All right, all right, all right.

Good morning, everybody.

Thank you.

The uh it is July 15th, 2026.

We are here together again.

Uh 1030 for the UED, that's Urban and Economic Development Committee meeting.

My name's Anthony Archie, Tulsa City Councillor for District 2, calling this meeting uh to order.

Uh but at the beginning of the meeting, we're gonna make a little bit of an adjustment.

Item number 17 and 18, which are the TIFFs.

We're going to uh address those um after agenda item number two.

So that'll be very quick.

No objections here.

Is there any objections?

All right, wonderful.

Uh I don't know about the rest of y'all.

No, I don't know.

All right.

We'll be here all day.

Yeah.

Well, look, we're going to try to get through.

Number two, uh, Whitney Schaefer reappointment to BOA board of adjustment term expires May 10th, 2029.

You attended 29 out of 31 meetings from council district four.

Welcome, Whitney.

Would you just maybe introduce yourself to those who don't know you and talk a little bit about why you will continue to serve?

Uh sure.

Um Whitney Stoffer here.

I'm um over at Narrate Design by Day and have really enjoyed.

I have served the last three years on the Board of Adjustment and have really enjoyed that appointment.

And when it was asked to continue, I'm happy to continue serving.

I did not know that my attendance record would be front and center here.

I'm glad that it was good.

But that by that evidence that um I have taken the position very seriously.

Um I think for the most part, to me, it's just a lot of it is normal everyday citizens that don't understand um the process, and I very much identify with that and understand that I think back to when I was a kid, and if my parents were trying to add on to the house or do something, they probably wouldn't have known that either.

And so I'm happy to serve and be um part of of that process to help people just good people just get get things done the correct way in our city.

So thank you so much.

Anyone have any comments?

Councilor uh Bellis.

Thanks for being done to continue serving and attending 29 meetings at least a year.

I know it's a lot, but I appreciate that you're bringing that knowledge that your knowledge set from that kind of design planning perspective to the table.

It's definitely needed.

So thanks for very ones.

Anyone else?

Oh, wait, actually, sorry, I'll follow up questions.

If you identify as people come to you all time and time again, a policy or some like thing that you're like, this would have to be in front of us if you guys just did this one quick change.

Please let us know.

Absolutely.

And we do um sometimes after a meeting, let city staff know, like hey, if we could bring this up, that'd be great.

So we we do sometimes we see the same thing over and over again.

Oh, I'm sure.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Yeah, let us know the actually that's put you on the spot.

Do you have an example of one that you like this always comes up?

No pressure.

No, you're fine.

Um, there were for a short period of time, there were a lot of um drive-throughs and cueing.

Um, and so someplace like for instance, like a Chick-fil-A or something like that that has a very long line.

Um, cueing is it's impossible to only have queuing on a certain side of the building, if that makes sense.

It's wrapping around.

That's one silly example, but um ADUs, there's a lot of ADUs right now.

Um there's a lot of duplexes uh requests for for duplex.

Yeah, um, but yeah, we we do see, and then there'll be like a hot one for like more driveway with like we'll see that for like you know a couple months and then that'll kind of die down.

But it's all pretty you know, standard stuff, I would say.

Thanks.

Helpful.

Yeah, absolutely.

And we'll continue to bring that up to you whenever we see things.

Thank you so much, Whitney.

We will be voting on you uh next week, the 22nd of July.

You're free to attend and speak if you'd like.

Don't have to, but we'd love to hear from you if you want to.

Uh, thank you so much again.

Thank you.

All right.

That's it for today.

Wonderful.

Thanks.

Yeah.

Okay.

We are going to skip.

Uh we're gonna invite Aaron uh pressure to the to the table and uh do agenda item number 17.

And can we combine 18 with it?

We can't serve or no.

It's up to you, sir.

But actually it's 16, 7, and 19 that we're here for.

So you say 16 and 16 leverage act.

Oh, okay.

I think I think they're all pretty distinct items.

I would just take them one at a time.

Let's start on 16 then.

Well, if you don't mind, sir, before we get started, I'd like to invite my fellows just to come to the stand up really quickly and introduce themselves.

All right, fellowship.

These are my two fellows I have for the summer.

Introduce yourselves.

Hi everyone.

My name is Lena Hassanis.

I'm the privilege of being one of the early leader fellows.

I'm Cyrus Carter, also a leaders fellow.

Urban leaders in the house.

Yeah, well, thank you.

Thank you for welcome.

Awesome.

And of course, I asked my family to come up here now.

All right, thank you.

Let me read the uh the uh agenda item resolution of the authorizing space submission of an application for state matching payment pursuant to the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act.

This is for the Phil K project and here is the emergency clause.

Mike Dickerson from Partner 12.

Did you see Sarah kick him out from the center?

You can't see the wall.

And we're not across the line.

I'm adversely possessed this area today.

All right, please.

I probably should be quick, so I apologize.

So this is the Leverage Act application to the state for the Filcade project.

This simply the state matches the taxes that are being paid up to a certain percentage by the city for this project.

I think the estimate for the state match over 25 years is around 20 million dollars give or take.

So this is clearly just to say can we move forward the application to get those state matching funds for this project?

Any uh any questions?

And by the way, just in case you need more information about that, I do have one page on what that program is all about.

So please feel about getting up to state money.

It's about getting state money.

Gotta love that.

Sure.

We'll take advantage of it.

Uh any questions or concerns.

All right.

Let's move along to item number 17.

Item number 17.

Resolution declaring the intent to consider approval of a project plan and creation of one or more tax and uh increment districts under the local development act for the area located between East 51st Street South and the South Domingo and East 61st Street South and Shift and South Sheridan Road, directing preparation of a project plan, appointing a review committee, directing the review committee to make findings as to eligible financial impact, if any on taxing uh taxing jurisdictions and business activities within any proposed district.

Is that good enough?

Yes, it's perfect.

Okay, thank you, sir.

So this really is for what we're calling the South Memorial TIFF.

Um imagine you're at 61st and Memorial, uh that beautiful theater that's there at Eton Square.

We're talking about that area there.

This is simply to start the process of getting the local development review act committee together to start the process of reviewing the project plan and moving forward, and I'd love to have Council Dr.

Wright uh talk about.

Thank you.

Um yes, counselors in the backup documents that we got on Friday, there was just the resolution language, but since then the map that you see on the screen now was uploaded to your backup.

Um can we zoom in a little bit on that?

Is that possible?

The back is full.

No, it's online.

It was not all the time.

That's a readdress.

Oh, can we get copies of preliminary extremely preliminary?

Now I had seen this prior to it being on our agenda, and I apologize that I did not notice that it was missing her backup either until media started calling me.

The maps are missing.

So anyway, yes, as um Mr.

Persley said, yeah, oh sorry.

Um, if you know where Eton Square is, 61st and South Memorial Corridor that you can see here, it's going from Sheridan all the way over.

Um so it's not just memorial, but I understand why we're calling it memorial.

So just give yourself a an orientation of this zone.

If you look at what's on the schedule here, uh the purple area is what long time Colson's know as Eaton Square.

Um the new ownership has really done a lot of investment.

We got to have a good tour over there.

We took representative Melissa Provenzano with us because it's also her district.

That's where that Aldi is.

There's a pet supply store.

Um the new ownership has a very high level um lots of square footage, uh high-end furniture, um, anchor store unit.

They are now a virtual golf club for lack of a better term for that if you're interested in that kind of thing, and then um you know they're gonna have other services and retailers moving in there.

There's also a plan for an office shared office uh co-working space.

So there's already been a ton of investment in that area, and I do see Councillor America here, and I know you shepherded the whole 61st and memorial road project intersection, all of that.

So this is just an area that has had investment over the year, but I think the pandemic didn't help.

And then if you look at um yellow area B, that's our formerly known as Vista Shadow Mountain apartment complex, and we don't need to be a dad horse about what that uh property has done to the area, and um we we'll have some discussion today about it because in the resolution language it specifically names that property, and I know there was some confusion about whether that property becomes a beneficiary of these dollars or how that all works.

