NAHANT – Nahant’s School Committee meeting lasted less than 10 minutes this week, according to Superintendent Philip Devaux.”The main purpose of meeting was to go into executive session to discuss collective bargaining,” Devaux said. “We need to have a new union contract in place prior to Town Meeting in April.”Like other town departments, the teachers contract expired on June 30, 2010, but Devaux said there is a formal written agreement in place that extends it through June 30, 2011.Devaux said contract negotiations are expected to get under way in the next couple of months. School Committee members David Wilson and Michael Flynn will be serving on the negotiations committee.Devaux pointed out collective bargaining has been in place for decades and in most cases negotiations consist of tweaking existing contracts.”The majority of issues have been addressed in the last three or four decades of collective bargaining,” he said. “The negotiations should be pretty straightforward.”Calls to Nahant Teachers Association Co-Presidents Margie Peever and Jennifer Durant were not immediately returned on Wednesday.In other business, the School Committee accepted a grant from the Nahant Education Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for Johnson Elementary School. According to its mission statement, NEF’s purpose is to raise funds from private sources to improve and enrich the Nahant School System.NEF Vice President Christine Kendall, who is also a member of the School Committee, explained the NEF awarded five grants totaling $5,358.