Tulsa City Hall: May 2023 Archives

I've been asked to give a lecture to a civics class on City of Tulsa government. Below are the collection of links from which my presentation was drawn:

• Oklahoma Municipal Code (Oklahoma Statutes, Title XI, Cities and Towns)
• City of Tulsa charter (Municode)
• City of Tulsa ordinances (Municode)
• City of Tulsa executive orders
• City of Tulsa website
• Tulsa City Council website
• City of Tulsa Internal Audit Reports
• TGOV (televised council and authority, board, and commission meetings
• Tulsa City Council FB page, with meeting live-streams
• Fiscal Year 2022-23 Adopted Budget
• Fiscal Year 2023-24 Proposed Budget
• City of Tulsa campaign contribution reports
• Improve Our Tulsa proposed 2023 sales & property tax package
• Improve Our Tulsa 2023 sales tax ordinance
• Improve Our Tulsa 2023 "Brown Ordinance" -- vague list of project categories
• Tulsa Planning Office
• Tulsa zoning code
• City of Tulsa codes, Comprehensive Plan (PLANiTULSA 2010), and small-area plans
• PLANiTULSA proposed 2023 comprehensive plan update
• Oklahoma Tax Commission sales & use tax reports
• Tulsa County Assessor public data (assessed property value, millage rates)
• City of Tulsa Census quick facts

MORE perspective on local government and power dynamics:

• My April 2022 talk to City Elders on campaign finance in local elections, with links to supplementary reading.
• BatesLine's Tulsa City Hall category
• The Kaiser System, by Michael Mason: Mason approaches the topic with empathy and care as he exposes the groupthink, fear, and divisiveness created as a small group of people use immense wealth as leverage to control our community's civic direction.
• Tina Nettles's account of the revision of Tulsa's animal ordinance is a good case study in how Tulsa's authorities, boards, and commissions are filled with mediocrities, steered by bureaucrats, and indifferent to thoughtful citizen input.