So I don't know if Aaron or um Mike wanted to do that.

Absolutely, thank you, counselor.

Um Mike Dickerson partner Tulsa.

Um when the counselor reached out to me about concerns about the wording of the resolution, um, it it is describing the general area and that particular apartment complex was formerly known as Vista Shadow Mountain.

It's just a point reference, it is not setting forward any potential beneficiary of the increment that is being collected, but we saw that as an opportunity site for generation of increment.

So as that failed apartment complex is redeveloped, we see values increasing over there.

Whether it is the current owner and developer doing that or somebody else who comes in the future, we see that as an opportunity site, and that's why it's highlighted there as an increment generator.

The dashed line on the map that's on the screen and in the exhibit, that is the project area where those dollars can be spent.

So we aren't looking to incentivize necessarily that project.

We're looking to incentivize the entire area for readable.

So can I just clarify too?

Because I'm getting some questions.

If you look at the map right now, the far left border is just South Sheridan Road, the far right border is South Mingo Road, the one that's in the middle is South Memorial, and then on the north side horizontally, that's East 51st Street, and on the south side it's East 61st Street.

So you see the green kind of undeveloped area, that's Memorial Park.

Just for those of you who don't spend all your time in Southeast Tulsa.

Um but union um public schools, um Tulsa Public Schools.

Tulsa Public Schools, but Union Public Schools has their sixth, seventh grade center in this corridor.

Um, just to try to give you guys uh an idea, and it does border um districts five and nine to the to the north side.

Sorry, people are just asking me like what which one's memorials.

Yes, but this is a very preliminary exhibit.

You know, what we're here today to request is just your authorization to proceed forward to craft a version of this this exhibit that I gave you to then move through the statutory process.

So this would allow us to convene the local uh development act review committee, which has all those taxing entities that are affected by the properties inside that the boundaries here, and really build out a project plan for moving forward.

So this is a very very preliminary draft that you're seeing here.

It can change significantly as we move forward.

How the increment funds are used, would be just determined by the project agreement.

Correct.

So potentially a new developer could receive some of those, but not necessarily correct.

And just like all of the other TIP districts that we oversee, we would set forward a very um strict review process and application process for any TIFF award, whether that was for the city to come through and want to use TIFF funding to put up new signage or streetscaping projects and be a recipient of it, or if it was for a private developer to come forward and do the same, like out in front of their establishment.

You know, we would we would set for a process that we would adhere to and make everything would be public, of course, like all of our characters.

Councilor Paul Harbor.

Will the counselor for the district still be involved at it level?

Yes, yes, and that's we do that.

We so that is determined about the conversations about it.

We do that, we so that is determined about the conversations about it after yes, counselor.

As as we are starting and in the process of developing this draft project plan, that is one of the items that can be uh memorialized inside of the plan.

So it's as far as I don't know, it's not automatic.

Okay, so it would be every TIFF project is slightly different.

Yeah, but counselor to the point, we have opportunity to make it automatic.

We can do exactly I think we should make that a practice given past history needs to be involved in those decisions.

We're looking at new um guidelines for incentives right now, and so uh we can definitely definitely put that into our new incentive range.

And add a community engagement element too, because we just don't want community members to be reading about stuff in the papers.

You have that over there.

We always try to meet with the area stakeholders before we're doing anything big and let them be aware.

Um it's it depends on the area whether we get much participation, of course.

But I think you'll always try more participation if your counselor's involved, and I just absolutely do want to acknowledge that in past projects that's not always been the case.

I haven't experienced that in district seven, but I'm uplifting what I'm hearing here from my colleague.

Counselor Hall Harper, any additional coverage, Counselor Lake.

I'm glad that the boundaries aren't set yet, as you know, in Cell Tulsa, somebody decided that we are going to develop the corners, all four corners of every major intersection at some point, and so um it seems like balancing those intersections and trying to generate both increment and opportunity would make sense so that we don't have like one quarter of an intersection that drastically is better because of the tip versus the other three corners, which is what we have playing out.

I know there have to be start and end points, but um I think about all six of those major intersections in this area, and I think of all the opportunity and need for those to be made better in a lot of ways, and for them to be able to maybe produce increment and also receive um and for needed infrastructure to be uh built and carried forward there too.

So counselor tell us at some point how how you um gerrymander or how you pick the the district um so that there can be as much benefit for especially those commercial corridors as possible.

To your point that north uh west corner is the farm shopping center, just so you have another kind of yeah, that's inside of the yes, that's inside it.

Yeah, um inside the project area, yeah.

But across the street caddy corner is a huge shopping center that is used to be alive and well, but it's not well at all.

Right?

Is that what it's called?

Montana.

So Manchester Metal Memorial and Sheridan.

I think it's Fontana.

It is Fontana Fontana.

Memorial, sorry, Memorial and 51st.

What's that share?

There's another one at Sheridan of 50 first that's on the northwest.

Oh, that's on my side.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Like this TIFF is also going to benefit District 5 and potentially district nine, I think, over here.

So theater there.

I can't remember what it was called, but it seems like a start with an F.

Um Park Plaza or Park Plaza.

I don't know.

We need full systemia people.

Okay, we'll provide the sputter.

I know that it's across the street from the sputter, yes, to the and then it turned into a trade school.

No, it's good.

Yeah, just so you're good idea for kind of sorry, just going down the county because I know y'all know spend all your time.

I go to that Lindy's over there for a good sub sandwich.

All right.

I'm gonna go to the city.

Any other comments, Counselor?

Yeah, I just want you.

I do want to clarify what I heard here, and that's the street fund the fund.

Oh, yeah.

So 6100 South Memorial is the apartment complex that shall no longer be named.

Um I want to be very very clear that I do not want the current ownership to benefit in any way, shape, form, or fashion of any more public dollars.

It's already cost our community dearly.

What I did here is if a different developer were there or a different idea were there, there would be maybe some consideration, but it would be with a lot of community engagement and with whoever sits in the district seventh seat.

So I just want to expressly state that that's what I heard here today.

Of course, if we pass a resolution that says they're included, there is potential that things could change, and there could be an idea that the current developer would ask for dollars.

So I just want to be very clear that I'm saying, as long as I live here, I will oppose that whether I'm in the seat, not in the seat, a neighbor or whatever.

If I live in a different country, I'll fly back and definitely speak to it.

So have you removed me.

Counselor, I I would just like to say in response to that.

But you know, the the resolution that we're asking for today just gives us the ability to move forward with building this, and with respect to that particular development that you were just referencing.

Try not to name that I got you.

Um they are already doing work.

So one of the things that we use whenever we're evaluating projects is what's commonly called the butt four test.

So, but for the incentive, the project would not be happening.

The project there is already happening.

We're just seeking to use that as the catalytic project to capture increments.

Sure.

What that means though is they would not pass that but four test.

So the current owner in the current path that they're moving forward, that would not qualify for benefit.

Okay.

Now, if somebody if it were to not succeed, and somebody else were to have to take that on, that may qualify and it may not.

We would just evaluate that at that time.

Okay.

I just really wanted to clarify that because I know we only had the resolution language until these maps.

So and I had seen it all ahead of time.

So I apologize for not double checking that.

You all had the same information.

And um, I guess we can talk about number 18 if you'll read it.

Oh I wanted to go back to 16 for a second.

So is this something that we're uh re-upping, or does this not exist currently?

No, the leverage act is has always been there.

We're just accessing that program at the state level, it's already there.

You have to make application for each instance.

So my question is has the city of Tulsa made application before and we're just renewing not for not for this project.

No, this is a new So you do it per project for project, yes.

Each project has to apply for individually, and this is the field paid.

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

But the the act and the opportunity itself has been in existence for years ago.

I would just get into clarification.

I didn't know if this was a new tool.

