September Transportation Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 6

September Transportation Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 6

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s monthly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21^st St., Oklahoma City. Members of the public and media may attend or watch the livestream video online.

Items to be addressed at the meeting:

• Secretary of Transportation and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Executive Director Tim Gatz will update the commission on Oklahoma Transportation’s receipt of $191 million in federal Redistribution Funds and how it will be considered.
• Gatz will recognize the upcoming observation of Rail Safety Week Sept. 19 through Sept. 25.
• The commission will be briefed on a flood-related emergency repair project on US-62/75 over BNSF railroad near Okmulgee. They will be asked to vote on whether to award several contracts, among them a bridge reconstruction and repair project in Tulsa at US-169 and I-244/US-412 and I-244/US-412 over Mingo Creek for $19.2 million and a reconstruction project on US-270 near Seminole for $57 million.

The full agenda 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)
• Zoom (Link to meeting won’t be active until meeting is about to begin)
• 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.