Update 10:40 p.m. June 8: The council voted against an amendment that would have allocated $1 million for participatory budgeting just over four hours into Tuesday s budget meeting.
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Norman Police Department supporters fill the Municipal Building ahead of the June 8 City Council meeting. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
It was a long night at Tuesdayâs Norman City Council meeting, where members faced a crowd ready to discuss 14 budget amendments in a meeting that stretched past midnight.
After two hours of meandering discussion on an agenda item regarding stormwater, Mayor Breea Clark tried several times to move the item to a vote. Meanwhile, a room full of frustrated residents dipped into their snacks and groaned as councilorsâ questions kept on.
The amendment for which crowds gathered and packed into the council chambers was a $500,000 reallocation from the Norman Police Departmentâs proposed budget toward a mobile crisis response unit. Most of those seated in the chambers were with Unite Norman and support fully funding police departments, while a smaller number inside the Municipal Building suppor
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May 11, 2021
A commissionâs review of the Norman City Charter explores the recent councilor recall process and demonstrates the crisis it would have created had the effort to unseat five been successful.
The Charter Review Commission (CRC) was scheduled to meet Monday to discuss changes to the recall petition process, but canceled its meeting due to a lack of quorum. The commission rescheduled for the following May 17.
The agenda contained several possible solutions to concerns that the 2020 recall petition drive created. Unite Norman attempted to recall then-Ward 1 Kate Bierman, Ward 3 Alison Petrone, Ward 5 Sereta Wilson, Ward 7 Stephen Holman and Mayor Breea Clark, five voting members of the eight-member dais.