Mayor Monroe Nichols hosted another of his signature Community Conversations. Inside the Tulsa Tech Lemley Campus Oct. 21, Tulsas children and families were the topic of discussion.

In his opening remarks, Mayor Nichols said a city is judged by how it treats its children, so 2 News posed that question to Trisza Ray, a Tulsan who attended the event.

From my recent experience, [Tulsa does] not [treat children] very good, I dont think its an intentional oversight, but as far as healthcare, mental healthcare, we are very very lacking, we are very behind, we all know the difficulties that we are having with our education here in Oklahoma, we rank 50th in the country. Its unacceptable, Ray said.

Nichols had this to say.

I think were a community, obviously, that centers children very well. I

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