Making Tulsa a more equitable community is the city's latest data-driven endeavor.
The city and the Community Service Council have received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to look at data on education, health, housing and racial justice disparities. The first report will come this winter.
"We see this as being an annual release of data and information to share so we can check ourselves and see how we're doing toward erasing barriers that might keep our city from being the best it can be," said Heather Hope-Hernandez with the Community Service Council.
The $140,000 grant will fund seven months of work on an Equality Indicators Tool. The Community Service Council will look at a variety of indicators that will form an overall plan for city policies.
"For instance, location and public library availability, race and whether they have hot and cold running water in their house," Hope-Hernandez said. "So, there are a lot of different things we can count and use those as guidelines as we capture this data to start measuring the equality or inequality of certain areas in the city."
Mayor G.T. Bynum said the work will be a first step to getting rid of racial disparities in Tulsa.
"The issue of racial disparity in Tulsa is the great moral issue of our time in this community, and there's a desire in all parts of our city to play a role in addressing it," Bynum said at a news conference earlier this month.
The work is being guided by the City University of New York.