No, ma'am.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

Anyone else on 16 or 17?

And just for clarification, please remember that the counselor for the district is the chair of the LDARC, so she'll be involved in this process from beginning to end.

The whole time.

Uh councillor Dutton.

Yeah, I just um I'd like to meet with you there in regards to who can use it, uh, enterprise zone, economically distressed or high of employment areas.

I think that's something that could be applicable for my district.

Um I would really like to capture any extra funds that might be utilized if you're in an enterprise zone.

Great.

Yes, but it would be it would be the a project.

Which is applying port, right?

In the enterprise zone.

Yes.

The airport would be an enterprise zone.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Okay.

Could you all get us a list based on districts?

Yeah.

Our enterprise zones.

Yeah.

Yes, ma'am.

We'll be actually our newest staff member John Tankard is actually working on maps to for all of the council districts.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

And then the military growth impact area that would also include it.

The National Guard in my district is just good to know.

Okay.

I would like to have it if you know easily for district.

Yeah, I agree.

These are the enterprise.

So you'll give you the talks to us.

Well, one.

Okay.

Number 18.

Resolution declaring the intent to consider approval of a project plan and creation of one or more uh tax increment districts under the LDA for the area located near East 71st and US 169.

And uh Mingo between 81st and 91st directing preparation of a project plan, appointing a committee and directing that committee to make findings as to the eligibility and financial impact, if any, on the taxing jurisdiction.

I'll just say a quick one too, and then hand over to Councilor Director Wright.

So this is the area on 169 and 71st, that Lowe's area behind that lows area that was a um unhoused encampment that will now be a very nice retail area for that.

Uh, there are already two and a half restaurants that have signed up to be in that two and a half.

Okay.

So we're going one contract.

So it's got a path.

Two and a half have signed up so far to be part of that uh that project, along with this, that's district A of his TIFF.

District B is a housing that's 300 units of the family housing, one to four bedroom units that'll be in that housing complex.

And so that's what this TIF area covers.

And it's Eldar committee meeting on to make the actual plan for that.

District those are affordable, projected to be affordable housing units.

So this map is labeled so you can see 91st, 71st, 81st, little kind of uh work job type thing.

So A is where the encampment was behind Lowe's.

It's a public-private partnership.

If you have questions, you can ask um director America too.

But uh Counselor Lakin and I have been working on this with all the entities for some time, right after I came into office in 2018, and Councillor America became director of America.

Um she found herself in the opportunity to match our 30 acres with 30 acres of privately held land that the Chapman Family Foundation had donated to Legacy Land Trust, and then um Mr.

Easley, Steve Easley, who is the developer on this project that won the RFP has purchased land, so now we're talking close to 70 acres.

So just for level set, the gathering place is about the same size or maybe around the same size.

Or the current the current yeah, the current part that we know is a gathering place.

So it's a huge transformative project, not just for the district, but for the whole region.

This is the the major retail corridor.

Um for those of you who are here for the SHELS TIFF, uh, that abuts this.

So now you can start to see where we're having these.

We don't have opportunity zones, but we have kind of these areas that we're focusing in on that abut each other to really up with the area, and I'm so excited that we're finally reimagining and revitalizing a part of town that is so crucial for our retail sales tax general fund dollars.

Um right now, undeveloped ag land will be generating if we get these um national uh businesses in, which Mr.

Easley is very committed to doing, we'll start generating some dollars, which for many many years has not happened on that land specifically.

Obviously, the retails in front have been impacted by an unregulated encampment that at some times would have up to 50 people living out there.

So the mingo trail runs along 169, so that will become more activated as the green space um trails and things get built out.

If you want to look at B, just a level set, that is Meadow Brook Country Club, right there at 81st and South Mingo, and increment B there.

We rezone to mixed use corridor a few years ago.

The parcel to the north of it is also rezoned mixed use corridor, and just for point of reference to the east is where you have the Ernest Childer's Veterans Center, um Hillcrest South, and then across the highway there, you know, St.

Francis South is doing a lot.

So this area in 91st is going under a major widening right now.

Thankfully, we're ahead of schedule.

And a few months ago, that portion of South Mingo that you're looking at here with increment B is where we are putting the um sidewalks in with the community development funds and PSO just has lit up that corridor corridor for the light.

Um I think there's new lights every 20 yards on that corridor.

So I do want to say for the existing neighbors there, there's a lot of transformation happening in a part of town that was largely undeveloped, and I know that that's growing pains.

Full disclosure, that backside of that yellow right there, is my neighborhood.

So a lot of that is little Hakey Creek, natural detention.

We have the butane transport line through there.

There's a lot of different elements in this corridor, but it's a desirable location, it's close to health care, it's close to retail and jobs, and so having this workforce housing going in.

I think it's 300 units.

300, yeah.

300 units with a trusted uh partner.

Um thank you, Jeff Hall, for connecting us with that person and those people.

Um, I think it's we're gonna see a lot of change in this corridor that is uh needed, and I know it's growing pains for those who have been there 20, 30, 40 years.

So I'm trying to balance the interest of everyone uh while not limiting what this could do for this part of town.

Uh, one final thing I'll say is this right here at 81st um is the TCC Southeast campus.

So um, you know, we want to make sure that we preserve green space.

You can see there's a lot of concrete.

We don't have as much tree canopy as those of you in other parts of town.

I know it's real easy to say South Wolsa has everything.

We also have more traffic, less trees, um, less sidewalks and things like that that are quality of life issue.

So four-lane roads.

Wonder how they got built there.

Yes, so um, we can we can leave the four-lane road debate up, but that South Mingo will be.

I will be pushing for the next approve art Tulsa package to get winding on that road just from a safety standpoint.

It's kind of a country road in the middle of all of this modern um urban suburban area.

So if you have any questions, certainly let us know.

Um, meadow brook, I just one pilot thing.

Meadow, sorry, Meadowbrook has over the years been a question of people close to the country club and not so close as I understand it has been purchased for development into housing at some point.

It's not gone through zoning, but people always ask what's going on with Meadowbrook.

So it was sold for housing pre-pandemic.

Those developers have then since sold it to other housing developers that also have a commercial element, and so ongoing talks about what happens with Meadowbrook is is still going on, and I just want to be very upfront with you all and neighbors that you know it's probably not always gonna be a golf course.

So it's still a golf course.

It is um during the pandemic during the pandemic, they decided to still be a golf course, and you know, everyone wanted to be outside and safe, so it's actually done quite well because of the pandemic.

But again, these neighbors for a long time have lived in properties at back up to the country club, and then it's probably going to get eventually developed and we rezoned and developed for housing.

Any questions or thank you for that?

Councillor Bangle, I like this corridor.

So the fact that you're putting those sidewalks in there, so you're spending that money and that because that is a nice corridor.

Um the northeast corner, you said that's a golf course or at 81st in South Corps.

I didn't even know there was a golf course.

It's been there forever.

That's a significant history.

Yeah, I never knew that.

It was the golf course in town where the uh Jewish population was welcome to golf at a time where they weren't welcome enough.

Was it previously inactive?

No, it's always been active.

I just think over the years it's been the place everyone went to, and then maybe you know, more options existed and less restrictions of where people could golf.

I'm I'm not trying to.

Is it a private or a city one?

It's private, but I think it's important to understand the history is Jewish golfers and residents went there because they were not welcome in other places.

So there's a history there that should be acknowledged.

And then I do think you know, membership maybe was waning uh before the pandemic, but during the pandemic it picked back up.

And it has you know the once a year, Fourth of July celebration fireworks and all the things that you would imagine that a country club would have.

Right here.

This is the country club.

And then the the pieces to the south are um agricultural and undeveloped, but those two we've rezoned mixed use corridor, and then the one at the front far south.

Um, I think there's another medical partner that kind of put their stake their claim on it because you have St.

Francis and Hillcrest across the street, and so it's like, well, we need to be in the corridor to compete.

