How would you prioritize the needs to be addressed by the future City of Tulsa vision?

Street Improvements need to be done by qualified & tested companies with penalties for shoddy performance. Neighborhood projects are wasteful of public money. Proposed river projects by city officials have become tiresome. Leave it as a natural resource.

In the best of all possible worlds, our city and county would be the best in the nation in all factors that matter for a great city. But this is NOT the best of all possible worlds. I strongly feel that until our education spending, education placement nationwide, and our social services, mental and physical health, services spending, and infrastructure are pulled up into the top half of the country instead of our usual 48th or 49th place, that no amount of "prettification" will bring businesses and people here to stay for longer than a few years. Until we show that we value those things, our city and county will not prosper.

Tulsa city and county cannot control, for the most part, what the state chooses to spend on education. But we CAN use Vision tax money to shore up Tulsa city and county schools, and make sure they are the best, not only in OK but in the nation. I know the Mayor and city councilors don't seem to think that is a proper use for tax money but I believe they are wrong. I have lived here since 1971 and went to Jenks schools my whole young life, because they were the best rated in the state. Tulsa Public COULD be the best in the state if we lavished the money and time on it that it needs. After education, we need to work on spending for social services in Tulsa. Physical and mental health, those with disabilities, bringing ALL structures and public spaces up to code for those with disabilities, bringing low cost clinics to the poor and indigent, putting back and increasing the dollars spent on transportation all across the city, for disabled and not. Part of Quality of Life is safety and we desperately need a better Police and Sheriff's office, who CARE about Tulsa citizens, no matter WHAT color, sexual orientation, gender or previous criminal background.. We need to spend money on TRUE community policing, NOT just half measures between police and businesses, but between police and individuals on the streets, and not just in downtown. We need positive interaction daily between police and citizens in North Tulsa, East, South and West, NOT just downtown or Brookside or Riverside. If our police, not to mention our Mayor, spent more time in North Tulsa, learning the citizens that live there, getting to know them, we would not have such a high crime rate in North Tulsa. If officers were there 24 hours a day, there would not be so many shootings in North Tulsa. We need to dump our current "reserve deputy" program and model it after New York City, where they have over 6000 NON-ARMED reserve deputies who take over all KINDS of light, non-street duties at the city and county level, so the TRUE Police are out on the streets, day and night, all year around. Law Enforcement is FAR too important for it to be a hobby for reserve deputies, or to be able to buy your way into it. We need police who try everything else to de-escalate a situation before they reach for their gun. And we need law enforcement that realize that their jobs come with dangers, and if you cannot HANDLE the dangers without shooting every person that moves an inch in your direction, then it is NOT the job for you. The OSCN needs to be fully funded, maintained and expanded After all of those programs are set on track to be in the top half of the nation, we need to continue to use money for our city and county infrastructure, streets,highways, electric, parking STRUCTURES instead of lots (build parking up, NOT out), Once those are on the right track to be in the top half of the nation, THEN we can begin to prettify the city and county.

Our Mayor and City Council need to accept that if none of the above vital services are shown as being important for Tulsans, and thus for those that move here, no amount of spending will make our city great. The prettiest city in the world cannot succeed if no one cares about the PEOPLE and their quality of life, their health and safety and their ability to learn, grow and bring their great minds back to the city. You can entice as many businesses here as you can, but if none of us has the money or time to go shopping and spend at those businesses, they do not matter either.

I am greatly disappointed in the way you have defined your categories in the priority list. I have added to the Quality of Life category most of what is in my statement. You need to add a user defined category that we can add what WE want to put first, not just your own definitions.

As a student of economics I know that if you take care of the basic priorities of safety and infrastructure other private development will follow. Please stop wasting time on the river as it will only be a black hole that you poor money into.

Until Tulsa improves our streets, cracks down on the increased crime activity in our city, I don't see how our economic development can continue. As our population increases, so does the crime rate, and the streets need to be widened and traffic safety needs to be improved. As a person living in South Tulsa, driving on two lane streets during rush hour is unsafe. The population is increasing out here with more housing developments and apartment complexes and there are no plans for better roads. The hospitals and medical parks keep growing, and no roads! Broken Arrow has it right, they build the roads first, then the community afterwards. Tulsa could learn something from them. We need smarter bus routes, or smaller buses for lesser used routes. We need shelters for bus stops, and curb cuts for bus stops so the buses don't stop traffic. I have lived in a city with curb cuts and they work! As we repave our streets, add curb cuts!

Better streets and better schools are the keys to achieving all the other goals. Since the city has no control over the schools, most available resources must go to bringing our streets up to at least average condition. Progress has been made, but much more is needed.

Those of us living off East 91st and East 101st between Delaware avenue and the Broken Arrow boundary are still driving on two lane rural roads established before statehood of Oklahoma. We are fighting for our lives to simply make a left turn onto Sheridan, Yale, 91st and 101st. Yale South of 81st is actually slipping off the side of the hill. Safety is our concern. Unfortunately, the city has ignored this area so long that aesthetic issues now have to take a back seat to safety.