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The City of Tulsa has a mayor-council form of government. This form of government has been in place since 1989, at which time Tulsa converted from a city commission form of government. The mayor is elected by the entire population and each of the 9 Councilors are elected from districts based on population. Tulsa is the county seat for Tulsa County.
The building was first occupied in 1917, finished construction in 1919 and was the seat of city government until 1969. [2] [3] The building was vacant between 1969 and 1973, when it was renovated by architect Joe Coleman. [1] [2] In 1975, the building was the second building in Tulsa listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [4]
Amanda Swope was born and raised in Tulsa where she graduated from Nathan Hale High School in 2006. [1] Her mother is former Tulsa City Councilor Connie Dodson. [2] She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Northeastern State University and her master's degree in public administration from the University of Oklahoma.
In January 2013, Taylor announced that she would run again for her old job as mayor of Tulsa in the 2013 election. [10] In the mayoral primary election on June 11, 2013, in which the city used a new non-partisan election system for the first time, Taylor finished first with 42.1% of the vote, ahead of Dewey F. Bartlett Jr., who had 34.2%.
Pat Woodrum is the former executive director of the Tulsa City-County Library System, a position she served in for 32 years. Since retiring from the library system in 2008, Woodrum has served as the executive director of the Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden in Tulsa.
In 1984, Young was elected Mayor of Tulsa by a 924 vote margin against incumbent mayor Jim Inhofe. [2] He served one term as mayor between 1984 and 1986. He negotiated the land exchange with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to build OSU-Tulsa and allocated $10 million dollars to expand the Gilcrease Museum.
The Tulsa metropolitan area, officially defined as the Tulsa metropolitan statistical area is a metropolis in northeastern Oklahoma centered around the city of Tulsa and encompassing Tulsa, Rogers, Wagoner, Osage, Creek, Okmulgee and Pawnee counties. It had a population of 1,044,757 according to the 2023 U.S. census estimates.
Tulsa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 669,279, [1] making it the second-most populous county in the state, behind only Oklahoma County. Its county seat and largest city is Tulsa, the second-largest city in the state. [2]