The Greater Tulsa African American Commission (GTAC) held its regular meeting on June 23, 2026, beginning at approximately 5:35 PM. The agenda included a presentation on the Neighborhood Conditions Index (NCI) from the Tulsa Planning Office, committee reports, a vote to reappoint a commissioner to the Human Rights Commission, a presentation from the Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP), new commissioner introductions, and announcements. A photo of attendees was taken after adjournment.
Alright, we are live. So our vice chair, you are welcome to call the load to order. And introduce our guest speakers. Thank you. You need help lineup. All right. And 5 35, I'll call our meetings before. We have a second. A motion on the event. Okay. We don't have to use that. Yeah, the meeting has been under eight. Thank you. And I'll turn it over to our guest speaker for tonight. If you have anything you would like to present at the board or a podium before you can. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Alicia Myers, and I am one of the City of Tulsa's neighborhood liaisons. And I will be assisting our neighborhood coordinator. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is John Heatherington. I'm your neighborhood programs coordinator with Alicia in the Tulsa Planning Office. This evening we'll be presenting to you our neighborhood conditions index report. And we'll have a conversation with you all about our neighborhood programs and how they are informed by this report. So we're very happy to introduce this unique resource the city has put together. Just an outline of what we'll be looking at is what is the neighborhood conditions index? How is it made? What is it? Two is how to interpret your report, and third, um action planning or how to organize your neighborhood to address the data points you find in there to make improvements with your neighbors. So first, what is the neighborhood conditions index? Tulsans love their neighborhoods, and they want to improve their neighborhoods, but it's not always clear what to do or how to get started. Both the assets and strengths of your neighborhood, what you can lean on, what you can draw from, as well as uh gaps or perhaps areas that need some improvement. We will make it very easy to identify and act upon. And to make it even easier to interpret, we have designed it to look a lot like a health report. And we've used color codes to say, hey, green, you're doing great. Yellow, maybe you want to take a look. Red, this is something you might want to pay attention to. We organized it into nine chapters that reflect the comprehensive plan. So I have the nine chapters up here. And as you'll see in a moment, it's broken down into multiple data points under each chapter. So interpreting a report. This is the first page, and you'll see there is a uh a map of the area that is your uh what we call it the area, it's the neighborhood statistical area, and then you can see a map of the city itself and where your neighborhood is located or that reports located. There's also the overall scores, the sort of grand total summary scores from zero to one to five, and the priority group, uh, which is underneath. The priority group is actually used to help the city determine which neighborhoods to focus resources on. And it's based upon the overall score. These are the nine chapters, and then an example of the category scores for each chapter. And as you can see underneath the multiple data points that informed those uh category scores. As I said before, we we use uh a number from zero to five. The top 25% scoring data points in a given neighborhood will be green. The middle 50 is gray, and then the lowest scoring 25% are red.