I don't know what they plan to do with it, but you know, this is a regional medical corridor and a regional um center for jobs and services.

So that's kind of it's taken us 40 years to get here, but here we are with this little patches of green that are probably going to be developed.

Uh parcel A intentionally with a lot of preservation of trails, park elements.

Um, it's not going to be a nature preserve like you see at Turkey Mountain or Mohawk Park, it'll probably be more of an urbanized park experience, but it will have trails, it will have playground elements and green space because that's part of the deal on the public-private partnership.

The other piece of why we need um retail to support it is as you know, it's very costly for us to maintain our parks and our infrastructure, and the retail elements will be in a shared maintenance agreement so that we're smarter about how we take care of these 70 acres for now and in the future.

That's great.

Okay, very good.

And one last point because I always go back to numbers.

Um the tax generation from this project is quite impressive.

So you talk about the fact that it's going to project cost 173 million dollars for this project, and a generation of 251 million uh in tax generated from this project, estimated at this point right now.

So the ROI is great on this project.

And then just again, the SHIELS project is not in this, but it's not over the way, but yes, just over.

Yes, 25.

Yeah, it's just here council.

Go ahead.

Yeah, I just want to we're stacking that on the SHELS TIFF retail sales tax only tip that we all know now is doing what we wanted it to do.

So that's this is the what is Shields?

SHELS the I'm just kidding.

Oh I mean, I will just say that I think that's that was a creative use of TIFF in a way that we hadn't done as a city before, and we're seeing how it's starting to lead to this synergy.

Um, and to uh Mr.

Pursley's point, you know, to have Mr.

Easley come in a local, he's a local, he has successful projects and broken arrow and XV and all around.

You know, this is the kind of thing we want to see.

So um I'm very hopeful.

I do want to acknowledge it is gonna be growing pains, especially for those that live closest to it all.

Um there's a lot of apartments close to increment A, and there's a lot of existing single family residential close to increment B.

And not everyone's super excited to have all the green space around them not exist anymore, but we're trying to be as intentional as possible.

There's a lot of preservation just because of Little Hake Creek, so to create buffers, we were very intentional on that zoning.

Love it.

Anyone else?

Mike and um Aaron, thank you all for being with us.

Um they're telling me that Susan Miller has a time commitment.

Is that right?

Last month we want to honor when we don't meet for two weeks.

That's right.

We're gonna watch.

But I want to I want to invite her up.

What number are we on?

We are on number four.

Well, yeah, let me no, no, no.

Well, if if if Miller objections, yeah, let's take the zoning statue.

Yeah, if Miller has start at seven.

So uh thank you all everyone.

We'll center right.

We'll get back to the end of the day.

So what we'll do number seven.

Number seven starts Miller's uh part of the uh agenda.

Let's read number seven, and we'll get to it.

Rezoning application Z 7862 from RS3 to CG for property located uh east of the northeast corner of South Harvard and 27th Avenue South, requested by Robert Delansky, uh from the Golanski Trust.

Uh TMAPC voted 80 to recommend approval.

This is in council district four.

So this is a lot.

Um some of you are familiar with this area, just off that's the eastbound uh ramp, really onto the broken air expressway from Harvard.

Um there's already some warehouse.

There's a big red car barn back there.

Uh this is this lot or this request is uh uh to CG really for an expansion of so the big uh warehouse or building to the west.

This is the same owner.

Uh it's a really a personal warehouse.

Again, I think it's a car collection, um, like the big one, the big red one on the south side.

Um it's really just for uh not more building necessarily, but parking and other other property to support his personal um warehouse there.

So that's really about all it is.

It is a unique street since it does empty out onto the broken air express expressway.

So um it's really this is a multiple use land use designation, so it's not a residential land use designation.

Um it was unanimously recommended for approval.

Counselor Gilbert.

Can he fix that on ramp to the broken air expressway?

It is like one of the worst ones.

So we may not see, yeah.

Uh councillor Bagel.

Do you know if they're gonna pay that or if they're gonna use gravel or something that's they're not they wouldn't be able to use gravel if that to use be able to make sense?

They could ask for one.

That's why that's why I'm asking the question because you're saying they're gonna turn it into potentially a part of the parking lot, right?

In fact, he um the concept, which is just that now, would be um pavement and covered parking.

So it'd be something even more approved than just the surface.

Back to Councillor Gilbert.

No, I'm good.

All right, Counselor Bangle.

Oh I'm done for ping pong.

All right, anybody else moving on to number eight rezoning application Z7863 from RS3 and CSCG for properly located west of the northwest corner of East 11th, and Garnet requested by Jesus Vega.

Uh TMAPC voted 10-0 to recommend approval.

Okay, so this is all get started.

I know Councillor Denton will probably want to speak on this one.

Um, this is a couple of acres along Route 66.

Um, it is a single parcel with two different zoning districts.

So the request is to change the entirety of the zoning to CG, the portion uh or I'm sorry, the portion along Route C6 is CS, and they want to change the CS and the RS3, all of that to CG.

Um, so his intent and this there's not a lot of detail.

I'm not sure he fully knows what he wants to do at this point in time.

Warehouses he does mention in the vent center, which of course is Counselor Dutton's um thing.

Um so that's that's kind of really what we know.

It is a very heavily commercial corridor.

Uh let me show you that you know there's a lot going on out there.

You I can't remember how long ago it was now.

You approve the pool business, that's to the east.

Um to the west is um we're not really sure what that is.

It's a lot of stuff, and some of it sits in residential, so there's you know, definitely issues on whatever going on to the west of this, but um, this is where the property sits.

Counselor Dutton, you want to speak to this?

Um yeah, I spoke with uh Mr.

Vega on the phone yesterday in regards to postponing this until he returns that he's going to be out of the country for three weeks.

So we'd like to go ahead and postpone the vote on this and then address it upon his return.

Um the event center issue was probably my biggest concern.

Um I'm working currently on ideas to have stricter regulations for event centers based on the past issues that we've had with juveniles drinking drugs and whatnot.

So he was willing to go ahead and postpone it.

Yeah, in about three weeks.

Okay.

Yeah.

I I plan on meeting with um Sarah Jack to discuss okay.

Sounds good.

All right.

Uh moving right along number nine, rezoning application uh 7864 from RS3 to RM3, property located at the northwest corner of East 46th, North and North Peoria requested by Justin uh Orion from Wallace Design, uh Council District 1.

TMAPC voted 10 0 to recommend approval.

Okay, this one um is currently um RS3.

This I think this is a really good piece of property.

Um glad that they're developing this.

So this is um this is quite a large piece of property for units and in big infill piece of property.

Uh one to rezone to RM3.

Um the traffic study shows that they're planning about 112 units.

I think the concept is um just two-story walk-up apartments, so 112 of those units on this site.

Um, you know, it's a good location, it's near the BRT line.

It's already has channelized um sort of stormwater system.

It's near the um near the trail.

There's a lot of good things about this location.

Councilor Hall Harper.

Yeah, I don't know anything about it.

Who's on the owner?

Um the owner is somebody from Las Vegas, Marogo Rodrigo, uh applicant or the yeah, the applicant taking it through is Wallace design.

Yeah, what what type of housing?

Apartments, low rise, walk-up apartments, two-story.

Market rate, probably.

Yes, as far as I know.

I still like to talk to my team.

Anyone else?

Probably at the top of that page on your left at the very top.

Very on the page that you were looking at.

Yeah, yeah.

No, it just have the walls.

No, look right below that C O.

Okay.

All right.

Anyone else?

Any comments?

All right.

Number 10.

Rezoning application Z7865 from OM to CS for property located at the northwest corner of 31st and Sandusky.

Requested by uh Nathalie Cornet, Eller and Dietrich.

Uh Council District 4.

TMAPC voted 100 for approval.

So this is, I'm sure you're all familiar with this piece of property.

It is a um true value hardware store.

It's zoned ROM.

