Step Up Tulsa! = Tulsa Talks = Vision 2025?
By Amanda Teegarden, Co-Founder of OFSA, OI & ET
November 10, 2005
Watching TGOV at 9:00 pm tonight (11/10/05) I saw what appeared to be a re-run of something called "Step Up Tulsa!" with Karen Davis and Phil Lakin being interviewed in front of a Tulsa backdrop. I don't know the date of the original airing.
"Step Up Tulsa" sounded like a Vision 2025 version of community planning, using the Tulsa Talks process we just went through....
150 stakeholders would be 'facilitated' to come up with vision planning ideas for Tulsa.
Some points:
- The 'specialist' they conferred with was Tyler Norris (sp) who has addressed over 350 of these such efforts, in the US and elsewhere. (I just bet he has).
This whole thing sounds like a re-run of Vision 2025 overlapped with Tulsa Talks process.
- Three legs of the project are:
1) Corporate
2) Philanthropic
3) Government
- Three focus areas are:
1) Human Development
2) Economic Development
3) Social Capital
- Support provided by the "Funders Roundtable" - a network of financial members.
- *Funded by Tulsa Community Foundation. (I looked this up...located at 7020 S. Yale, Suite 220, phone 494-8823. This is Phil Lakin's group. Tulsa Community Foundation is a member of OCCJ)
- Facilitated meetings, to get feedback from 5000 Tulsans
- The stakeholders are a really diverse group of people, not all white guys.
- Committees identified the core 150 'stakeholders' - these are the leading group members
- Three co-chairs are:
1) Kathy Taylor, Sec. of Commerce and Tourism
2) Sam Combs (or Coombs) of ONEOK
3) Jim Adelson, CEO of a corp. and an emerging philanthropist.
- There is a Communications Committee that diseminates information to the community. And a Civic Engagement Committee that goes out to meet the people, like in schools, libraries, non-profits.
- Help to develop "multi-use" living areas.
- The stakeholders have an understanding of where we are, what are assets are, go out to the committees, and ask 'How important is transportation?" The transportation needs of the north side would be different than elsewhere, for instance.
This whole thing sounds like a re-run of Vision 2025 overlapped with Tulsa Talks process.
Here's the link for Step Up Tulsa. The only thing on the site is "Taking Bold Steps To Make A Great City Even Better" and an email link.
Here is a link I ran across from the GLBT crowd, which mentions the Tulsa Community Foundation (at the very end of the article) as a place to seek assistance with funding.
Operation Information
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Operation Information is the home website of a coalition of concerned citizens dedicated (determined) to uphold and support an educational system that stands on traditional, conservative American values. We are also determined to expose the city, state and federal agencies that have partnered with the United Nations to subjugate our American sovereignty
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We believe in a Biblical world view, teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, and the passing on of our American culture to our children. We also believe that federal control by any means (directly or indirectly) is unconstitutional.
Since as parents we pay for the schools, our children attend them, and we as parents are Biblically responsible for our children, local control of our schools/education of our children is not an option, it is mandatory. As parents and citizens we also pay taxes that are being misused by our elected officials for agendas that are contrary to our constitution.