About 200 employees at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority would receive raises under a series of contracts that won unanimous Common Council approval Wednesday.

But the state control board that oversees city finances has the final say, and whether the revised contracts have resolved issues that spurred the panel to reject earlier agreements remains unclear.

Housing Authority officials, meanwhile, and a union president have warned that if the control board delays approving the contracts at next Wednesday’s meeting, the pacts could be derailed.

The agreements include a provision that union employees will withdraw a number of grievances. William C. Travis, president of Local 264, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, cited a “sense of urgency” for approving the contracts next week, because grievance hearings are scheduled later in the month.

Bryce Link, the control board’s principal analyst, said the panel might not consider the contracts until December.

The contracts span a seven-year period, including three years when a wage freeze was in effect. Authority officials said annual salary increases over the seven-year period average 2.69 for blue-collar employees, 2.58 percent for white-collar workers and 3 percent for unionized managers.

By mid-2011, the average salary for blue-collar employees would be $40,344, while the average salary for white-collar workers would be $45,844. Managers would make an average of nearly $62,000, according to authority data.

South Council Member Michael P. Kearns, chairman of the Finance Committee, questioned whether two dozen nonunion authority administrators also might seek pay increases after the contracts are approved.

“Are you giving yourselves a raise? I guess that’s the question I have with this,” Kearns said.

Modesto Candelario, the Housing Authority’s assistant director, acknowledged a “possibility” that non-union administrators will seek raises. But he noted that the Council would have approval power over any increases.

The agreement would increase costs by $3 million through mid-2011 but would be $400,000 cheaper than the contract proposals the control board rejected this spring.

Some concessions in the contracts include tougher qualifications for receiving free postretirement health care.

Currently, any authority employee of retirement age can leave after working only six months and still receive free health care for life. The new agreements would require employees to be on the payroll for 10 years before receiving free health care in retirement.

Workers hired in the future would have to be on the payroll for 15 years to receive the benefits and would have to pay 15 percent of their premiums, Travis said.