Mayor Crawford started the "buck stays here" campaign, one-stop permit processing office, and the Buy Tulsa business hotline. He created a public-private economic development Commission as well as the Business Action Center. He started the Mayor's Office for Neighborhoods and pushed for economic development.ĭick Crawford's top priority was economic development. Mayor Randle was re-elected in 1990 by the largest margin in Tulsa's history. In 1992, he hosted the Sister Cities International Conference which had 1,500 delegates from 40 countries. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese and frequently hosted ambassadors and international dignitaries. Mayor Randle was known as the International Mayor. There had been several attempts over 35 years to change the commission form of government which was established in 1908. Randle led the effort in 1989 to change Tulsa's charter to create a mayor-council form of government. Mayor Savage worked on environmental issues, implemented neighborhood programs and helped create city design. She helped put together a regional strategy for a multi-purpose model for transportation planning. Mayor Savage led Tulsa's efforts to protect the raw water supply and worked with public-private partnerships to improve solid waste services and air quality programs. She won a special election to continue being Mayor of Tulsa. Chief of Staff under Mayor Randle, she served two years of his unexpired term when he left office. Susan Savage was Tulsa's first woman mayor. Although numerous important educational, medical and recreational facilities were built as a result, the flagship was the BOK Center, an 18,000 seat multipurpose arena designed by world-renowned architect, Cesar Pelli.
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Eventually leading the city to a full economic recovery, he also spearheaded the effort to successfully pass an $885 million capital improvements package known as "Vision 2025." Mayor LaFortune built a once-in-a-lifetime coalition, bringing together all elected officials, local governments, business leaders and neighborhood advocates to unanimously support the package.
Mayor Taylor led the passage of the largest investment in streets in Tulsa's history.īill LaFortune inherited a city in the midst of a severe economic downturn. She created the Mayor's Mentoring to the Max program, which connected mentors with more than 700 students at 18 area community schools.
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She helped launch the update of the city's comprehensive land-use plan, and worked to engage citizens to revitalize their neighborhoods. Mayor Taylor opened the BOK Center, brought the Drillers downtown to ONEOK Field, and consolidated City Hall to the One Technology Center. Combining a business and legal background with her time as Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce and Tourism, Mayor Taylor infused the city with a new kind of energy. Kathy Taylor was elected Mayor on April 4, 2006. Bartlett's workforce efforts resulted in a high school Aerospace Academy and many new jobs for the city. Unprecedented participation in citywide public meetings led to the approval of $1.5 billion in street improvements and other wide-ranging projects. Bartlett rejected historical and geographic divides that held Tulsa back for decades and developed strong bonds by attending 200 churches, insisting on "One Tulsa." Bartlett created the first-ever Public Safety Plan and led the charge for putting water in the Arkansas River. led an aggressive approach to lead the City out of financial distress during a national economic recession, reducing the size of government and conducting a business study resulting in a long-term efficiency program. Mayor Bynum and his wife, Susan, are the proud parents of Robert and Annabel - the sixth generation of Bynums to call Tulsa home.ĭewey F. Throughout his time in Tulsa city government, Mayor Bynum has focused on fiscal restraint, public safety, and infrastructure. He led the successful effort to enact the largest streets improvement package in the city's history, authored the first city sales tax cut in Tulsa history, crafted budget amendments putting Tulsa Police Department helicopters back into service and doubling the number of Police academies, authored legislation creating the first municipal rainy day fund in Oklahoma, and coordinated efforts to establish the first municipal veterans treatment court in the United States. During that time, he was elected as the youngest City Council Chairman in Tulsa history. Prior to his election as Mayor, Bynum served for eight years on the Tulsa City Council. Bynum was sworn in as the 40th Mayor of Tulsa on December 5, 2016.
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