The most important and expensive financial decision in Greenwich in 2025

It's the RTM not rejecting the $444M Greenwich Public Schools teacher's contract (its Greenwich's largest ever financial commitment)

On October 27th Greenwich’s town legislature considered rejecting a three-year $444 million labor agreement the Board of Education reached with the town’s public school teacher’s union. By a 129-32 vote the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) used a procedural motion to let the agreement take effect without a vote on its merits. State law gives the RTM the ability to reject the agreement as a check and balance; but in that event: at final arbitration or in state court the agreement would likely be enacted anyway.

While the RTM vote was performative, representatives expressed frustration with the BOE’s negotiating process and their intra-town communications about the agreement, which was reached after state-mandated arbitration had already begun.

“I think it’s a good contract for the teachers, I think it’s okay for the town,” said Josh Brown, the chair of the RTM’s Labor Contracts Committee. “We just wanted to also articulate that this is a frustration about the process.”

More details in the Greenwich Time.