The city council voted to reallocate $865,000 from the city's police department and moved it to social service programs. Shall Sections 2, 5, 6 and 14 of Article II of the Charter of the City of Norman be amended to increase Councilmember terms from two to three years beginning with terms in 2026; to change the beginning of Councilmember and Mayoral terms from the first Tuesday of July to the first Tuesday following scheduled run-off elections beginning in 2026 for the Councilmember positions and 2028 for the Mayor position; and to require those seeking election to a Councilmember position to be residents of the ward for which they seek office for six months; and providing exceptions when ward boundaries are changed, as more particularly described in Ordinance O-2122-45? The fire department receives $16,788,906 from the general fund and $4,764,992 from the departments public safety sales tax fund. Normans new mayor will be Larry Heikkila, who is far to the right of the more progressive Clark, as he made clear in a campaign ad earlier this year. Norman mayoral Shall Section 1 of Article II of the Charter of the City of Norman be amended to increase the annual stipend for the Mayor from a maximum of $1,200 to $8,100 beginning in 2025 and for Councilmembers from a maximum of $1,200 to $5,400 beginning in 2025 and providing for a Compensation Commission to be appointed to determine any future increases every three years based on the consumer price index, the Citys budget, and other relevant factors, as more particularly described in Ordinance O-2122-45? January. Thursday, March 31st 2022, 5:58 pm. A new fire station will be built in Stillwater. She went on to encourage her supporters to stay engaged in local government and help heal the divide in the community. Mayor Breea Clark is seeking her first reelection since winning the race for mayor in 2019. The mayoral race came down to incumbent Mayor Breea Clark and challenger Larry Heikkila. Prior to his election as mayor, he served as the Chairman of the Excise Board and Equalization Board, Vice-Chair of the Tax Roll Correction Board and as a Member of the Industrial Authority for Cleveland County. The second proposition will fund additional school buses, activity buses and suburbans. Her tenure saw an unsuccessful recall attempt and death threats over coronavirus restrictions and the city councils decision to divert more than $865,000 from a proposed police departments budget increase to pay for social services to help the city's homeless, mentally ill and other vulnerable populations. Norman City Council Ward 3 member Kelly Lynn has forfeited his seat following the acceptance of judgeship in Wewoka, a judge found Thursday. Oklahoma has a handful of school board races to watch. Shall Article V be added, and subsequent Articles be renumbered accordingly, to the Charter of the City of Norman to create the position of Municipal Auditor to be appointed by the City Council by at least an affirmative vote of five members; to establish the City Auditors employment status as an at-will employee; to provide a process for an interim City Auditor to be appointed in case of the absence or disability of the City Auditor; to provide a process for Councilmembers to request discussion and/or consideration of the removal or suspension of the City Auditor to be placed on the agenda of a regularly or specially scheduled meeting; and to describe the duties of the City Auditor, as more particularly described in Ordinance No. The city electedfour new council members in 2021. The election was nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations did not appear on the ballot. An earlier version of this story contained a misspelling of Larry Heikkila's last name.
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