The Tulsa City Council met on June 24, 2026, to consider several agenda items including a license agreement for canopies at the University Center at Tulsa, a change order for a street project waterline, creation of a tax increment financing (TIF) district for the Pearl District, adoption of the annual assessment for Tourism Improvement District #1, and two proposed ordinances to promote affordable housing through lien waivers and building permit fee adjustments. The council also heard a presentation from the Human Rights Commission on the geographic representation of authority board and commission members.
Note: Votes were not explicitly recorded in the transcript; outcomes are inferred from the meeting flow and statements.
Colleges for property located at 700 North Greenwood Avenue University Center at Tulsa Edition to install use and maintain two walkway canopies and a brickpaper walkway within the street right away. City Council District One. Paul, I was looking for you to come up to the table. Paul's agree public works. If you've ever driven in the old university center Tulsa area and gone through OSU, you're gonna say those two canopies and those brick pavers have been there ever since they built that place back in 1994. Um what's happened is something came up that involved the betterments that were going to be adversely impacted and we could not find the license agreement uh for it. And now that it's an OSU Board of Regents property, there could have been under University Center at Tulsa at the time under a different authority. So what we're doing is we're just bringing this back up to date. These bridges are not a city responsibility. The papers through there are not a responsibility. If they have tripping hazards by students crossing in there, that's a university issue that is not a city of Tulsa issue. So we did the search as much as we could, and with the changing of authorities, etc. We just thought it'd be easiest to probably just bring it up to date. So the pictures that you see in there, um, we did send them a letter. We want the proper uh M U T C D, which is the manual on uniform traffic control devices. We want the proper signage to meet for things that are going over roadways for delivery trucks, etc. So we're just bringing it in. I'm just gonna say into the 21st century, and everybody's got uh institutional knowledge about it now, to where that's I think is just what's been lost over time, and now we have a record of it. So we would ask uh for your support of this to clarify duties on maintenance uh with the Board of Regents and the City of Tulsa. We're all in agreement on this, and we had received no objections at all from any of the groups that we spoke with. So we would ask for your approval with this reinstituting a license agreement that's just not been found in our records, so it's a needed item. Well, I appreciate that, just ma'am. Any questions, comments? No, okay. Let's move on to agenda item number three. Paul, you're still here for that, right? Yes, ma'am. Change order number one to contract number one three eight zero six eight between the city of Tulsa and Crossland Heavy Contractors Incorporated for project number 2036 and 1153Z, and the amount of 28,530.45 cents, and adding 120 calendar days necessary for the addition of a waterline materials needed for design change, two-inch air relief valve for total six by six DI Cross, uh, blah blah. Sorry. That's a lot of numbers. Fill us in there, Paul. Okay. Um, what this what this is is we on our street project, we had a water line. We're gonna have to pour underneath this tree with this tree's road system was damaging the street, it's also damaging the sidewalk, and the tree's health was not of such too just to keep it around. So we're removing the tree, but in removing the tree, we've removed the bore, and we're adding in uh some the two inch lines, the two inch relief valve. We're putting in a six-inch water line, so we already had that a six by six ductal iron cross uh for a water line connection uh with restrained joints on it, and also two additional uh six-inch uh ductile iron plugs, and we're also removing a larger under tree uh just to kind of give you an idea. It's around 10 grand to get it completely out and dug out from underneath the street and clearing all the road system. So in doing that, we believe we could have bored under it, but we would have still had tripping issues, the road degradation. Uh so for $28,000, which is 1.3 percent of the overall contract, um, we're gonna be able to make an improvement. This will outlast the length of the roadway, so it's conditioned. So we would support this, and the the contractor is ready to move as soon as you all move. So we would ask for your approval of this item. What type of tree was that? A big one. One with deep roots, right? Yeah, deep and shallow. Spreading and damaging. Okay, well, just thought I'd ask. Okay, um counselor Archie. Yes.