KFOR: Oklahoma City Leaders approve plan to implement MAPS 4
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City’s City Council approved the MAPS 4 Implementation Plan during Tuesday’s council meeting.
The Implementation Plan includes the guiding documents for the program scope, project, scheduling and budget, according to an announcement from City of Oklahoma City officials.
The plan was developed by MAPS 4 program consultant ADG. It’s based on the 2019 MAPS 4 resolution, Finance Department sales tax projections, information from city staff and project advocates/operators, publicly available plans and data, as well as previous MAPS experience, according to city officials.
“The development of this MAPS 4 implementation plan has taken about the same amount of time as the MAPS 3 plan, and so above all I am grateful to everyone involved for keeping us on pace, even in the face of the challenging year and a half that we’ve experienced,” said Mayor David Holt. “I want to especially thank the MAPS 4 Citizens Advisory Board for its role in this process and its recommendation.”
Oklahoma City voters approved MAPS 4 – a debt-free public improvement program funded by a temporary penny sales tax expected to raise an estimated $978 million over eight years – in a special election on Dec. 10, 2019. MAPS 4’s temporary sales tax began April 1, 2020, and ends in 2028.
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