San Diego

Negotiators for the San Diego Unified School District and the San Diego Teachers Assn. met for about two hours Tuesday, but they failed to reach an agreement on a two-year contract for the district’s 6,000 teachers.

Officials for both sides said that only proposals regarding the use of California Lottery funds and a new retirement fund for teachers remain to be resolved. Both sides said an agreement could be reached today.

“We have about three sentences between us,” said Ann Stombs, chief negotiator for the school district. “We’ve narrowed it down from four.”

John Felicitas, executive director of the teachers union, said union leaders are scheduled to meet today and could agree to a settlement if new proposals on contract language are acceptable.

“If there’s movement, we could have a settlement,” Felicitas said. “If not, we’ll have to sit down again and see what we can come up with.”

Union and district negotiators last week tentatively agreed to a settlement giving teachers an 8% salary increase for 1985-86 and an 8.5% pay raise for 1986-87. The proposed contract also calls for 20% of the district’s 1985-86 lottery revenue to be used to reduce the average number of students in city classrooms during the 1986-87 school year.

The union has given up a demand made by union President Gail Boyle at a teachers’ union rally Feb. 12 that the lottery provision be extended for a second year, Stombs and Felicitas said. They said that ways to spend money from 1986-87 lottery receipts will be discussed next spring, when the two sides begin negotiations on the teachers’ next contract.