No one would have ever known because um I don't know how they got to do retail in OM, but it's been there for so long.

I'm sure you're all familiar with it.

So the request is so that hardware store has now now gone out of business.

So if you've gone by there recently, you've seen I think it says for lease.

The concept there is uh a gym.

Someone's talking about doing a gym in that space, which needs commercial.

So that's that's why we have a request request to CS on this property.

Um, there are some other um uh a building facing east that has some other small things in it, like a restaurant.

I think there's a photo printing place, so those businesses are still there too.

So it's really just bringing the zoning in to what has existed on this site for decades in the country.

Any um questions or concerns?

Councillor.

All right.

Um this next with feels like a home code.

Um number 11 rezoning applications, uh 7866 RS3 and uh AG uh from RS3 and AG to RS4 with an ODP for property located at the southeast corner of 101st and Florence requested by Tanner Consulting uh property of life tabernacle United Pentecostal church.

TMAPC voted 10 o to recommend approval um uh RS4 rezoning with an optional development plan.

Next one is related to oh that's right.

Okay, so number 12.

Uh we'll put them together resolution number 29 64 of the TMAPC pursuant to uh Title 19 amending the comprehensive plan by adopting an amendment changing the land use designation from multi-use to neighborhood approximately on approximately 9.58 acres for properly located at 101st and Florence requested by Tanner Consulting in District 2 slash 8.

That TMABC voted 10 oh to approve.

Okay, so there's a lot to this.

I won't go into the history unless you want to afterwards.

Um so this isn't very unique in many ways.

One is it is split by council districts.

Um it is RS uh three, is that right?

RS3 and AG.

So you know, we know the history of doing something other than residential.

The neighbors uh did not like that idea.

They came back for residential requests, so they want to do RS4, which are a minimum of 50 foot wide lots.

However, um, I'll just kind of skip to that part for now.

Um, however, the concept, and this there's a lot of floodplain that goes through this site.

So this is really uh maximum.

I'm not sure they could even really get this many with it depends on you know how they handle that on the site.

Um so really the vast majority of these lots are 60 foot, and I think it says that in the footnote on the left at the bottom, something to that effect about the lot size.

Um I think some of the corner lots may not quite meet the 60 feet, maybe 58 or 57 or something like that.

So I think that's why they went to RS4 to just help with that, so they don't have to go get a variance for all of those lots.

Um so I think I think you know, the neighbors we did not hear from one neighbor um in the process, so that was not expected necessarily.

But I think they had a meeting with the neighbors.

Yeah.

Yeah, they had a meeting, so I assume where you received positive feedback from and no negative feedback.

Isn't that so good?

Um question uh about uh the floodplain.

I would I read in the backup material at one point.

So I mean, obviously you can see the pictures of kind of of a floodplain, but there was work from the Ventil Creek management, uh the master drainage plan that has corrected some of that.

Yeah, I think they're gonna still have some more work to do to um.

There's a there's a map in there.

So I just uh if I didn't know if it had been corrected or they're just in the process of yeah, I mean they're as they develop the pro have to get approval and as they plat and develop the property, they're gonna have to figure out how to accommodate the the drainage and the the floodplain that's there.

So that's still a lot of work to be done.

Go to more.

Um maybe it's not in your well, maybe it's not in your presentation, it's just in the back of the code.

Oh, okay.

But it has like the water also.

Oh, right, right.

Yeah, it's a lot.

So they'll have to work through that as they develop the site.

All right.

Any questions?

Uh uh, Councilor Lincoln.

So for the ODP for that picture that you showed us with the homes and the lot sizes, what are they what must they adhere to with respect since it is an ODP?

Okay, thank you for asking that they didn't say it.

Um so ODP is only for private streets.

Okay.

So they will have private streets that um, you know, so it can become more dense to the RS4 standards worth 50 foot wide logs.

Right, right.

This is the concept they're showing, but there's nothing to yes, that's yeah.

So they could put I don't know how many are on there, 32.

36, maybe.

Oh, yeah, it goes backwards in the middle.

So it could end up with 40 or it could.

I think the floodplains gonna really restrict that, but um, but yes, that's right.

Conceptually it could be more.

And then our last ODP that we were considering had screening, lighting, transparency, and some other elements.

Um lighting is not going to be an issue here because lighting is to residential standards, right?

We don't need to say the lighting has to not be shown in some general direction.

What about screening?

So there's no well, I and I know you're not asking me this, but the ODP or there's no screening requirements between single family and single family.

You can tell it, you know, the on the east there's really no single family that comes up to it on the west, there is um, so it's really just a single family neighborhood next to a single family neighborhood, so we definitely wouldn't see that as something that needed screening.

Um the standard will be that they're gonna put in some kind of wall or fences or something like that, just like that, other neighborhoods to the east and west.

Anything we're leaving out that are typical for ODPs for something like this?

No, not since it's single family next to single family, no.

We don't usually have any real extra standards in those cases.

I will say just just because it's another part, we don't need to talk about it too much, but the comp plan amendment, you know, Lori always puts on the agendas about the 45 day, if it's not acted on, the comp plan amendment amendment is automatically approved.

That's what happened last time because it was pulled offline, a lot more discussions happened in the middle of that.

This was approved for multiple use.

Now they're going back to neighborhoods, so that's really just you know, going back to reflect what they were before and what they're gonna do now.

And then go go back to that one that we were just on.

Oh, that the what happens to the yes, what happens to the gate to the north?

Now you have to have two entrances.

Yeah, this is an emergency access gate.

Oh, okay.

So it stays closed most of the time?

Yes.

Okay.

The fire fire gate.

Does that mean that residents can go in or out, or does that mean that they can't go in or out?

Not sure how that's it's an emergency.

So I'm sure the residents have access to get out if they move to.

I don't know how those work.

I don't think it's meant as a usually clicker thing.

Yeah, yeah.

That's what I thought.

So that's what I thought as well, but sometimes it just creates I I don't want if two cars are going in on 101st, regardless of which direction they're they're going, and they can go in that gate, then it could create traffic issues compared to driving in on Florence where you can probably stack 10 cars.

Right, and you can even just tell it, yeah, it's not designed for a in the S.

Right.

Well, can we there we go?

That's my friend.

I was like, what's mine?

Do I always get away from it?

I think some kind of people are there.

Um people are going to be able to do how do we how do we limit it so that it's not used for let me kind of go back and find out more about that.

Okay.

And I'll let you all know.

Okay.

Most of those emergency gates are meant specifically for first responders, not oh, I know, but I have I have one in Sun Meadow that's they are using it as a right uh into another neighborhood.

And if and and it's it's it's a point of contention for the neighborhood for for residents in both neighborhoods.

Yeah.

So yeah, it's better to just set expectations and make it very, very explicit right now.

Just in the ODP, right?

Okay, I'll look at that.

Anything else, Counselor Lincoln?

No, sir.

Counselor Hall Harper.

Um private streets, private street, it's data.

What they did, but the streets themselves will be private, so they'll have to be they'll be maintained by the homeowners association, not the city.

So my understanding, and this may have changed that when the streets are private, um, the developers not required to build down to the code.

No, they have to.

They have to build even private streets, they have to build them to city standards.

That I don't think that used to be the case.

Or at least at least people did not have a neighborhood that's doing with it right now.

Right.

And they're constantly asking me in the streets.

I mean the neighborhood 30 years in now.

Horrible.

We we can't I was just highlighting it as a warning.

Don't do that.

Yeah.

So if they start off as a gated community, can they change later?

So is it part?

It's right.

Once it's gated, it's always you have to get a hundred percent approval.

Yeah, and the city has to be going to adopt it.

And the city has to agree.

And I know that and Terry and Paul will tell you that neighborhoods come to them.

Yeah, we'll ask after you know they've not had a homeowners association to keep to maintain it over time and is in bad shape.

So that's a neighborhood like that.

It could be done too, but it's rough.

Highly has the um I think it's just good for conversation at the table.

