{"id":11181,"date":"2012-11-01T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=11181"},"modified":"2012-12-27T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:42:01","slug":"tulsas-vision2-ballot-question-surrounded-by-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/11\/01\/tulsas-vision2-ballot-question-surrounded-by-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsa&#8217;s Vision2 Ballot Question Surrounded by Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11196\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Wayne Thomas, power plant maintenance director at American Airlines' Tulsa base, says many of the hangers at the facility are outdated and in need of upgrades, or work will have to go elsewhere.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/wayne-thomas.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11196\" title=\"wayne-thomas\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/wayne-thomas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/wayne-thomas.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/wayne-thomas-500x351.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/wayne-thomas-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/wayne-thomas-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Thomas, power plant maintenance director at American Airlines&#39; Tulsa base, says many of the hangers at the facility are outdated and in need of upgrades, or work will have to go elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The <a title=\"StateImpact Oklahoma\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/tag\/vision2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision2<\/a> proposal is up for a vote Tuesday in Tulsa County. It&#8217;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.<\/p><p>But the largest portion of Vision2 spending is earmarked for economic\u00a0development, and most of that money will be used to modernize a city-owned complex occupied by <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/tag\/american-airlines\/\">bankrupt<\/a> American Airlines.<\/p><p>The future of the airline&#8217;s presence in Tulsa, and of the base&#8217;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.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vision2 proposal is up for a vote Tuesday in Tulsa County. It&#8217;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\u00a0development, and most of that money will be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":11196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,301,300],"tags":[861,293,862],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12076,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11181\/revisions\/12076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}