February Transportation Commission meeting scheduled for Monday, Feb. 6

The Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s mon­thly meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in the R.A. Ward Transportation Building, 200 N.E. 21^st St., Oklahoma City. Members of the public and media are invited to attend or watch the livestream video online.

Items to be addressed at the meeting:

• Secretary of Transportation and ODOT Executive Director Tim Gatz will update commissioners on a $750,000 emergency bridge repair on I-35 over SH-39 in Purcell, McClain County.
  
  
• Commissioners will be briefed on the “Fair Miles Oklahoma” financial pilot program that could help replace declining motor fuel taxes as a resource for infrastructure funding.
  
  
• Secretary Gatz will discuss the recently awarded $85 million federal National Infrastructure Project Assistance Mega Grant, the largest transportation grant in state history, for the reconstruction of the I-44/US-75 corridor in Tulsa.
  
  
• Commissioners will consider approving the final $22 million Off Broadway phase to construct new westbound I-44 ramps to northbound US-77 Broadway Extension with a direct connection from Lincoln Blvd. to N. 63^rd in Oklahoma City.
  
  
• Commissioners are expected to vote on whether to award several contracts, among them, an estimated more than $24 million pavement rehabilitation project on I-40 between the US-281 Spur in Canadian County and I-40 Business in El Reno, a $13 million reconstruction of SH-4 between SH-66 and Wagner Rd. in Yukon and a $1.7 million reconstruction of the First St. on-ramp to I-244 on the west leg of the Inner Dispersal Loop in downtown Tulsa.

The full agenda may be viewed here.

To watch the commission meeting video livestream:

• Ustream (Turn up the volume on your computer or other device and on Ustream)
• The meeting also will be recorded, captioned and available to the public online later.

The commission, a nine-member panel appointed by the governor and legislative leaders to oversee the state’s transportation development, awards project contracts for road and bridge construction on a monthly basis.