Yeah.

Is there like in conversation with the developer to say you want to just do regular streets or public streets?

Or they have to do it now.

Well, this is gonna be part, yeah.

It's part of the ODP in there.

I and I don't know why they wanted to do private streets necessarily, but that's the concept that they went with.

Well, remember the issue to the West for that public street neighborhood is that they have lots of parents stacking up in that neighborhood, dropping off their kids because Jinx Middle School is just right across the street.

CK people want to play in the house.

So we are trying to deal with that in the last ODP.

Right.

Because that is grand central station on Friday twice.

All the schools are like that.

Oh, I know.

Yeah.

All right.

Anyone else?

All right.

Thank you so much.

Uh okay.

I um we get the party stuff.

I think the budget items will go very quickly if we can think of yes, I do.

So we should do that instead of the setup hotel motel.

You you most of the budget items we've already approved in the budget.

This is just uh an argument.

We're gonna save, yeah, we're gonna save the last.

All right, well then let's do it then.

Let's go back to uh number three, item number three ordinance amending the fiscal year 2627 budget to make supplemental appropriations of a hundred thousand dollars recognized from unappropriated fund balance within the long range capital projects fund.

This has to do with maintaining our Route 66 assets, especially the welcome sign.

Um Jared is here with us.

Pleasure to be here, Jared from uh budget.

I'll be super fast with these three because you've already pseudo approved uh half of them already.

So in the FY27 adopted budget, the council uh approved 100,000 to go to these uh asset uh maintenance funds, and so this is just uh that approved moving the money to this long-term bucket.

This is appropriating it to that use now in the uh long-term bucket.

So it's just doing exactly what council approved in the FY27 budget.

Any uh comments?

My God.

Say it again.

My God.

Okay, great.

All right.

Number four ordinance amending the fiscal year 2627 budget to make supplemental appropriations of one million dollars recognized from unappropriated fund balance with a long-range capital uh fund uh capital projects fund.

This has to do with the 1921 Graves investigations.

Yes, sir.

Same story as the last one.

Uh the FY27 budget approved this million dollars from the general fund as a transfer.

We transferred it to this fund 479 long-range capital.

So this is now appropriating and put in place for that use.

Thank you.

Oh, yeah.

Any questions?

All right.

Oh, with that, we have some problems.

Is there money in those album?

Okay, uh, thank you.

Number five ordinance amending the fiscal year 2627 budget to transfer unencumbered and unexpended appropriations of 530,430 between departments and account groups within the 2016 vision economic development capital project subfund.

This has to do with citywide and Route 56 reunification reinvestment.

This is just related to the kind of administrative in nature related to the 26th reord uh planning and how kind of culture and parks took over more of the capital.

This is just moving the money back from culture and parks over to uh the planning office and neighborhood planning and uh the scope project, nothing about a changes whatsoever, just a different department managing it.

Okay.

Any questions, concerns?

All right, very good.

Uh item number six ordinance amending fiscal year 26-27 to make supplemental appropriations of 237,000 200 recognized from grant revenues to be received from the office of the district attorney within the public safety and protection non-federal grant subfund.

This is a uh pseudo-regular award for that the uh police department receives from the revolving drug fund with the uh the office of the DA, and it is just to pay the ongoing operations of the special investigation division, uh that facility, their software costs, training costs, education, and uh such uh any comments, questions?

All right, it was quick crossing.

Thank you so much.

Uh and everyone's all right.

Um it's time.

It's all right.

Let's uh let's talk about uh item number 13.

Resolution calling for and requesting the election board to conduct a nonpartisan special election, November 3rd, 2026.

For the for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of the city of Tulsa in accordance with uh Oklahoma State Statute.

Uh the question of rather City of Tulsa ordinance number 2583, increasing the levy of the excise tax upon the gross proceeds or gross receipts derived from the rent from every occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel in this city.

We'll go from 5% to 9.9.

So the approved going giving notice to the Tulsa County Electoral Board of State Elections pursuant to the Oklahoma statutes.

Is that good enough?

Uh you can read all their hotel items.

There's three of them.

Okay.

Um, ordinance of the city of Tulsa amending the TRO Title 44, Title City of Tulsa Hotel Code, Tax Code, Chapter 1 entitled City of Tulsa Hotel Tax Code.

Uh subsection A by increasing the levy of excise tax upon the gross proceeds or gross receipts derived from the rent of every occupancy of a room or rooms in the city from 5 to 9.9, providing for severality.

Number 15, ordinance uh of the city of Tulsa amending the TRO Title 44, City of Tulsa Tax Code, Chapter 1, titled City of Tulsa Tax Code, uh Section 118 titled Creation of Funds to Set the Allocation of Revenue as of January 1st, 2027, and January 1st 2031, and as the end of the month in which full repayment is made of the two capital improvement bonds anticipated to be issued by the TPFA for renovations and upgrades of the Arvis Convention Center and BOK Center or any associated refunding bonds providing for separability.

This was brought to us with the emergency clause on all of them by Fangle, Gilbert, Lakin, and Bellis.

Okay, I'm gonna open it up.

So these three items on our agenda today are related to the hotel guest tax.

Uh, we have been working on this initiative around this table as a team for several months, and we are now coming back after a brief break from our uh committee discussions while we finalize the city's um annual budget.

Today we have a presentation and recommendations for you on these items, and just as a reminder uh for the public, the hotel guest tax is not a sales tax on everyday purchases that we Tulsons make, like groceries and clothes and stuff like that.

So it is a tax that is assessed only on guests staying in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals when we invest in tourism.

Our return is simple.

More people visit Tulsa.

Um visitors are critical to our city, our economy, as their spending naturally provides an uh increase sales tax revenue that funds Tulsa's needs, like our roads, public safety, and uh city core services.

So we can really achieve uh some of our local goals by spending other people's money.

Yay.

Um, it is important to note that hotel guest tax has been around for a long time.

Um in fact, the rate 5% has not changed in over 40 years.

Uh this means that Tulsa is falling behind our other Oklahoma communities, uh, many of which have a rate almost double uh Tulsa's current rate.

We have been studying what should be the best rate to achieve our goal, our goals in today's presentation.

We'll uh review that work, and then we will discuss a proposal.

I'm going to turn it over to Sarah to begin our presentation and then to Councillor Lakin with review on specifics of the proposal.

But before I do that, I want to thank our many partners who have worked on this project with us from the get go.

And they are here today.

Our hotel partners and leadership board from the Metro Tulsa Hotel and Lodging Association and members of the public facility authority.

So she wears many hats.

So thank you very much.

Keeping us on track.

It's easy all the time.

This is the benefit of two weeks off.

I've never experienced them.

So now I will turn it over to Sarah.

Thank you.

Just a quick procedural step.

I know our printed copy counselors have their copies, but if anybody else wants a copy of the presentation printed, I do have some.

Do you want anybody else want one?

Okay.

Printed counselors.

Yeah, you're the printed counselors.

The three we have three.

We have the counselors.

Yeah, our recycling.

I went to a paper-free college.

Oh, wow.

So no printing.

Very millennial just.

We didn't have any other options when I went to Colorado.

I believe the fact that she might probably very modern of you.

Okay.

So like Counselor Gilbert.

No college rule paper.

Yeah, no, I don't have that.

Okay, so like like Counselor Gilbert said, um, we are gonna spend just a little bit more time than normal recapping some of our work.

Um felt like that was important in this because ultimately the public is the person that gets to make the decision in this, so we want to make sure they have all the information in case this is the first day they're watching on this that you all have been given in this process.

And so I promise I'll try to go though a little bit faster.

So after the review though, um, Councilor Lincoln will go over the proposal and then I'll loop back at the end real fast to just talk about next steps.

Um so the slide on the screen really represents uh your kind of formal process related to the hotel tax.

So that began back in January, but really kind of began before that.

Um, in the 2025 premier council retreat, you guys set a goal to establish a long-term funding uh solution for your tourism and your facility efforts related to tourism.

