The Kenosha Unified School District and teachers union may have settled on a tentative two-year contract Thursday night but not many details of that deal have been revealed yet.

Both sides met for two hours Thursday before agreeing to terms.

The Kenosha Education Association said teachers will receive a summary of the contract and then meet 4:15 p.m. Nov. 2 at Bradford High School to vote on whether to ratify the pact.

While no details were released, sources indicated the teachers agreed to a 2 percent pay raise the first year along with a higher deductible for their WEA Trust health insurance, but not the self-funded plan the district had offered.

It’s believed the district held the line on the amount of money available for raises and health care, and, in turn, allowed the union to use that money offered to come up with a pay and healthcare plan it was happy with that also would curb expenses.

Other details of the two-year contract have not yet been released.

The district and union held a joint news conference Friday morning and both sides said they were happy with the tentative agreement but wouldn’t discuss specifics until the contract was ratified.

Sheronda Glass, executive director of human resources, said the district wasn’t going to have to cut any positions or trim the budget further as a result of the contract, and the agreement falls within the parameters of numbers officials already had worked out.

District officials earlier told the Kenosha News during negotiations that the budget was balanced, contingent on teachers getting a 2 percent pay raise and agreeing to a higher deductible for health care, and if not, further cuts would have to be made.

“We made a commitment way back in May-June that we would not raise sizes in the classroom and we kept our word, we didn’t do that,” said superintendent Joe Mangi. “Both sides worked extremely hard for a long period of time to come up with a workable solution. And my hat’s off to their stick-to-itiveness and making this work.”

Joe Kiriaki, the KEA executive director, had earlier said the union was adamant in not wanting a self-funding insurance plan that the district would administer, citing concerns about costs and how it would be controlled. He and others in the union repeatedly said they wanted to keep the WEA Trust, which is run by the union.

He said Friday the health care proposal in the tentative agreement was one his members would be happy with.

“Clearly we talked publicly all along about health care, and a big part was the financial considerations,” he said. “We’ve come up with a fair and responsible approach.”

Although both sides had heated remarks for each other during School Board meetings while negotiations were ongoing, and it appeared talks were breaking down, Glass said the district and union continued to “work back and forth.”

Despite the earlier pointed remarks, Kiriaki said there is no animosity.

“It took hard work, and I wouldn’t want you to believe it all took place between 5 and 7:15 Thursday night, but it was critical efforts leading up to that,” he said. “It helped immensely that (Mangi) rolled up his sleeves and we could come to terms. I think (the animosity) is in the past, and I think last night proves that.

“It’s tough not to get passionate from day to day,” he said. “It did get tense for all of us and some things may have been taken out of context, but we are all committed to working together and rolling up our sleeves.”