City staff is evaluating our snow and ice route plan. Summary The Public Works Department feels it is necessary to increase its pre-winter inventory of road salt from 4,000 tons to 6,000 tons to prevent a recurrence of the shortage experienced this winter. Consideration will be given to the purchase of snowplows to aid in snow and ice removal, although the City will continue to rely heavily on private contractors to supplement City forces during periods of extreme weather. Additional equipment resources in other city departments can assist in extended severe weather events. And finally, the route designations for snow routes are being reevaluated to provide a more realistic and informative means to advise the citizens of Oklahoma City on our priority clearing efforts and for reporting our progress.
Staff is available if additional information is needed.
Detailed information pertaining to sales and use taxes by fund is provided on the attached spreadsheet. May sales tax collections are significantly above target as a result of the implementation of a new law, which modified payment procedures for major taxpayers. Senate Bill 984 was signed into law in May 2000 and was originally scheduled to be effective with the April sales tax check. Earlier this year the effective date of this bill was delayed one month to provide additional time for implementation. This bill amended previous statutes relating to the payment of sales tax, requiring major taxpayers to begin remitting sales tax twice a month.