The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s monthly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, May 5, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21st St., Oklahoma City. Members of the public and media are invited to attend or watch the livestream video online.
Items to be addressed at the meeting:
- Oklahoma Department of Transportation Executive Director Tim Gatz and commissioners will welcome newly appointed District 3 Commissioner Lisa Billy.
- Gatz will update the commission on the status of funding for the Heartland Flyer, a passenger train service currently operating in partnership with Texas.
- The department will receive a prestigious, national award for its successful partnership with Keep Oklahoma Beautiful, a Keep America Beautiful affiliate.
- The commission will vote on whether to award several contracts, among them a project to add shoulders to and replace a bridge on US-59 near Sallisaw in Sequoyah County and an interchange reconstruction project on the SH-7 Duncan Bypass at Elk Ave. in Stephens County.
The full agenda packet may be viewed here.
To watch the commission meeting video livestream: Ustream (Turn up the volume on your computer or other device and on Ustream). The meeting also will be recorded, captioned and available to the public online later.
The commission, a nine-member panel appointed by the governor and legislative leaders to oversee the state’s transportation development, awards project contracts for road and bridge construction on a monthly basis.
