Oklahoma
Oklahoma City Approves Pay Raises For Police To Help With Recruitment, Retention
The Oklahoma Metropolis Council has accepted a collective bargaining settlement that features vital pay raises for cops and recruits to assist entice candidates and retain hires.
Mayor David Holt defined that in accordance with state regulation, the town should negotiate with the Fraternal Order of Police on a CBA. The Metropolis Council handed the settlement on Tuesday.
Beneath the CBA, which retroactively went into impact on July 1, 2022 and can stay in impact via June 30, 2023, all ranks of cops (not together with recruits), will get an eight % elevate. As well as, officers of all ranks (besides police recruits) will get a one-time two % stipend
Police recruits will get a 24.6 % pay improve.
“We’re trying, clearly, at what similar-sized division across the nation are paying,” Holt stated. “However we’re additionally having to have a look at what opponents right here in Oklahoma are paying. It could be a a lot smaller division. But when it is in our yard they usually’re paying extra, particularly for brand spanking new officers, we now have to be cognizant of that.”
Holt stated the raises can assist fill some much-needed positions.
“I feel one in all our chief situation proper now that we’re challenged by is a normal labor scarcity that everyone’s having to take care of in each sector,” Holt stated. “And the best way it is impacted our police division is we now have over 150 vacancies. There may be a number of ways in which we’re attempting to satisfy that want. However one in all them definitely ties again to wage, particularly with the inflation that we have seen within the final couple of years.”
Holt stated recruitment is particularly necessary, on condition that in 2017, Oklahoma Metropolis voters handed a gross sales tax so as to add greater than 120 new officer positions.
“We have principally by no means fairly crammed these new positions and truly have even a number of extra vacancies on prime of that,” Holt stated. “Clearly, that is nonetheless a excessive precedence. We need to fulfill the guarantees that had been made in 2017. But it surely does take two. I imply, we acquired to seek out the folks to fill these jobs.
Holt and 5 council members voted in favor of the CBA, however three council members current at Tuesday’s assembly abstained.
“As we have a look at this FOP contract, I need to additionally be mindful the opposite bargaining agreements that we now have in place and put aside in order that we now have for FOP, I might count on that we proceed to take care of the identical work with our different bargaining, collective bargaining people that additionally need to see most of these agreements and enhancements with their contracts,” Ward 7 Councilwoman Nikki Good, who abstained from voting, stated.
Information 9 referred to as the three council members who abstained to ask why they didn’t vote, however we didn’t hear again from them as of Wednesday night.
Town stated the estimated value of the settlement, together with roll-up prices for FICA, retirement, and additional time, is about $9,435,918 above present prices.
Holt stated Metropolis Council additionally not too long ago accepted a seven % elevate and a 3 % stipend for the Oklahoma Metropolis Hearth Division and all metropolis staff.
Oklahoma football has one more shot to close out its 2024 season on a high note.
The Sooners (6-6) take on Navy (9-3) in the Armed Forces Bowl at 11 a.m. CT Friday in Amon G. Carter Stadium, located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas, with a chance to finish 2024 with a winning record. Oklahoma earned a clutch upset victory over Alabama on Nov. 23 to become bowl-eligible and keep alive the second-longest bowl streak in the nation.
The last time the Sooners played, LSU defeated them 37-17 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The team will look to bounce back and close out coach Brent Venables’ third year with a winning record. He has a 22-16 record with Oklahoma.
Watch Armed Forces Bowl live with Fubo (free trial)
Navy defeated Army 31-13 to earn the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy on Dec. 14, having defeated Air Force earlier in the season. The Midshipmen are seeking their first 10-win season since 2019. Navy is 1-0 all-time vs. Oklahoma, earning a 10-0 win on Oct. 2, 1965, in Norman.
Here’s how to watch the Oklahoma vs. Navy game, including time, TV schedule and streaming information:
What channel is Oklahoma vs Navy on today?
- TV channel: ESPN
- Livestream: ESPN app | Fubo (free trial)
The Sooners will take on the Midshipmen on ESPN. Courtney Lyle (play-by-play) and Rene Ingoglia (analyst) will be on the bowl matchup broadcast.
The game can also be streamed on the ESPN app (with a cable login) or Fubo, which carries the ESPN family of networks and offers select users a free trial.
Oklahoma vs Navy time today
- Date: Friday, Dec. 27
- Start time: 11 a.m. CT
Oklahoma and Navy will play at 11 a.m. CT at Amon G. Carter Stadium, located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas.
