Don't waste your time filling out this survey.
Thanks for the warning. So far, my time spent with the survey has been minimal.
I've received emails inviting me to participate. The emails have a link starting here:
http://vision2025.budgetallocator.com/Then, on that page, there are a few more links:
The first, to a list of proposed projects on a City of Tulsa website:
https://www.cityoftulsa.org/our-city/vision/submitted-proposals.aspxThe second, to Smart Growth Tulsa Coalition's (SGTC's) Vision 2025 Extension Proposal:
http://smartgrowthtulsa.com/a-vision-2025-extension-proposal/The third, to SGTC's privacy policy, which I didn't click, because the privacy policy link is followed by these words:
"Your individual project choices will remain annonomous, not even SGTC staff can see them. Your comments including your name however will be shared with Mayor Bartlett and the Tulsa City Council to help them construct a winning ballot. If you do not make any comments, your name will also remain annonomous." The fourth link is to the survey:
http://vision2025.budgetallocator.com/#baIf I do spend some time with the survey, it most likely will be from my own curiosity about how I'd allocate a certain budget, given the opportunity to make all of the decisions myself.
I won't use the survey in an effort to influence the mayor or any city councilors, however. I've discovered that they usually do as they wish, despite my opinion.
Update: I've made my first picks on the survey, and my total stands at $86 million.
My choices and a few comments:
1. Transportation / Rebuild the IDL, $63m (If I could choose only one proposal, it would be this one.)
2. Arts & Culture / National Art Deco Museum, $12m
3. Neighborhood Revitalization / Downtown Sealed Rail Corridors, $5m
4. Arts & Culture / Spotlight Theatre Rehabilitation, $4m
5. Transportation / Fund to widen sidewalks and install planters on bridges, $1m
6. Transportation / Safer School Crossings and Crosswalks, $500k
7. Neighborhood Revitalization / IDL Underpass Illumination & Beautification, $500k
I'm considering the Center of the Universe Multi-Modal or Travis Eslick's proposal for lowering or re-locating the east-west railroad tracks. For making connections north and south of the tracks, Eslick's idea is superior to the Center of the Universe Transit Hub proposal, but I'm not sure if it's ten times better at ten times the price.
If new dams are combined on a ballot with any of my seven choices above, I'll vote NO.
If the replacement of Zink Dam is combined on a ballot with any of my seven choice above, I'll most likely vote NO, but I'm not certain yet. Rationale: If Zink Dam is partially or completely demolished, then it shouldn't be replaced. I'd rather see the existing Zink Dam remain mostly as it is, with gates
lowered opened or removed.