Apparently Tulsa County Commissioner Bob Dick held a closed door meeting to garner support for the private toll bridge across the river(or perhaps to rally the troops, you decide). Attendees were Commissioner Dick, City Councilors Bill Martinson, Randy Sullivan and Tom Baker, Bixby Mayor Joe Williams, Jenks Mayor Vic Vreeland, Tulsa Mayor Bill LaFortune and his chief of staff, Clay Bird. Also in attendance was City Councilor Bill Christiansen. I hear that Christianson while not actually invited to the meeting, was in attendance.
Of particular interest to me is the revelation that the folks building the bridge are willing to give the City of Tulsa a cut of the profits. Both Tulsa County and Infrastructure Ventures Incorporated are willing to do almost anything to get this bridge built. If you had any allusions about this toll bridge being dead, you need to wake up. This bridge is far from dead.
This meeting, which was designed not to violate the open meetings act, concluded with plans for another meeting where specific details of IVI and the County’s proposal
will be tendered.
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