Oklahoma vs Navy predictions, picks, odds
Odds courtesy of BetMGM as of Thursday, Dec. 26
- ODDS: Oklahoma (-3)
- O/U: 43.5
- Moneyline: Oklahoma (-155) | Navy (+130)
Prediction: Oklahoma 24, Navy 20
Oklahoma football schedule 2024
- Friday, Aug. 30: vs. Temple (W, 51-3)
- Saturday, Sept. 7: vs. Houston (W, 16-12)
- Saturday, Sept. 14: vs. Tulane (W, 34-19)
- Saturday, Sept. 21: vs. No. 6 Tennessee* (L, 25-15)
- Saturday, Sept. 28: at Auburn* (W, 27-21)
- Saturday, Oct. 5: BYE
- Saturday, Oct. 12: vs. No. 1 Texas* (L, 34-3)
- Saturday, Oct. 19: vs. South Carolina* (L, 35-9)
- Saturday, Oct. 26: at No. 18 Ole Miss* (L, 26-14)
- Saturday, Nov. 2: vs. Maine (W, 59-14)
- Saturday, Nov. 9: at No 24 Missouri* (L, 30-23)
- Saturday, Nov. 16: BYE
- Saturday, Nov. 23: vs. Alabama* (W, 24-3)
- Saturday, Nov. 30: at LSU* (L, 37-17)
- Friday, Dec. 27: vs. Navy (Armed Forces Bowl)
- Record: 11-2, 2-6 SEC
* Denotes SEC game
Navy football 2024 schedule
- Saturday, Aug. 31: vs. Bucknell (W, 49-21)
- Saturday, Sept. 7: vs. Temple* (W, 38-11)
- Saturday, Sept. 14: BYE
- Saturday, Sept. 21: vs. No. 23 Memphis* (W, 56-44)
- Saturday, Sept. 28: at UAB* (W, 41-18)
- Saturday, Oct. 5: at Air Force (W, 34-7)
- Saturday, Oct. 12: BYE
- Saturday, Oct. 19: vs. Charlotte* (W, 51-17)
- Saturday, Oct. 26: vs. No. 11 Notre Dame (L, 51-14)
- Saturday, Nov. 2: at Rice* (L, 24-10)
- Saturday, Nov. 9: at South Florida* (W, 28-7)
- Saturday, Nov. 16: vs. Tulane* (L, 35-0)
- Saturday, Nov. 23: BYE
- Friday, Nov. 29: at East Carolina* (W, 34-20)
- Saturday, Dec. 14: vs. No. 18 Army (W, 31-13)
- Friday, Dec. 27: vs. Oklahoma (Armed Forces Bowl)
- Record: 9-3, 6-2 AAC
* Denotes AAC game
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Oklahoma State has plenty of talent to replace next season, but no one will be more difficult to replace than its star receiver.
Over the past few years, no one has embodied the OSU program better than Brennan Presley. Since he stepped on the field for the first time in 2020, he has been a symbol of consistency for the Pokes.
Although he has played significant roles on a couple of OSU teams that made the Big 12 Championship, he had no issues staying focused throughout the three-win campaign in 2024. In a season where it was easy to find the negatives in just about everything the Cowboys did, Presley remained a bright spot. Entering the season on the Biletnikoff watch list, Presley finished his final collegiate season with 90 catches for 767 yards and seven touchdowns.
The reason Presley will be so difficult to replace is not only because of his impressive numbers each season but also because of how consistent he has been at putting those numbers up.
His consistency led to him breaking the Cowboys’ all-time receptions record in 2024, becoming the first player to cross the 300-catch mark in an OSU uniform by ending his career with 315.
Without Presley out there to be a reliable target next season, there will be some growing pains for whoever suits up under center. Along with always being available for a pass, Presley could be used in a variety of ways.
While it wasn’t his best ability, Presley was also occasionally used as a rusher throughout his career. He ended his OSU tenure with 30 rush attempts for 160 yards and six touchdowns, with most of his carries used as a wrinkle near the goal line.
Of course, the five-year Cowboy was well-known for his ability to return on special teams. His most notable was a kickoff return touchdown in Bedlam in 2021, and 1,667 kick and punt return yards helped him break 5,000 career all-purpose yards.
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An 8-year-old Oklahoma girl is still missing in Texas after floodwaters carried away the family SUV on Christmas Eve.
According to local reports in Sherman, Texas, the SUV ran off the road into a drainage ditch before succumbing to the flood. The Sherman Police Department said six people were inside the vehicle when it crashed.
Four family members were rescued. CBS News reported that the missing girl’s father, Will Robinson, did not survive. Robinson was a coach for the Durant High School Lady Lions basketball team.
By the afternoon of Christmas Day, searchers had covered seven miles of creek in the area without success.
“We are shifting our focus into the county, targeting some possible locations where we have not looked to as yet,” the department wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “Our search will continue until dark today, then we will resume searching again (Thursday) before daylight.”
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