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Jan is currently a planner with the City of Edmond serving as the Community Connections Coordinator.

Kim Cooper-Hart. AICP, Vice-President

Kim is currently a planner with the Oklahoma City Urban Redevelopment Division.

Erik Enyart, AICP,  Secretary & Newsletter Editor

Erik graduated Magna Cum Laude from Missouri State University with a Bachelors of Community and Regional Planning.  

Erik began his planning career with internships with the Center for Resource Planning and Management, Springfield, MO and the Planning and Development Department, City of Springfield, MO, and later as the city planner for the City of Collinsville, OK.  He is currently the community planner for the city of Bixby, OK.

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Kim Cooper-Hart. AICP, Acting Treasurer 

Steve Boettcher, AICP – OKAPA Professional Development Officer (PDO)

Steve graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Masters of Regional & City Planning in 1979.   He also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography from East Central Oklahoma State University. 

 Steve began his planning career with a Tribal Government in Oklahoma, followed by two different positions in Kansas.  He worked for the City of Edmond, Oklahoma Planning Department for 19 years, primarily with current planning activities, the Edmond Public Transportation Committee, and the City of Edmond Community Development Block Grant program.  In 2001 Steve began working for the Indian Nations Council of Governments in Tulsa as a Housing and Community Development Planner.  At INCOG he works with the Metropolitan Tulsa HOME Consortium and the CDBG small cities grant program.  He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Tulsa County Continuum of Care.

Steve is the past Treasurer of OKAPA and a member of APA and AICP (1999). 

Jim Coles,  At-Large Member (Position 1)

Jim Coles is currently a Planner II for the City of Tulsa, Public Works and Development Department, Urban Development Division, Planning and Economic Development Section.  Jim graduated from Rutgers University with a B. A. in both Political Science and Criminal Justice and holds a Masters Degree in Architectural Urban Studies from the University of Oklahoma.   He began his career with the City of Tulsa in 1992.

Doug Moore, At-Large Member (Position 2)

City of Sapulpa 

Tom is currently a Senior Planner with The Benham Companies in Oklahoma City.  Tom is a 1975 graduate of Kansas State University’s Department of Regional and Community Planning and holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the same university.  He began his planning career as a Land Use Planner with the Lewis and Clark Regional Council in Bismarck. North Dakota.  In 1978 he moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma where he served as City Planner until 1990.  Tom then served as the Community Development Director for Blue Springs Missouri from 1990 to 1998.  Tom left Blue Springs for Farmington, New Mexico where he worked as the Development Services Administrator.  In 2002 he returned to Missouri to serve as Planning Manager for the city of Independence until joining Benham in 2007.

John Dugan, AICP - President

John is the past Planning Director for the City of Oklahoma City.