A $23 million bond issue, along with supplemental private funds, will be used to replace an emergency children’s shelter in Tulsa built in the 1940s, as well as other building projects around the state.
Plans for the Tulsa shelter include building three cottages and an administration building on 20 acres in northeast Tulsa. The three cottages would have 42 beds and three cribs.
Tulsa Advocates for the Protection of Children is working with the Tulsa Community Foundation to raise $4.5 million to build a fourth 16 bed cottage that would be designed for infants and toddlers, as well as furnishings, playground equipment, an outdoor basketball court and private fencing.
Aside from the shelter, DHS plans to spend $6.3 million from the bond to buy and renovate a 33 year old office building, also in Tulsa, in part for DHS employees who help the developmentally disabled.
Also, the agency will spend about $4.5 million to build a DHS county office building in Ada and some $4.4 million to build a similar facility in Sapulpa.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
by Bud Elder