Committee on City Service and Innovation Technology Hearing on Dockets 1244, 1245

Message and order for your approval an Order to reduce the FY23 appropriation for the Reserves for Collective Bargaining by Thirty One Million, Seventy Two Thousand, Twenty Nine Dollars ($31,072,029.00) to provide funding for the Boston Public Schools for the FY23 cost contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston School Committee and the Boston Teachers Union (BTU), Local 66, AFT Massachusetts.

Message and order for a supplemental appropriation Order for the Boston Public Schools for FY23 in the amount of Thirty Seven Million Six Hundred Seventy Four Thousand Three Hundred Thirty Seven Dollars ($37,674,337.00) to cover the FY23 cost items contained within the collective bargaining agreements between the Boston School Committee

and the Boston Teachers Union (BTU), Local 66, AFT- Massachusetts. The terms of the contracts are September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The major provisions of the contracts include base wage increases of 2.5% in September 2022, September 2023, as well as other cost items including inclusion reform implementation.

These matters were sponsored referred to the Committee on October 17, 2022.

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Public Testimony

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Staff Contact: Ron Cobb

Committee Email:  ccc.csit@boston.gov

Staff Email:  ron.cobb@boston.gov   Staff Telephone:  617-635-3040

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