Norman City Council approves 2026 budget, adopts county hazard-mitigation plan and passes building-permits ordinance

The Norman City Council approved the city’s 2026 budgets, including the Water & Sewer budget, and adopted a county hazard-mitigation plan and a new ordinance governing building permits and fees at its Dec. 29 meeting.

Councilmember DeeDee Ethridge moved to approve the 2026 budgets; Chandler Thomas seconded and the motion passed. Shortly afterward Chandler Thomas moved to approve Resolution No. 2025-4, adopting the 2025 Montgomery County Hazard Mitigation Plan; Roy McKamie seconded and the resolution passed.

Karen Tardiff presented Ordinance No. 2025-2 to establish building permits and fees. The council voted to waive the ordinance’s second and third readings on a motion by DeeDee Ethridge, seconded by Roy McKamie. The council then voted to approve Ordinance No. 2025-2 (motion by Roy McKamie, seconded by DeeDee Ethridge); the motions passed.

The meeting record does not specify effective dates for the ordinance or budget line-item details in the transcript; those details are not recorded here and are noted as not specified in the minutes. The council’s actions put the 2026 fiscal plan and the permit-fees ordinance into effect per the council votes recorded in the meeting minutes.