH interview ahead of his planned state-of-city address, Schultz connected residential growth, commercial development, tax revenue and infrastructure investment. The report described residents’ concerns about whether infrastructure could keep pace and discussed the Spartan Creek development near 151st Street and Memorial Drive. Schultz also said the city-manager position was open and had attracted applicants. Those comments explain his public priorities at that moment; they do not demonstrate that development will finance all needed infrastructure or that a manager had been hired. Budgets, project decisions and the council’s eventual appointment provide the records against which those priorities can be assessed.

City leadership and regional services

Bobby Schultz is Bixby’s mayor and Ward 5 councilor, executive director of the Metropolitan Environmental Trust, and Bixby’s representative on INCOG’s board. The city and trust publish separate rosters confirming the first two jobs. A Rotary district biography explicitly identifies the same person as the trust’s director and a Bixby councilor. These positions place him in municipal policy, regional planning and recycling operations. They involve different governing bodies and should be evaluated separately: his mayoral title does not give him personal control of the trust or of INCOG.

Becoming mayor in 2026

KRMG reported that councilors appointed Schultz mayor on July 27, 2026, after he had served as acting mayor following Brad Girard’s resignation in May. The current city roster confirms Schultz as mayor and Ward 5 representative. This was a selection by fellow councilors, not a separate citywide mayoral election. The distinction matters when assessing his mandate: his ward seat and the council’s choice of a presiding officer are different parts of the city’s governing structure.

Managing the trust and answering to trustees

The Metropolitan Environmental Trust describes itself as a governmental trust that works with member communities on recycling, special collections and environmental education. Its governing board represents those governments. The board roster identifies Ellen Bussert as Bixby’s trustee and lists Terry Ball and Lisa Ford among the other municipal representatives. Schultz appears on the staff roster as executive director. Bixby’s participation therefore has a separate trustee as well as a mayor who manages the organization. That institutional overlap is documented; it does not by itself establish a conflict, improper coordination or personal ownership of public recycling services.

A recycling agreement with a Scout council

The trust’s draft-labelled August 14, 2025 minutes record Schultz recommending a loan of two unused recycling roll-offs to the Cherokee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for its Bartlesville recycling work. Trustees approved the agreement unanimously after correcting the trust’s name in the document. The record distinguishes the director’s recommendation from the trustees’ authorization. It also shows a connection between recycling services and a scouting institution, but does not establish that Schultz worked for this particular council. Approval of the equipment agreement is documented; subsequent delivery and recycling results are not established by these minutes.

An advisory role in statewide recycling

The Oklahoma Recycling Association lists Schultz on its Technical Council, with expertise in recycling depots, special collection events and public education. The association explains that these members volunteer as consultants when inquiries arise in their fields. Its website lists the executive committee and governing board separately. The supported relationship is therefore technical advice associated with his recycling work, rather than membership on the association’s governing board or authority over its finances.

Check the record

Sources & corrections

Research checked 2026-10-26. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.

1. Metropolitan Environmental Trust — Board of Trustees ↗

   primary · Checked 2026-10-06

   Vice Chair and Terry Ball — Tulsa; former city job title in biography is stale.

2. INCOG board roster ↗

   primary · Source date 2026-08-17 · Checked 2026-10-25

   Direct October25 retrieval: August17,2026 roster lists vice-chair Chris Benge, Tulsa County. Distinct from Christian Bengel.

3. Bixby City Council ↗

   primary · Checked 2026-10-26

   Current roster: mayor, Ward5.

4. Bixby City Charter ↗

   primary · Checked 2026-10-26

   Printed pages4–5, sections2.2–2.4: mayor, council powers and administrative noninterference. City-linked charter; no reliance on manager qualifications amended in2026.

5. KRMG: Bixby council appoints mayor ↗

   independent-reporting · Source date 2026-07-28 · Checked 2026-10-26

   July27 council appointment; acting mayor after Girard resignation in May. Unrelated criminal allegations excluded.

6. Metropolitan Environmental Trust staff ↗

   primary · Checked 2026-10-26

   Named executive director and individually identified portrait.

7. Metropolitan Environmental Trust: About us ↗

   primary · Checked 2026-10-26

   Governmental trust, member governments, recycling and education programs.

8. Rotary District6110 new-year newsletter ↗

   institutional-biography · Source date 2025-07-01 · Checked 2026-10-26

   PDF page30: Tulsa Sunrise president2025–26; submitted biography identifies both MET director and Bixby councilor; scouting career.

9. MET2021 recycling directory announcement ↗

   primary · Source date 2020-12-30 · Checked 2026-10-26

   December30,2020 press release names Schultz executive director; establishes employment by date, not exact start.

10. Oklahoma Recycling Association leadership ↗

    primary · Checked 2026-10-26

    Technical Council: volunteer consultant, recycling depots, special collection events and public education; separate from board.

11. MET August14,2025 meeting minutes ↗

    primary · Source date 2025-08-14 · Checked 2026-10-26

    Draft-labelled minutes, printed page5 item7: loan of two unused roll-offs to Cherokee Area Council; recommendation and unanimous trustee vote.

12. KJRH: Schultz prepares state-of-city address ↗

    independent-reporting · Source date 2026-10-13 · Checked 2026-10-26

    TJ Eckert interview ahead of October14 address: development/infrastructure concerns and city-manager search. Statements attributed, outcomes not inferred.