Bynum said officials, city staff and members of the public for more than two years poured work into the package proposal approved Thursday.

“We’ve had at least three different task forces working on this for two years,” Bynum said. “We have spent the last several months combining the work of those task forces. … We decided at the beginning of this process that we wanted any citizen who wanted to be involved to have every available opportunity.”

Ewing’s proposal on Thursday increased an extension of half of Improve Our Tulsa’s 1-cent tax by one year from previous proposals, which called for two-year extensions.

Ewing proposed using a portion of the $40 million to be raised during the extra year to shore up his proposed permanent transit tax against encroachment from street maintenance funding.

Ewing’s proposal also increases the package’s school projects.

Teach.Live.T-Town, a program to provide access to housing and professional development for Tulsa teachers, returned to $10 million in funding from $5 million after cuts on Tuesday.

A second project, designed to provide sidewalks and crosswalks near schools, returned to $14.5 million from $5 million.