Tulsa’s Vision2 Ballot Question Surrounded by Uncertainty

Logan Layden Bio Recent Stories Logan Layden is a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma. He is a native of McAlester, Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2009. Logan spent three years as a state capitol reporter and local host of All Things Considered for NPR member station KGOU in Norman and six years as a reporter with StateImpact from 2011 to 2017. Most recently, he was news director for McAlester Radio before returning to public radio in 2020.

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The Vision2 proposal is up for a vote Tuesday in Tulsa County. It’s a $750 million sales tax extension that would spread millions to the county and its communities for quality of life improvements of their choosing.

But the largest portion of Vision2 spending is earmarked for economic development, and most of that money will be used to modernize a city-owned complex occupied by bankrupt American Airlines.

The future of the airline’s presence in Tulsa, and of the base’s 7,000 employees, could be influenced by the vote, which tests the limit of how far a city will go to keep one of its largest employers.