Norman board accepts clean compliance audit, approves two policy updates and hears public pleas from boosters and alumni
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At its Feb. 6 meeting, the Norman Public Schools Board accepted a clean compliance audit for 2024–25, approved revised communications and a new open-records policy, and heard public comment from a booster leader and a former board president urging different actions.
The Norman Public Schools Board of Education accepted its 2024–25 compliance (single) audit, approved updates to communications and open-records policies, and heard public comments urging both policy changes and support for district leadership.
Auditors reported a clean compliance opinion under Uniform Guidance after testing three major federal programs — American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Child Nutrition and Special Education — and said there were no compliance findings for federal awards. The auditor described that the single-audit compliance supplement was published late in the prior year, which delayed completion of the compliance procedures, but concluded the district received an unmodified opinion on compliance.
During public comment, Phaedra Zortman, representing the Norman North Band Booster Association, asked the board to revise a district policy that she said limits the booster club’s ability to plan major fundraisers. Zortman said boosters raise six-figure support annually for band and fine-arts programs and requested that approvals not be revoked on short notice and that decisions be made with 60–90 days' lead time when possible.
Tina Floyd, identified in the meeting as a former educator and former board president, urged the board to extend Superintendent Doctor Nick Maglorino’s contract, saying he has led successful programs in the district over nine years and that opponents should provide factual bases for objections.
The board approved two policy actions: revised Board Policy 2003 (communications), described as modernized language aligning policy with current practice and related regulations; and a new Board Policy 2017 (open records), which formalizes prior open-records procedures and updates fees for producing records (explicitly listing items such as USB drives). Both motions were moved, seconded and carried by affirmative votes recorded in the meeting.
Administrative staff reported on winter-weather operations, noting facilities teams spread more than 45,000 pounds of ice melt during recent storms and that the district is converting a professional-development day on April 17 to an instructional day to make up five missed school days. Staff warned the district had exhausted make-up days and that future closures would likely require remote instructional days if additional days are lost.
The meeting concluded after the board convened briefly in executive session to discuss the superintendent’s contract and then returned to approve the contract in open session.