Um, and then Councilor Bellis and Counselor Bengal did a lot of work with our hotel association to kind of clean up some of our ordinances so it was really clear on what the definitions were and some of the exemptions.

Um so once that preliminary work was done, uh you started your process.

Um that process included a deep dive into the facility needs.

We went on a special meeting tour and were joined by um several members of the public on that tour.

Um we took some time to understand the role of tourism in our community, um, how it impacts our economy, how we compare to other similar communities.

Uh we have a public engagement that we went through, stakeholder meetings as well, um, and then we took some time to refine the proposal.

Um so we're at this point today discussing the proposal where the star is on the chart on that slide.

So just a reminder, um, Counselor Gilbert did a good job explaining what what hotel tax is and isn't, and um primarily historically, we have used uh hotel tax in order to invest in our city facilities that are kind of those economic generators, and so those include the BOK Center, our VIS Convention Center, and the Performing Arts Center.

We've invested in promoting tourism and marketing so that people come to our community, and we've recruited some major events over time to achieve those uh tourism goals, and then also there um have been various economic development initiatives supported over time.

In addition to these direct benefits, hotel tax has the opportunity to increase our sales tax generation through that visitor spending, which lets us take care of things like roads, public safety, and parks.

So reviewing quickly what we learned from our tourism.

In 2023, 1.43 billion dollars was spent by visitors, averaging close to four million dollars a day in that same year, about 10 million visitors were welcome to Tulsa.

And then thinking about just the our local impact in the community, there's about $16,000 or 16,000 jobs that are supported by tourism activity.

Tourism, I think is the third largest economic industry in our state.

And so many of our neighbors might be in this industry and their livelihood may be supported by this.

On a more granular level, our conversation showed us that for every dollar we invest, so from our hotel dollars into our contracts to invest in tourism, there is a return of 162 dollar economic impact.

That is from direct business sales, sales tax revenue, and different labor incomes.

And then the other part of time we spent was really talking about our facilities, and you'll see from the numbers on the slide, the economic impact of our city owned facilities is I mean, huge is the word to describe with that.

And so it bring they bring in tons of visitors, a million visitors a year, and had 143 million dollar economic impact last year.

Those same facilities though have not had major renovations.

So since that time, the BOK has stayed still with its technology, and Apple has generated 51 new models of that iPhone since that time.

So that is what our visitors experienced today is that I think it was a 2G phone was the first one.

It wasn't even 3G capable.

And so you can see when we had members of our facilities authority come talk to us.

They talked about imagine a million people coming through your home every year and the wear and tear that that would put on.

So that's what these pictures represent that visitor wear and tear on the facility.

Similar to the visitor experience, this is the back of house experience or the behind the scenes experience.

You will see that there's some pretty critical sound equipment repairs needed when we recruit these major performances and artist and teams to this facility.

These are the very welcoming locker rooms that they get to enjoy.

Um that was presented was utilizing revenue bonds.

Um there are about four.

The project needs are broken down into four phases, but those total 128 million dollars.

We do have some available funds from IoT 3.

Um, there were some included in that package, and then there's also the reserve or the venue profits that have been put aside, and that is helping fund some of these approvements as well.

So the gap is about 80 million dollars, and that is what we would consider using revenue bonds to fund.

Running alongside kind of your policy consideration, there's been public engagement throughout the process.

So we've had a website the entire time that if anybody wants to go back and watch any of these presentations, um, they are welcome to click those links or get any of the materials that were handed out during any of the meetings.

We've had an online contact form, and then we also had a town hall at the end of March.

The town hall really focused when you think about the decision points that you all as a council make about tourism and investing in facilities.

The town hall really focused on that first decision point, which is calling the election.

So to call the election, you need to establish a percent, you need an election date, and you need those high-level uses, like economic development and tourism for your ballot language.

At the town hall and through different stakeholder inquiries, the vast majority of your questions have really landed in that second bucket, which is really how you're going to divide something up.

So if you think of the first bucket as a pizza, currently we have like a personal pan size pizza.

In the first bucket, you're deciding, yeah, is there's no deep crust in this.

So the the first bucket you're deciding how big of a pizza are we going to explore.

The second bucket is really how are you going to slice that into the different funds?

Um, so those are those decisions.

Currently, that's governed by an ordinance in our tax code in Title 44.

And so that is one of the ordinances on your agenda today.

And then the third bucket is really an annual decision.

Who carries out the programs?

Um, so the council has that decision from a budgetary standpoint of what to appropriate from a program perspective.

Um, and then the mayor uh has contracting authority, and these programs, depending on what they are, have been carried out by external entities, internal departments.

Um, it really depends on the the program and the use.

So, in listening to all that feedback, the discussion at the table, the proposal really had um process, had three goals.

Um we want to develop a proposal that invests in growing and maintaining the uh city's key tourism facilities, those mentioned on that initial slide.

Um, increasing our resources for tourism and marketing.

So we saw that previous slide that for every dollar we put in, the economic impact can be 162 dollars.

And then this was one really I heard a lot from counselors serve as good stewards of public funds, um, and that means being competitive on your hotel rate.

It means really capitalizing on visitor spending so we don't rely on our local tax base to account for all of all of our needs in the community that we have, um, and then reducing our debt payment.

So if we do have revenue bonds, um, the faster we are able to pay those bonds, um, the less debt we will have to pay, and that will help you all preserve those public funds for these really important projects.

So I'll turn it over to you.

Okay.

Um you all know that we've talked about a bunch of different numbers whenever we were going through this process with our partners.

So again, uh facilities, hoteliers, visit Tulsa, council, mayor, uh directors of different departments.

Um, we really needed to do a lot of what if analysis.

So there's a lot of levers that we were were able to pull and look at during this analysis.

Um whenever we started to think through it, we knew we needed a really bold, robust spreadsheet.

And in that spreadsheet, we we needed somebody who had the expertise to give us good sound information from which we could make our decisions.

So for the chamber hired tourism economics, which produced a baseline spreadsheet that provided the growth numbers and all the estimates that we needed.

We then took that spreadsheet and started saying, well, what if the sale?

What if the hotel tax was 9.25%?

What if visit Tulsa got 40% than 45% than 50%?

What if we could pay the bonds back more quickly?

Could we save money?

Um it turns out that just moving back and forth with numbers in a couple well, in about three different meetings, got us to a place where we are today.

So what we're proposing is to go from 5% to 9.9%.

We believe the 9.9% keeps us in a in a in a good place from uh psychological standpoint.

Nine percent is different than ten percent.

Um we don't need 10 or 11 or 12 percent.

We don't believe in order to do the things that we need to do.

Um the things that we need to do again is to bond the cost related to building out our public facilities, the BOK Center, RVST, and continuing to fund uh PAC related uh things uh we have to continue to invest in Vision Tulsa because every dollar we put in a vision Tulsa provides a very robust return.

Um we had a lever of an opening date for the convention hotel.

So how can we put more money toward visit Tulsa activities earlier rather than later because the convention hotel is supposed to open in 2032?

Same thing with PGA.

The PGA will be in Tulsa in 2032.

We have visit Tulsa has a lot of work to do between now and then.

The earlier they can start, the better off we all are.

And then last, as I've already said, how quickly can we pay that bond back?

If we pay it back more quickly, we could save hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars that we keep in Tulsa rather than sending it off to an international or a national bank based way outside of the state of Oklahoma.

So what we're presenting to you today, go back one is just moving from 5% to nine per 9.9%, which basically doubles the amount generated.

You know when the public vote is, and this would be effective if approved by the voters on January the first of next year, and then the levers that we worked with that met the approval of visit Tulsa, the hotel years, the counselors and and those represented by the city of Tulsa in the room was to do 40% for visit Tulsa from January 1st, 2027 until January 1st, 31, then move that up to 45 percent, then after the bond is paid back to 50 percent.

