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Monticello board approves tentative 2025–27 teacher contract; settlement exceeds budget parameters
Summary
The Monticello Public School District board unanimously approved a tentative 2025–27 master agreement with Education Minnesota–Monticello. District staff said the settlement exceeds the district's budget parameters by about $135,000; the agreement includes retroactive pay, schedule changes and expanded stipends.
The Monticello Public School District Board of Education on June 15 unanimously approved a tentative collective bargaining agreement covering 2025–27 between the district and Education Minnesota–Monticello.
Director of Human Resources Rob Danakerd told the board the agreement was reached June 2, 2026, ratified by the union June 10, and recommended for board approval. "Of note, the settlement exceeded the district's budget parameters for settlement by approximately $135,000," Danakerd said.
The agreement includes a 1.9% increase on all cells for year one (retroactive to July 1, 2025) with step movement on Schedule A frozen for that year. District staff reported additions to Schedule C (including adaptive head coach, adaptive assistant coach, and FFA advisor) and the removal of a previously proposed limit on district contributions to HSA plans. District administrators also described amended HRA contribution amounts across four thresholds.
For year two (July 1, 2026–June 30, 2027), district materials show a 2% increase on all cells and schedules B, C, and D. The tentative agreement shifts certain longevity amounts (a $20 increase per step across four steps) and raises the district contribution for family and single coverage by $30 each. Danakerd also outlined 16 language changes — ranging from clarifications on lane-change credit and retroactive pay eligibility to revisions in leave deadlines, mileage/travel language, grievance/arbitration fee responsibility, and new contract appendices addressing open-house compensation and teacher flex-time.
District administration noted two nonbinding working groups will be established before the next bargaining cycle to discuss ECFE/preschool teacher status pursuant to statute and to examine potential salary-schedule modifications intended to address disparities across the pay matrix. Danakerd summarized the district's valuation of the two-year package in its presentation as "6.51 MSBA" (term shown in the board materials and read into the record; the transcript did not further define that label).
Board member Casey Root moved approval of the tentative agreement; Jeff Hegley seconded. The vote was 6–0.
What happens next: the board approved the tentative district recommendation; the contract had been ratified by Education Minnesota–Monticello on June 10 and will be implemented consistent with its retroactive dates and the timelines noted in the agreement.
