Hooray -- Money doesn't buy everything !!!!!

[Rose]

Conan-
You're so right.  Wish we could do it over and correct the errors.  

[Conan71]

Regardless of other comments on here, we will get that opportunity.

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by Tony

I have been coming to Tulsa since 1974 -- I never came or shopped here just because it was Tulsa, but rather I came/come for the EXCELLENT seasonal fishing that the Arkansas river in and around Tulsa affords (and the good Mexican food) -- to make it perfectly clear I would have loved to see monies directed toward cleaning up the bank dumping sites , build pedestrian trails, restrooms, parks, but my sticking point is and will always be the proposed dams - Zink was terrible for the river  

Tony (Stillwater)
Oklahoma Striped Bass Association
Tulsa Oklahoma

Would you support dredging, canalizing or other methods that would keep a channel with flowing water for longer periods of time?

We love that you visit and I love that you use the river, but the city has a bigger stake in its operation through the county than the Bass Association.

[YoungTulsan]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71


They could have gained a ton more credibility from the start if they just would have said there is a $122mm private gift, $5mm of which will go to park and pool improvements, a large percentage which will be aimed at north Tulsa.  Instead, they got an after-thought gift in the last two weeks of a 9 week campaign.  That smacked of outright voter bribery to those people and to others.

While coming out from the start and extending the promise of a gift would seem more genuine than tacking it on near the end and pretending it was the plan all along, it is still maybe $1 or $2 million (guessing?) out of a $400 million dollar plan supposedly bringing a couple of billion in development with it...  I would still feel left out if I were a North Tulsan.  That would be like building the BOK arena on the river and giving North Tulsa a picnic table and a porta-potty.