Um there is a little bit of overlap with the TID, so the TID should provide a distribution throughout the 2027 calendar year of about three million dollars, which will give us a little bit of a buffer or a bridge so that Visit Tulsa actually has a million more dollars to use for a three-year period until we get to 31.

So for those of our partners in the room, um everybody said, hey, this is the best possible option that we could create with the numbers and the data that we have.

Um I'll be the first to say that uh there's a lot of assumptions made in that spreadsheet.

There's a lot of growth numbers and input, the tourism economics input.

We don't know where the bond rate's going to be when we go out and issue those bonds for the renovation of the facilities, but our best estimates is that this will work best and in the most balanced way for the various entities that we have that will benefit from this, and then ultimately create um really rich investments back into the city and cause visitors to come here and spend that four million dollars a day, which we've already been briefed on.

Any questions about that process, those numbers?

Any additional comments from my colleagues that were part of this?

Great job.

Thank you.

That's great.

Okay, all right.

Um questions.

I think I may have one, but the presentation I appreciate.

I am um was curious how we got to the 9.9.

My question in the back of the document we read it, we said um that uh Tulsa Public Facilities Authority for the renovation and upgrade of RVS, BOK and other associated um uh refunding bonds.

So when I think about the facilities, I think about it as a like a bucket inside you have the RVS, yeah.

BOK Tulsa PAC is the future motel of the future hotel connected to the convention center a part of that bucket as well.

So the convention hotel um the fourth phase of capital improvement renovations for our vest could be related um to a convention hotel there, um, but that's probably why that series of bonds gets issued later until that until that plan is finalized.

Um does that help answer your question so part of this revenue could helps us to um sustain or to not about not quite in the same way.

Um so these revenue bonds would be to pay for the BOK updates and the RIS update.

So only those two.

Um if there is a convention hotel, um could be a there could be a package that has an uh like a hotel tax rebate type thing.

Um but we're still working through some of those, and um remember there there's the difference between privately owned and publicly owned hotels, so still working through these, but the revenue bonds that were in the presentation that 80 million, that's for BOK and RVS center.

So you go on a questioning.

So if we're gonna be paying for $80 million worth of renovations to those two facilities with revenue from this hotel tax, there will be a time when we're not repaying those funds.

Yeah, and so but but that could be 10 years from now, that could be 16 years from now, it just depends on a lot of things that we try to incorporate into the spreadsheets.

But if you change the number by 25 basis points by a quarter of a percent, you get a totally different outcome.

So we've we've done our best, and that's really the best anybody's gonna be able to do.

All right, that's good.

Anyone else, counselors?

Yeah, just following up on your single comment.

So this convention hotel, we don't even know that that's a I mean, I thought that was gonna be an outside developer tooling it.

Yes, has that been decided?

We're not going to pay for that.

We're still in that process.

Yeah, it's still on the process.

So that's not really not a part of this.

No.

No, just if the convention hotel happens, it it it would be opening the projected opening date is in 2032, and we're just we were really listening to visit Tulsa saying, hey, we the the more money we have, the better we're able to bring people into Tulsa, and if there's 300 or 400 more rooms because of the convention hotel, then it helps them sell more in TELSA because there's more capacity in the city, but capacity is coming through things other than that convention hotel possibility.

Anyone else?

If there aren't any other questions, I was just gonna go over kind of the procedural next steps.

So there's two ordinances, one resolution.

The resolution is the resolution calling the election, and they all have emergency clauses on them.

Um the two ordinances, one reflects the 9.9% rate, the other ordinance reflects that phased approach that was on the previous slide.

Um, and so the ordinances will be on first reading tonight.

Um, and and with your all's permission um on the 22nd for a vote on both of those ordinances and the resolution.

Um the election um would be called for November 3rd.

Okay.

That is it.

Unless somebody has a question.

Uh councillor Engel.

Yeah, so obviously I'm just gonna echo what my other colleagues said.

Thank you for all the work from all our partners, then uh our spreadsheet nerd who really did a great job.

I mean, uh as I'm sitting there watching just that one person or that just a shift of the percentage change some of the outcome.

There are things that we're just not gonna be able to predict.

So that spreadsheet was the best tool that we had to kind of figure out how this formula might work out.

So I do want to emphasize two things that are important to me.

One is the potential of paying these bonds off sooner, right?

Um, which is the savings to our citizens, and then of course the not making this investment or go into this level, number one doesn't make us competitive, but anybody that comes into our facilities, that's the impression they leave with.

And so we have to make this investment.

So I hope the citizens understand this isn't like counselor Gilbert said, a tax at the grocery store or taxing.

This is our visitors paying that tax, and we're spending their money on our facilities and making those investments so that we can get them back into town to spend more of their money, and we're just creating that repetitive cycle.

So I appreciate the work of everybody to get to this over you.

Just real quick clarification.

The spreadsheet nerd was my 11th month old Grandson.

Actually, he did do a lot of the list.

Oh, he wasn't messing with it in the nine nine early.

He was verbal in several meetings, but it's important.

It was not a quorum.

Counselor.

I will say, just to Counselor Bingo's point, you know, there's there's other ways to go about renovating the BOK Center and the Convention Center.

But I don't think there's other ways to do that without taxing our own citizens.

Yeah, this is a and so they have to be renovated.

There is no doubt we cannot live on technology that was created and installed at the same time that the first iPhone was being rolled out.

That just doesn't make any sense.

So we have to update it.

We have to update the seats.

We have to update the convention center.

Those are cash cows for us.

They are they are they are helping to repave our streets.

They are helping to do everything that our citizens are asking us to do.

So this is the best mechanism to do it.

We are actually just saying, hey, if you're coming in and using our facilities in Tulsa, you're gonna pay a little bit more of that.

So you do so they're getting to use NICE facilities, but we as citizens are getting to use NICE facilities as well.

So it's a real big benefit for us.

Counselor.

Yeah, I wanted to echo everything my colleagues said, and thank everyone for this has been such as was emphasized at the beginning, such an intentional collaborative, deliberate process, um, even prior to the months where we were all coming together, including with so many stakeholders, um, to really do deep dives on the finances with so much precision.

Even prior to that, I got to work with um people in this room and colleagues at the table to revise the um existing lodging tax exemptions and things like that more than once.

Um and you know, really making sure we are bringing stakeholders along with us.

And I do want to highlight again what counselor Lakin just mentioned that you know um you know it's really hard when we're looking to find um funding for really critical city assets and resources, um, especially in a moment where there's you know such an affordability crisis, and so many people are struggling to make basic payments, and I'm so grateful that we've been able to really intentionally with a great deal of precision leverage this mechanism that's not more of a cost burden on families that are struggling, and so I'm just excited to see what this can generate.

And I want to re-emphasize um what was that ROI number for every dollar invested in tourism?

One of the 162 dollars that comes back right into our city's economy.

So that's just really exciting, and I'm really grateful for everyone's patience throughout the process.

And Sarah, thank you so much for all of your cohesive collaborative work.

You've carried this, and we couldn't have done it without you.

Council staff did a lot of work in this as well.

Well, also Megan's phenomenal design work, Marissa Marissa's design work and policy research, and of course, Phil's spreadsheet, but most importantly, an 11-month-old who really was the cheerleader.

What is the between now and uh November?

How are we gonna how are we communicating with the public?

Uh so we'll um as a city employees, we still continue to provide information.

Right.

Um, and so if anybody has questions, we'll still continue to leave those avenues on the board um active.

So if somebody has a question, um I've answered some questions for people that have emailed in.

And um, and then also um we we aren't involved in any sort of um formal campaigns because we just want to provide information to the public from there.

Okay, all right.

Anyone else, anyone else?

Well, it wasn't that long of a meeting, I think.

I don't know.

Pretty well, it was pretty good.

Okay, should have all time more clean standards.

All right.

Well, thank you all so much for being here.

We'll be back at 2 30.

But uh with that, our last item, we are adjourned.