The City of Jenks is filing a lawsuit against Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor and Public Works Director Charles Hardt over a proposed toll bridge that would run from 121st and South Yale in Tulsa to 131st and South Yale Place in Jenks. Jenks officials accuse Tulsa officials of stalling the project. The lawsuit alleges Mayor Taylor has not signed an engineering services contract that the City of Jenks needs to move forward on the bridge project.

Jenks city leaders say the contract must be signed in order for engineers to do very important studies. Jenks City Attorney Stephen Oakley says the contract has been on Mayor Taylor's desk since the end of April. He says he didn't want to take it as far as a lawsuit, but he has no other choice.

Construction costs are continuing to go up, oil prices as they go up, that's a cost for asphalt, et cetera, so, it's costing the project quite a bit of money by all of these delay tactics."

Both parties will be in court on October 23rd, at which time the mayor must sign the contract or give a good reason that she's not signing the contract. We contacted the City of Tulsa. They say they will not comment at this time because the court has not yet handed them the lawsuit.

The bridge has not been given the official go ahead just yet. The supreme court still has to make the final decision. Jenks hopes to get that answer by January.