Nichols talks sales tax rates, city funding needs and a conversation long overdue

Mayor Monroe Nichols plans to begin a community conversation about how the city can best ensure that it has adequate funding to address Tulsa’s myriad challenges, he said Friday. He’ll bring with him two reports — a comparative analysis of municipal sales tax rates in the area and a survey measuring potential voters’ thoughts about increasing Tulsa’s sales tax rate and issuing revenue bonds to raise those dollars. What he’s not ready to discuss is whether he plans to ask city councilors to call an election to vote on those...