City Councilor Anderson Votes No on GO Bond Resolution

At Sapulpa’s City Council meeting on Monday, April 6, 2020, a resolution relating to part of the recently-passed G.O. Bond was the source of some contention. Long-time Councilor John Anderson disagreed with some of the funding and planning of Proposition 5, which concerns the Booker T. Washington Recreation Center and its access road improvements.

Anderson understood that one section of Gray Street (the north-south street that runs from Line to Dewey past the rec center) would be redone immediately but that another area of the street would not be fixed until after the construction of the new rec center, which could take as long as 6-7 years. He expressed serious concerns about waiting several years for part of the street to be improved and said that “delaying this when it does not have to be delayed is ignorant and unfair.”