City Council - Driller Vote on July 10

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The city council meeting is on TGOV now. Don't forget to TIVO this riveting action.

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by Double A

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

quote:Originally posted by Double A
Maybe if the Mayor had made funding the Memorial a priority during her lobbying efforts at the state capitol, like she did for the low water dams, she wouldn't need to promise raise the funds personally now to sugar coat this Ballpark deal.

How do you she didn't? Do you know all the things that were asked?

You are unbelievable. You can take anything and turn it negative against her. She helped convince the state to give us millions, then offered to privately raise money for another project, yet you feel compelled to attack without any knowledge.

You need help.

Evidently, the low water dams were a higher priority.

The memorial is important and I am sure it will get done. But the dams cost a lot more and are indeed a higher priority at this time. OKC got 25mill for its Cultural Center we got 25 for the dams. I think we got a better deal and are using our money for a better purpose. The dams will be a better quality of life, will be used by more people, and be a better economic plus for Tulsa than the Indian thing in OKC will be for them. I actually thought the logical thing to do was to get some funds for our memorial, they get some for the Indian Cultural Center, we the memorial. I believe they were originally wanting like 40 mill to finish that Cultural Center.

What usually happens is that they would get the 40 mill and we get 4 mill. Thats always what happens. But we got 25 and they got 25. I dont know what kind of wrangling went on, but appears to me that we got a good share out of the deal. Was far better than I expected and far better than what we usually get. Plus looks like she is going to get the memorial funded as well. May end up just being a matter of months difference.

[Hoss]

Was it me, or did Billy M seem a little ticked about the cartoon in today's paper....[}:)]

[USRufnex]

THE TULSA CITY COUNCIL HAS TAKEN A SHORT BREAK

-- hmmm.  no commercials?  what exciting hijinks will ensue... [)]

[dsjeffries]

I wish I got TGOV!  I have Cox but since I'm on campus, they replace TGOV with the campus "station"... So I keep coming back here to check for updates.  What's the news?

[USRufnex]

...wow.  This is becoming quite a turf war... seems like an alternate universe compared to the stadium site I've driven by... now the guy from Central Park Condos is speaking...

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Tori Snyder took forever to get around to her point. Sager up now and RM is next.

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Sager bringing the mickey mantle prop was a nice touch. RM spoke for 30secs, mainly to make the point that Tulsa should fight to keep the Tulsa Drillers in Tulsa.

Jim Mccarthy (EVP Semgroup) is up now, Chuck Lamson is next.

[USRufnex]

The guy from SEM group brought up the point of having trouble drawing employees to Tulsa...

Lamson speaking... talking about 100 years of Tulsa baseball... didn't realize Drillers  tickets were exempt from sales tax?

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The exemption from sales tax is something the state mandated. It was mentioned in the PDF file posted above.

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DTU unanimously supports a tax increase? pancakes?

[dsjeffries]

Are they going to move to a vote, or is BM going to try to postpone it until more of his q's are a'd? []

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Public hearing closed.. finally.

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Oh great, here's one of the "you're messing up greenwood" and "not paying attention to the underserved."

I think she just said baseball wasn't a black sport.

[dsjeffries]

Who?