Greetings!
The nation is catching up to all that Tulsa has to offer! Forbes.com recently ranked Tulsa the 5th most livable city in America while basing their statistics on the quality of life measures in the nation’s largest continental U.S. metropolitan areas including: population, income growth, cost of living index, culture index, unemployment rate and crime rate.
As Tulsa continues to shine, the Tulsa Convention Center will celebrate its topping-out this week. The Convention Center houses Oklahoma’s largest ballroom and will be placing the last and highest piece of steel on the new ballroom. The construction will add a glass wall overlooking the BOK Center and add a corridor connecting it to the rest of the Tulsa Convention Center. The Vision 2025 project is expected to be complete in early 2010 and will add 52,200 square feet of rentable space to increase the number of events Tulsa can accommodate between the BOK Center and Convention Center.
I am proud to be your Mayor, and I encourage you to take an extra measure of pride in Tulsa, because together we are making Tulsa great!
Sincerely,
Kathy Taylor
Mayor
I Believe in Tulsa!
Community Meth Summit Addresses Tulsa’s Meth Crisis
Mayor Kathy Taylor brought together agencies, public safety officers and social services last night for a Community Meth Summit to begin a dialogue to address the growing meth problem. In the last three months, fires resulting from small meth production labs in apartment complexes have claimed three lives, including the lives of nearby residents, caused more than $700,000 in property damage and endangered the lives of children living in the home and near the household meth labs. Tulsa Police responded to 56 meth labs in the first three months of 2009, compared with 42 lab responses in all of 2008.
City Offers Parking Ticket Amnesty Period, April 6 – 24
Motorists who have unpaid parking tickets and would normally have to pay late fees and court costs can save money by paying their tickets April 6 – 24 during the special amnesty period announced by Mayor Kathy Taylor.
“With more than $2.2 million in outstanding parking tickets, we want to give Tulsa drivers a chance to pay their fines, without additional late fees or court costs, before more intensive collection efforts are launched,” the mayor said.
Tulsa Event to Benefit "Greening" of Tulsa
“ReFresh,” a night of art and music at the Tulsa Garden Center will be held Thursday, April 16, from 6 to 9 p.m.
The event will feature a silent auction, a recycled fashion show, live bands, a disc jockey, local food and hors d’oeuvres, art “under construction”, as well as information booths from organizations and companies which support Tulsa’s ‘greening.’
Register Now For The Cradle To Prison Pipeline Summit
Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor will host the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit in Tulsa on April 21, 2009. The summit will focus on the issues of incarceration, health and mental health coverage, poverty, and education.
Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) founder and president, will be the featured speaker. CDF released the Cradle to Prison Pipeline report in late 2007, outlining major social issues that many times determine outcomes for children and youth.
NABVET’s Resource Center Serving Tulsans
The National Association for Black Veterans Service Office located at the Tulsa Community College Northeast Campus is now open. This resource center not only serves students, but all veterans, service members, and family members in the city of Tulsa and surrounding communities.
With more than 650 veterans, service members, and dependants enrolled at Tulsa Community College just for the fall 2008 Semester alone, Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor and the Veterans Advisory Council collaborated with TCC and the National Association for Black Veterans to implement this resource center.
Legal Aid Program Now
Offered to Tulsa Artists
Representatives from the Tulsa County Bar Association, Tulsa Metro Chamber and the City of Tulsa introduced Tulsa Lawyer for the Arts, a new organization serviced by area attorneys and developed by Chad Burris of Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson to provide legal assistance and educational programming to artists and arts organizations in Oklahoma, at little or no cost.