Tulsa Police Talks:Nothing New
March 6, 2010
Police union leaders as well as city leaders had nothing good to report to the public concerning progress in negotiations to bring back 89 Tulsa police offers that were laid off a few months back.
Jim Twombly, Director of Administration met with Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 93 representative during the morning hours and will more than likely be speaking again next week.
The police union along with Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s administration has exchanged proposals for the former officers to be rehired this fiscal year ending June 30 but still have not reached an agreement. At this time, the next fiscal year’s labor contracts are under negotiations.
Jim Twombly stated, “I guess I would characterize this meeting as boring,” and went on to say, “It was very much about the nuts and bolts.” “There was some discussion about bringing back the officers, but I would say the bulk of it had to deal with next year’s contract.”
Twobly stated he can “safely say that both sides are keeping the option on the table.”
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge spokesperson, Laurel Ledbetter stated, “We’re kind of at the point where we are asking, ‘What do we do now?’”
The administration in February offered the police union a seventeen month proposal. In the proposal was a 5.2% cut in wages but it would not affect the pensions and other concessions. At this time, the union has not voted on the proposal.
The Fraternal Order of Police offered a counter proposal. The details have not been released except the information explaining the proposal only extended through the end of this fiscal year.
In the beginning, 155 police offers were to be laid off. Due to some agreements in negotiations, only 124 officers were laid off. The agreement that allowed 31 officers to keep their jobs were the officers that lived outside city limits would no longer take vehicles home and other restrictions. Thirty-five of those officers that were laid off were rehired February 1 with federal grant money.
Tulsa is still without the police officers they need and some services will not be met with an officer coming to the aid of Tulsans such as an accident without injury or an accident without another crime involved.
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It’s really a bad thing if you have not enough police officers.
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