INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM ATTENDANCE. The Board will allocate $50,000 annually to recognize superior attendance of the membership. The pool will be split on a pro-rata basis among those teachers, but no teacher may receive more than $500. This payment shall be a one-time, lump-sum payment and shall not attach to the teacher’s base salary. To be eligible for this attendance payment, a teacher must be absent five (5) days or fewer for the contract year. All absences count against a teacher except leaves that have been approved by the District as FMLA-qualifying, religious-need leaves, and any leaves approved by the District as ADA accommodations. Donations made by teachers to the sick leave bank do not count as use of sick leave by the teachers donating the days. The Board will in accordance with STRS and IRS guidelines pay the employee's contribution to STRS by effecting a uniform salary reduction. In order, however, that published salary schedules accurately depict the Board's salary obligations pursuant to this Agreement, all schedules shall set forth the salary which would be in effect but for this STRS provision together with a legend setting forth the fact that there has been a uniform reduction in order to achieve this benefit.
