March Transportation Commission meeting scheduled for Monday, March 6

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s mon­thly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, March 6, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21^st 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:

• Secretary of Transportation and ODOT Executive Director Tim Gatz and commissioners will welcome newly appointed At-Large Commissioner Michael Junk.
• Secretary Gatz will update commissioners on an $800,000 emergency bridge repair the US-412/I-244 bridge to Tisdale Expressway in Tulsa.
• Commissioners will be briefed on the department's partnership with HALO (Hydrogen in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma) and the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy and Environment's hydrogen hub efforts.
• Commissioners are expected to vote on whether to award several contracts, among them, a combined estimated $40 million in resurfacing projects statewide, including US-69 in Muskogee and Atoka counties and a resurfacing project on I-40 in Oklahoma City from the John Kilpatrick Turnpike east three miles.

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)
• 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.