Councilors set off on tour of city

TULSA - Tulsa City Councilors will tour the city beginning Thursday, going district to district looking at each area's assets.

Councilors are looking at what issues different parts of Tulsa face.

The goal is for councilors to visit all nine districts by May before Mayor Dewey Bartlett presents his budget.

The tour begins in District 8, home to Councilor Phil Lakin.

Lakin says councilors will stop four times throughout the district, first near 61st and Yale to look at road conditions, then to the dog park at Hunter Park.

Councilors will visit the site where the new Cousins Park will be built as well as the area from Riverside to 121st, also known as Dead Man's Curve.

The idea for the city-wide tour was brought to the council by Lakin, who says a District 8 resident presented the idea to the councilor during his campaign.

"He said, 'I think it would be a good idea if you went and saw the good, bad and ugly with your own eyes and heard it with your own ears in every single one of our council districts'," said Lakin.

The group left on a bus from Warren Clinic at 61st and Yale at 9:50 a.m.