Ways and Means holds hearing on Boston Public Schools bus monitors contract and $1.05M funding transfer

On April 1, 2026, the Boston City Council Ways and Means Committee held a virtual hearing on two related dockets (0619 and 0620) that would move $1,046,178 from the city's collective bargaining reserve into the Boston Public Schools (BPS) budget and add a supplemental FY26 appropriation of $1,046,178 to cover terms in a new collective bargaining agreement with United Steelworkers Local 2936 for bus monitors. Chair Ben Weber opened the hearing and said the terms cover roughly 700 bus monitors and run from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028.

Budget Director Jim Williamson told the committee that the city maintains a collective bargaining reserve for settled contracts and that these dockets would transfer the specific amount into the BPS appropriation to meet the contract's FY26 obligations. Williamson provided a fiscal breakdown showing the FY26 cost as $1,046,178 and a cumulative three-year cost of roughly $5.9 million.

BPS officials…