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BOk bailout: Other voices
Comments from elsewhere on the web about the City of Tulsa's payment of a $7.1 million Great Plains Airlines debt it did not owe: KFAQ's Chris Medlock was a City Councilor the last time someone tried to get the City to pay for the Great Plains mess. Here's what...
City Council General Election contribution reports
UPDATE: BatesLine appears to be the exclusive source of information about the Tulsa City Council pre-election ethics filings. The Tulsa Whirled normally publishes a story listing contributions the day after the filings, but they didn't bother this time, perhaps because the report of their favorite candidate contained some embarrassing contributions...
Daryl Woodard to replace Clark Brewster on fair board
A press release today from Fred Perry, recently installed as this year's chairman of the Tulsa County Board of Commissioners: Commissioner Fred Perry today announced that he will be recommending Daryl Woodard as an appointment to Tulsa County Public Facilities Authority (TCPFA), generally known as the fair board. "In my...
Cinnabar splits
The Cinnabar Companies, which encompassed Cinnabar Environmental Services and Cinnabar Service Company, are apparently no longer under common ownership and no longer under a common name. Cinnabar Service Company, which handles property acquisition for government and which once was the contractor for the Tulsa International Airport's noise abatement program, is...
Jackson, Turner turned out
I was pleased to hear this morning that Brandon Jackson and Ron Turner had withdrawn their names from reappointment to the TMAPC and the Tulsa Airport Authority, respectively. Both had drawn significant opposition based on their performance in office. Turner basically disqualified himself by saying that he would not appear...
A quick round up
We were at a very entertaining Christmas program at our church tonight, a dinner theatre play called "In Bethlehem Inn," written by John Carter. The audience members are guests eating at the inn as strange things begin to happen outside. It was well written, well acted, and well directed --...
<em>UTW</em>: How Good An Ol' Boy Are You?
An edited version of this piece was published in the October 19, 2005, issue of Urban Tulsa Weekly. The archived version is no longer online. How Good An Ol' Boy Are You? Tulsa County's aversion to competitive bidding might very well be shortchanging taxpayers by Michael Bates Smokey Robinson's mama...
Better shop around
The new Urban Tulsa Weekly is out. My column this week is about the proclivity of Tulsa County Commissioners (as commissioners, and as board members of various trusts) to grant sole-source contracts, a practice which doesn't serve the best interests of Tulsa County's taxpayers. The IVI bridge is just the...
Cinnabar loses noise abatement extension
Someone figured out that you need a majority of a trust's board to approve a contract, not just a majority of the quorum, so the 2-0 vote to award $7.8 million more dollars to Cinnabar for the airport's noise abatement program at a suddenly-convened meeting of the Tulsa Airport Improvements...
More public money awarded to the folks behind the "private" toll bridge
Just learned about this today: Thursday night, after quietly posting notice 48 hours in advance, the board of the Tulsa Airport Improvements Trust awarded a contract for the next phase of the Federally-funded airport noise abatement project to Cinnabar Service Company, the same company that had the contract for earlier...
Recall <em>quid pro quo</em>
UPDATE: Chris Medlock has posted his account of this matter and how the story wound up in the Saturday World. For the second time now, an quid pro quo offer has been passed along to Tulsa Councilor Chris Medlock: Support us on our pet issue, and we'll call off the...
More Poe
Here's another tidbit making the rounds. Although I don't have dates of service, I am told that Bob Poe, chairman of the Tulsa Metro Chamber, used to be the chairman of the Oklahoma Transportation Authority (OTA), formerly the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. This is fascinating, because Poe's firm has been a...
A different airport mess
A caller to KFAQ Tuesday morning mentioned another mess involving the Tulsa Airport Improvement Trust (TAIT), which is documented on the "Home, My Home" website. The "Home Not Quiet Home" section covers the Tulsa Airport's noise abatement program. The caller to KFAQ alleged that the TAIT received federal funds to...
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