It’s too bad that there are not any attorneys on the City Council or in the Mayor’s office. Otherwise someone might have gone through the master lease agreement for the new City Hall and noticed the small item about signage needing to be approved by BOK, even if it is signage by the property owner. I don’t really blame BOK for inserting that into the agreement as standard boilerplate, but someone on the City side should have caught it and added exceptions for the property owner, at least within some predefined parameters that could have been reasonably expected since we are going to use this for City Hall and the public and visitors might need something to clarify the location of the primary public entrance.

This is the kind of stuff that happens when everything is rushed through at the last minute. This is also the type of thing that causes many of us a lot of worry about other big agreements like the downtown ballpark trust.

Now, how long is it going to take to get the appropriate people at BOK and the City to show their PUD for the sign, negotiate the details and finally hammer out an agreement.

Kathy – get someone senior in your office to call someone equally senior in Stan’s or George’s office and get this thing done now.

If the property managers at BOK can’t trust the City to put up a reasonable and professional sign that will not degrade the leasing opportunites for the rest of the space, then we want our $7 million back. Once again, it sure looks like “Tulsa – a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of Oklahoma.”