City Is All Ears When It Comes To Growth
Public to hear city improvement proposal at town hall meetings
BY ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
Sunday, March 03, 2013
City officials are hoping for strong attendance at a series of town hall meetings in the next two months to help whittle down a list of projects for what would be the largest capital improvements package in Tulsa’s history.
Mayor Dewey Bartlett and the City Council have been collecting proposals from department heads and city facility administrators for months and will ask residents to weigh in at meetings in all nine council districts beginning Monday.
Councilors hope to vote by June to put the $800.25 million initiative on November’s ballot.
“The mayor and the council have made a concerted effort to make this a very lengthy and public process,” said Councilor G.T. Bynum, who chairs a council task force examining potential projects. “I think the most important thing to us is that the proposal that finally goes to the ballot reflects the citizens’ desires as to how this money is spent.”