Rockies manager Walt Weiss will have a new contract by the end of next week, owner Dick Monfort said Wednesday, and it will extend for more than one season.

Monfort told The Denver Post that recent talks with the front office and Weiss were productive, which should lead to more security and autonomy for the former Rockies shortstop.

“There will be a (deal) shortly. We are going to do better this year,” Monfort said. “We won’t do a one-year, handshake agreement. We will do something that makes you guys a little more assured that he will be here for more than a year.”

The Rockies went 74-88 this season under Weiss, who was working on a one-year deal in his first season as a big-league manager. Monfort explained that the one-year arrangement was not unusual for the Rockies, who have general manager Dan O’Dowd and assistant GM Bill Geivett operating without contracts.

“Other than our players, we have one guy under contract, and that’s Walt,” Monfort said. “The other 210 people that work for the Rockies don’t.”

Monfort said he wants to be fair to Weiss with a contract that reflects the team’s anticipated improvement in the future.

“On some of these road trips we went through, how he was hanging in there, that was a grind,” Monfort said. “The guys just hung in there and battled through it. If I were him, and I had three kids at home and I was missing my kid’s senior year of baseball and stuff, I would have said ‘the (heck) with it.’ But you know what, he is passionate about it, and he gets it. He thinks we have the talent.”

Weiss took over for Jim Tracy, who walked away from the $1.4 million on the final year of his contract because of philosophical differences. Tracy was not comfortable with Geivett having a desk in the Coors Field clubhouse.

Given his lack of experience, Weiss welcomed Geivett’s help. That will continue, though Geivett could have less of a presence next season.

“Walt was young and he’d never managed,” Monfort said. “We probably dictated to Jim, and he didn’t like it. I don’t think ‘Geivo’ will be as close to the situation as he was. Maybe he won’t be down there every day.”