The Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) held its annual board meeting on August 27, 2026, to consider routine approvals, officer elections, a public art installation, a land sale contract, budget reports, and staff updates. All votes were unanimous.
Hi everyone. Um we at this meeting the board will consider discuss and may take action on, adopt, amend, reject, or defer action on any item listed on this agenda of our August Tulsa Development Authority annual board meeting. Um welcoming everyone here. I issue do you mind calling us to order? Yes. Carl Bracey? Here. Jennifer Griffin. Here. Ellian Hertada. Ashley Phyllison. Present. Steve Mitchell. We have a forum. Wonderful. Item number two, we're gonna review the consent agenda and request to remove any items from consideration. And because there are no requests to remove any items, going to item number three, the consideration of consent routine and repetitive item for discussion, consideration and vote are minutes from August 3rd special board meeting and authorizing the TDA annual schedule for regular board meetings in 2027. Any discussion before I entertain a motion to approve hearing none. May I have a motion? Second. Yes. Carl Bracey? Yes. Jennifer Griffin? Yes. Ashley Phillips, that's it. Yes. Motion approved. Of course it's weird. Roll call. We mentioned uh Elian. Uh but she is I think she's designed. And she's waiting for a reappointment, so I don't keep calling her name, but this is appropriate. Legally, why do we should be actually taking off? It's without effect if she's resigned, call her name, doesn't matter if she's not here to vote. But the I was just looking in the bylaws before this meeting. Uh and really the mayor is supposed to appoint a uh replacement with approval of city council. So it's the mayor shall do that under our bylaws. So we need to uh follow up there, encourage the mayor to fulfill that duty so we have a full roster, especially as trouble we have having a quorum sometimes, you know. Okay. I was talking to Renee. We need to I have some recommendations on some updating and amendment of our bylaws anyway that probably will have that on the September agenda. So we can push that along. Thank you for that action commitment. Um thank you. We're gonna move on to item number four, skipping on to item number five with Granita, the election of officers, our secretary, our assistant secretary, and treasurer. So since this is our annual meeting, we of course need to assign our officers. So we have um Aisha as secretary, Erica as assistant secretary, and Lynn as Treasurer. So they've all willfully um agreed to keep their positions, and we're looking for approval. Thank you so much for um offering to continue in this capacity.