Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 45, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Page: 2 of 24
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handed, their computers are too old
and it's hard to enforce,” he said.
"They only have 15 auditors in the
entire state."
In Glenpool, City Manger Ed Tinker
says there are no delinquent busi-
ness owners. Still, he’d like to see
the commission do a better job of
collecting taxes.
“There's no telling how many mil-
lions of dollars the state misses out
on," Tinker said at a March 20 “Eggs
Over Issues" with state Sen. Dan
Newberry, R. "When you're getting
paid to do something, do it."
He added: “I don't want to withdraw.
I just want them to do a better job."
fee on the taxes that are collected,
not the taxes that are owed, he said.
The fee Is for collection and enforce-
ment, but Nunneley said the commis-
sion is not enforcing.
‘The Oklahoma Tax Commission
doesn’t enforce this with the busi-
nesses that are delinquent and the
town can't collect or even notify the
businesses that are delinquent,” Nun-
neley said. “We can’t pull their (elec-
tricity) meter until they pay their
taxes. We have no recourse."
Nunneley said some businesses ex-
hibit behaviors that are red flags, but
If businesses know how to "play" the
system, they can get away with it.
“If a business earns $1,000 a month
and only sends in 2 percent for tax-
es, the OTC will never know because
they don’t have enough auditors to
check it," Nunneley said. “But if a
business earns $1,000, sends in the
9 percent they’re supposed and then
drops to 2 percent, it will send up a
red flag. If a business always reports
$0, it will send up a red flag.
“There’s no oversight. Some busi-
nesses send whatever they want and
they are never audited. The state just
doesn't do a good job collecting."
Nunneley said he has been told de-
linquent businesses owe $116 million
to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
However, he said he thinks that is
one-fourth of it and it is probably
close to $400 or $500 Million.
“(The OTC) says they’re short-
$400-$500 Million
is owed, according to Man-
nford Town Administrator Mike
Nunneley
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be held April 23 at the
Cleveland Golf Course
and the city-wide garage
sale is slated for May I
The restaurant at the
Pier 51 marina will open
April 9 and the boat slips
are at 98 percent capac-
ity. There are boat slips
from 20 to 90 feet. The
marina recently spent $2
Million on renovations
and added two new sets
of docks. Some are golf
cart accessible and they
are the only marina with
a waste pump station
They have new gas
pumps and boat sales
and rentals. The marina
recently rotates their
fleet of boats to keep
them current.
son are represented, and
numerous hotels, the
Tulsa Ballet Theater, the
aquarium and the Bass
Pro Shop in Tulsa.
“We can do things like
this but every person
has a responsibility to
help put this together"
said chamber president
Rita Rougher. “We have
to spend a little money
for people to know where
Mannford is."
The summer months are
crucial for Mannford’s
tourism and anyone that
knows of any events that
need to be promoted can
call the chamber of com-
merce.
The chamber’s glow
golf tournament will
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the area and help boost
tourism. These books
and magazines are gen-
erated through adver-
tising revenue and busi-
nesses have to by ads to
get into the magazine.
A few Mannford busi-
nesses and the lake as-
sociation utilizes the
marketing group and has
pages In the magazine.
“We’d like to get more
participation," Stewart
said of her speaking at
the meeting.
The magazines also pro-
mote the areas events
that bring in the most
people and the web site
offers more information
than the print editions.
In these publications,
Mannford, Sand Springs
and Cleveland are
lumped in with the lake
and Stewart said a map
could help tourism even
more.
Green Country Market-
ing also offers maps of
a particular areas with
business locations and
events.
“It's an effective way to
promote the lake and the
area and they are fairly
inexpensive to make.
You can print 10,000 for
around $2,000," Stewart
said.
The coupon book is
shared with Tulsa and
Green Country. Half of
the book are Tulsa busi-
nesses and the other
half Green Country. The
books offer percentage
discounts, free items
and money off. For
Green Country, Miami,
Muskogee, Ponca City,
Claremore and Ft. Gib-
also got involved and pro-
vided eggs with candy and
free coupons for library
cards.
There were also toys
given away at the end of
the event and some lucky
kids got to take home toy
trucks, guitars and dolls
Everyone took home a
treat or two.
In the past, several
churches held their own
egg hunts but last year the
MMA decided to bring as
many churches together
to benefit the community
Jenkins said he was
pleased with the turnout
and said events like this
get bigger and better ev-
ery year.
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