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Apr 29, 2021 Shown is a house with broken windows caused by a hail storm that hit Norman Wednesday. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript Wednesday nightâs catastrophic hailstorm added to the list of damaging and severe weather events Norman has experienced over the past six months. The damage done Wednesday night was extensive, residents said. With hail bigger than golf balls ripping through the city and destroying windows, cars and homes, residents described the events of Wednesday night as surreal and frightening. âIt was so disorientating,â Ward 3 city councilor Alison Petrone said. âThere was this loud vibration of the roof getting pelted with enormous hail. Because it was so loud I assumed that it was a tornado, [so we] went into the storm shelter until it passed.â ....
The Norman City Council held its first public hearing of the FYE 2022 budget and declared May 2021 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month during its April 27 meeting. 8:45 p.m.: The council moved to open the first public hearing on the city s FYE 2022 proposed operating and capital budgets. A second public budget hearing is slated for May 25, Norman s director of finance Anthony Francisco said. According to a presentation from Francisco, the city expects $284,979,608 in total revenues and $249,358,192 in total expenditures. Francisco said the main expenditures are for services that go directly to Norman residents. Norman resident Stephen Ellis questioned the need for a 35 percent increase in the internal services portion of the police department s budget, comparing it to a 20 percent increase in the internal services portion of the general budget. ....
12 hrs ago From left, deputy city clerk Ellen Usry and chief city clerk Brenda Hall listen to councilmembers at Tuesdayâs Norman City Council meeting. Jeff Elkins / The Transcript More than a dozen residents signed up to make requests of the Norman City Council Tuesday as councilors consider the next fiscal year budget. Staff and councilors recalled the difficulty they have experienced in the past with drawing the public to hearings on the budget, but Tuesday night was a different story. âWe have hearings and practically beg people to come, and no one shows,â Mayor Breea Clark said. âItâs up to us to listen.â ....
1 of 2 Protesters interrupt the Norman City Council chambers on June 9, 2020, in the hopes of hearing the discussion on defunding the Norman Police. Council will re-vote on the budget Tuesday. Protesters hold signs during a City Council meeting, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, at Norman City Hall. (Kyle Phillips / The Transcript) Two local groups are making their voices heard to the Norman City Council and advocating different outcomes for a vote on the Norman Police Department budget. The Norman Collective for Racial Justice, formerly the Norman Citizens for Racial Justice, submitted an open letter to the council and Mayor Breea Clark asking them to uphold their decision from June 16, 2020 to reallocate $865,000 from the NPDâs proposed budget increase to community programs. ....
6 hrs ago Citizens listen during the Norman City Council meeting held Tuesday at Norman City Hall. The Norman City Council upheld its decision made in June 2020 to cut $865,000 from the Norman Police Department and reallocate that to community programs for the 2021 Fiscal Year. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript The Norman City Council upheld its previous decision to cut nearly $1 million of the increase to the Norman Police Departmentâs fiscal year 2021 budget Tuesday. The vote to remove $600,000 to community programs through two amendments passed 6-2, with Ward 6 Elizabeth Foreman and Ward 8 Matt Peacock voting against. The Ward 2 seat remains unfilled. Mayor Breea Clark, Foreman and Peacock voted no on a third amendment that reallocated $235,000 for a city auditor. ....