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Boston Public Schools Union Contract Funding

At a glance

  • What: Five pairs of mayoral orders (Dockets No. 1829 to 1838) would fund Fiscal Year 2027 costs of collective bargaining agreements between the Boston School Committee and five bargaining units, by shifting money out of the Reserve for Collective Bargaining into the Boston Public Schools budget. Combined amount: $517,253.
  • Where it stands: all ten orders were filed September 30, 2026 and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. No vote yet.
  • Next: a Ways and Means hearing and committee report; the police-union orders of the same day went through that process (see Police Detectives Contract Funding).

The five agreements

  • Boston School Police Patrolmen's Association: $268,887 (Nos. 1829, 1830). Contract term September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027; per the order, a 2% base wage increase in October of 2024, 2025 and 2026 and flat additions of $250, $900 and $800 to annual salaries in January of 2025, 2026 and 2027.
  • Boston School Police Superior Officers Federation: $111,802 (Nos. 1831, 1832). Term July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027; the same wage provisions.
  • SEIU Local 888, Professional Employees Chapter, Department of Planning and Engineering: $85,879 (Nos. 1833, 1834). Term September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027; a 2% base increase in September 2026 and a flat $800 in January 2027.
  • Boston School Department Plant Administrators Association: $40,365 (Nos. 1835, 1836). Same term and wage terms as SEIU Local 888.
  • AFL-CIO Council 93, Local 2814, Storekeepers and Stores Deliverymen's Union: $10,320 (Nos. 1837, 1838). Same term and wage terms. (Docket 1837 prints "Council 39"; docket 1838 prints "Council 93".)

Sources

Log

2026-10-06 - Ways and Means Committee

Ways and Means hearing on all ten orders. The budget director and school officials asked the committee to report them out; councilors voted nothing but signaled support, and the chair planned a committee vote the next day. Flynn asked about the Inspector General's report, laid-off paraprofessionals and the police-school agreement.

2026-09-30 - City Council

Ten orders (five reserve reductions and five supplemental appropriations) read and referred to Ways and Means; no debate or vote.

2026-10-07 - City Council

Ten orders appropriating about $517,000 for FY27 BPS contract increases passed after the Ways and Means report on the October 6 hearing: 12 in favor on dockets 1829-1832 and 11 in favor with one present (Julia M. Mejia, citing the state Inspector General's report on BPS) on 1833-1838. Flynn criticized the lack of information, and Weber noted no executed memorandum of understanding between BPS and the Boston Police Department had been provided.

  • 2026-11-04 - City Council - Nos. 2080 and 2081 (reduce the FY27 collective bargaining reserve by $787,501 and appropriate the same for the BPS custodians' contract, Local 1952 and Painters and Allied Trades DC 35, September 1, 2026 to August 31, 2027, 2% base increase plus $800) referred to committee without a vote.