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Flint board ratifies two-year United Teachers of Flint contract in special session

Flint Board of Education · November 20, 2025

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Summary

In a special session Nov. (date not specified) the Flint Board of Education voted 5–0 (two absent) to approve a two-year contract with the United Teachers of Flint; union president Karen Christian thanked the board and urged a positive implementation.

The Flint Board of Education approved a two-year contract with the United Teachers of Flint (UTF) after a special meeting and roll-call vote, the board announced. The motion to approve the UTF contract was moved and seconded and carried by a recorded 5–0 vote with two trustees absent.

Karen Christian, president of the United Teachers of Flint, addressed the board before the vote and thanked members for finishing bargaining and urged a positive outcome from the board’s closed-session discussions so the collaboratively negotiated two-year agreement could be finalized. “I’m here tonight just to express our gratitude…we hope that as you go into closed session that we have a positive outcome…so that we can have this two-year agreement that we have collaboratively come to,” Christian said.

The board recessed into closed session earlier in the evening for attorney–client privileged discussions and reconvened at 6:11 p.m. to consider and vote on the UTF contract. The roll-call vote recorded "yes" votes from Trustee Rutherford, Trustee King, Vice President McIntyre, Secretary Perkins and President McNeal; Charlie Lund and Trustee Boole were recorded absent for the vote. President McNeal announced the outcome as five yes, two absent.

The board did not specify budgetary impacts or implementation details during the public portion of the meeting. Board leaders said further follow-up will be handled administratively and through scheduled board communications.