Leaders Kick-Off Tulsa’s Capital Improvements Campaign

Improve Our Tulsa campaign for capital improvement projects launches

BY ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer

The campaign to convince Tulsans to “Improve Our Tulsa” kicked off Tuesday with a logo, campaign website and plenty of optimism for the $918.7 million capital improvements proposal.

“I think we’re all here kind of like parents in the waiting room — excited about this baby about to be born because we’ve been working on this thing for nine months,” said City Councilor G.T. Bynum, who led a council committee that helped select projects for the package.

City voters on Nov. 12 will consider separate ballot propositions to extend 1.1 percent in sales taxes up to seven years for $563.7 million in roadwork and other capital improvements projects and to issue $355 million in general obligation bonds mainly for nonarterial roadwork.

The campaign for the propositions, collectively titled Improve Our Tulsa, will focus on educating residents about their contents and scope, said Waller PR President Barrett Waller, whose firm will guide marketing efforts under an agreement with the Tulsa Regional Chamber.

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The City of Tulsa has produced this video discussing the needs and projects.

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