Mayor G.T. Bynum on Monday announced the Resilient Tulsa strategy.
The multiyear program includes four overarching visions, within which are goals, followed by actions to achieve the goals.
Here is a rundown of the complete strategy:
VISION 1: Create an Inclusive Future that Honors All Tulsans.
Goal 1.1: Strengthen community cohesion by 2021 by amplifying the voice of historically marginalized communities and creating physical spaces that promote constructive dialogue.
Action 1: Memorialize Black Wall Street.
Action 2: Launch race reconciliation conversations in partnership with the faith community.
Action 3: Increase Citywide Participation and Recognition of Native American Day.
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Goal 1.2: Partner with Tulsa's increasingly diverse communities to shape our shared identity through new planning efforts, cultural assets, and neighborhood events by 2020.
Action 4: Pilot "Healthy Places" place-based initiative.
Action 5: Establish 918 Day.
Action 6: Invest in neighborhoods through Neighborhood Action Plans.
Action 7: Welcome immigrants into Tulsa's communities.
VISION 2: Equip all Tulsans to overcome barriers and thrive.
Goal 2.1: Break the cycle of incarceration and ensure fair access to opportunity for previously incarcerated Tulsans.
Action 8: Launch public campaign to demystify and humanize adjudicated Tulsans.
Action 9: Ensure successful execution of 2016 "Ban-the-Box" executive order.
Action 10: Strengthen relationships among police and communities through community policing improvements.
Action 11: Expand de-escalation policy in the use-of-force policy to reduce use-of-force incidents.
Goal 2.2: Decrease the racial life-expectancy gap by 2024 by improving mental and physical health outcomes for all Tulsans.
Action 12: Incentivize grocery store development in undeserved communities.
Action 13: Develop a healthy food environment coalition.
Action 14: Implement community health worker model.
Action 15: Increase the impact of the Educare Family Health Project.
Action 16: Invest in children's mental health.
Action 17: Champion mental health diversion programs.
Goal 2.3: Prepare all Tulsans, particularly socially and economically vulnerable populations, to weather adverse events.
Action 18: Develop resilience hubs in Comanche Park and River West neighborhoods while ensuring proper hazard response information is disseminated to the public.
Action 19: Prepare small businesses to reduce disruption in operations.
Action 20: Utilize Emergency Mobility Plan technology.
VISION 3: Advance Economic Opportunity for All Tulsans.
Goal 3.1: Prepare Tulsans for post-secondary education, workforce opportunities and fiscal health in order to shrink racial wealth gap by 2018.
Action 21: Launch citywide Teacher Appreciation initiative.
Action 22: Develop mayor's summer job program for students.
Action 23: Empower Bank$afe Oklahoma in Tulsa.
Goal 3.2: Develop local-talent capacity for jobs of the future.
Action 24: Partner with local institutions to address industry-specific skills gaps.
Action 25: Provide business support services to promote employment among adjudicated individuals.
Goal 3.3: Attract and retain high-growth industries in which all Tulsans have access to world-class jobs.
Action 26: Establish an Innovation District and Prototyping Zone.
Action 27: Market Tulsa for energy innovation.
VISION 4: Transform City and Regional Systems to Improve Outcomes for All Tulsans.
Goal 4.1: Design more responsive and transparent internal processes that promote proactive decision making through the increase use of data and community feedback by 2022.
Action 28: Institutionalize the city of Tulsa's Mayor's Office of Resilience and Equity.
Action 29: Embed Resilience in the Comprehensive Plan.
Action 30: Conduct implicit bias training for Tulsa's Police Department and all city employees.
Action 31: Diversify city recruiting and retention practices.
Action 32: Implement a Health in All Policies task force.
Action 33: Use Equality Indicators to support policy development.
Goal 4.2: Engage six neighborhoods a year to design more coordinated and responsive processes that effectively reflect and serve their needs.
Action 34: Formalize the Citizen Advisory boards and Citizen Actions groups.
Action 35: Launch City Hall-on-the-go.
Action 36: Improve city communications and engagement with all Tulsans.
Action 37: Develop linguistically accessible city documents.
Action 38: Create Tulsa Housing Policy Director position.
Goal 4.3: Champion improved policies across the region that advances Tulsans' well-being, starting in 2019.
Action 39: Invest in Mayor's Office for Strategic Partnerships for Mayoral Priorities.
Action 40: Lobby the state for municipal funding and optimize fees for service
Action 41: Advocate for the reform of expungment practice and licensing restrictions statewide.
