Ward 5 Norman City Councilmember Rarchar Tortorello will face former Councilmember and former Pike Off OTA president Michael Nash in a runoff election on Tuesday, April 4.
Ward 5 Norman City Councilmember Rarchar Tortorello will face former Councilmember and former Pike Off OTA president Michael Nash in a runoff election on Tuesday, April 4.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Norman Fraternal Order of the Police, deciding the Norman City Council violated the state Open Meeting Act in its June 16 meeting.Â
In that meeting, Norman City Council members voted to cut $865,000 from a proposed increase to the Norman Police Departmentâs budget. In December 2020, Carter County Associate Judge Thomas K. Baldwin ruled the council violated the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act because the language used in the notice released prior to the meeting was âdeceptively wordedâ and âmaterially obscuredâ the meetingâs purpose, not indicated clearly the action the council would take.