Common use of Sick Leave Bank Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The Board and Association hereby agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank on the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, following basis: 1. The enrollment period shall be established between the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder first work day of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury and September 30 for each member of the bargaining unit memberto voluntarily donate a maximum of (1) day of their accumulated, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences but unused, sick leave days to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavea Sick Leave Bank. The Association Sick Leave Bank shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the have not less than fifty (50) days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed a bargaining unit member must be in units maximum of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days day times the total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days number of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If members of the bargaining unit plus fifty (50) days. All new bargaining unit members shall be eligible for enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank. Members hired within the school year may enroll by donating one (1) sick leave day to the Bank within thirty (30) days after their date of hire. 2. A committee comprised of the Superintendent, the President of the Association, one (1) building principal chosen by the Superintendent, and one (1) Association member has applied for disability retirementchosen by the Association President, then shall administer the member can use Bank and shall approve applications at its discretion by a majority vote. 3. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of their sick leave accumulation, who have developed a serious or catastrophic illness, and who have contributed to the donated Sick Leave Bank may request sick leave days until from the disability retirement takes effectBank or those as specified in Article 9 “Sick Leave.” e. No more days can be given than needed by the 4. Approved bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member members shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days granted up to a maximum of 180 twenty-five (one25) days from the Bank. The Committee may grant up to an additional twenty-hundred eightyfive (25) days. 5. The Committee shall require bargaining unit members who have requested sick leave days from the Bank to provide a statement from their physician describing the nature of the illness and a prognosis relative to the members’ probable period of absence from duty. 6. Members whose request for additional sick days and whose illness or injury is such that their physician cannot give a probable date of return to duty and who qualify, shall be recommended to apply for disability retirement. 7. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation. 8. Days remaining in the sick leave bank at the end of the school year will be rolled over into the next school year subject to the maximum cap appearing in paragraph one (1) above. New employees and those who did not previously contribute may contribute during the enrollment period in September or within thirty (30) days of their hire date if hired during the school year. All others who previously donated will remain covered by the sick leave bank benefit until such time when it is necessary to reopen the enrollment period. 9. Should the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank decrease below fifty (50) days, the enrollment period will be reopened for a period of fourteen (14) calendar days regardless of the time of year and all members who wish to remain a part of the sick leave bank will be required to contribute. 10. Donations to the Sick Leave Bank shall not disqualify a member for Incentive Pay.

Sick Leave Bank. When A bank of sick leave may be established at the discretion of the teachers with separate accounts for each bargaining unit/school in accordance with the terms and conditions set below: 7.3.6-1 The Sick Leave Bank (SLB) shall exist for the purpose of providing paid sick leave for participating teachers who have used all their own accumulated sick leave and are struck by serious illness, disability, or accident that prevents them from working. In extreme cases of hardship as determined by the Superintendent, he may grant SLB withdrawals for use in the judgment case of a family member’s illness. 7.3.6-2 The SLB will be available to all members of the bargaining unit member's physician who contribute to it. 7.3.6-3 A teacher new to his district shall be eligible to contribute two sick days from his accumulation. Any sick days remaining in the bank at the end of the year shall remain in the bank. A teacher, during subsequent year(s), may voluntarily contribute additional days to a maximum of two days per teacher per year. Any teacher who has had the opportunity to contribute to the bank, but has not, or does not, shall be ineligible to receive SLB benefits. If the SLB is depleted during the contract year, teachers may voluntarily contribute days to re-establish the SLB. The Association shall provide the Superintendent with a detailed annual reconciliation of the SLB’s balance as of October 1 each year for the prior twelve months. The reconciliation will indicate the names of all participants, number of days deposited and withdrawn by each participant, and beginning and ending balances. 7.3.6-4 Any eligible teacher who has exhausted his sick leave may make written application for withdrawal from said SLB, which will be administered by the Emergency Leave Committee of the Association. A teacher who is or may be disabled must make a yearly committee made up timely application for coverage under the Long Term Disability (LTD) plan. The Association will send a copy of the teacher’s application for leave, as well as information regarding the number of sick leave bank days awarded to the teacher, to the Superintendent at the time its decision is made. The parties agree that no teacher determined to be eligible for coverage under the LTD Plan may receive more donated days from the sick leave bank than are necessary to meet the 60-day elimination period for eligibility in the LTD plan. The Association and the Superintendent agree to maintain open communications regarding the administration of the sick bank. 7.3.6-5 Under no circumstances may a teacher who is retiring or otherwise leaving employment in a school covered by this Agreement donate his accrued unused sick leave to the SLB. All donations are subject to the conditions described in 7.27-3 above. 7.3.6-6 The local school board shall establish a new sick leave bank for LNSU Special Education teachers with a donation of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member days per employee for each licensed special education employee who has made contributions. Subsequent deposits to chair, the bank shall be by the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement governed by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.provisions of

Sick Leave Bank. When in Members of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician will be allowed to donate and transfer a maximum of three (3) accumulated sick leave days per year to a member or members who have exhausted their sick leave due to a current serious or catastrophic illness. The following guidelines will apply: 1. The enrollment period for each member of the bargaining unit to voluntarily donate unused sick leave days to a Sick Leave Bank is September 1 through October 15 each year. 2. A committee comprised of the Superintendent or his/her designee, the President of the Association, or his/her designee, one (1) Administrator chosen by the Superintendent, and one (1) Association member chosen by the Association President, shall administer the Bank. The Committee shall approve/disapprove applications for requests, as described in Paragraph 3, at its discretion. 3. Eligible and approved bargaining unit members shall be granted up to a maximum of twenty (20) days from the Bank, per request and a yearly committee made up total maximum of two forty (240) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersdays per school year. Days should be requested in increments of five (5) days at a time. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation and/or severance pay. 4. The member who borrows days will pay back each year the days at the rate of 50% of his/her annual accumulated sick leave at the end of the contract year until the total number of days borrowed has been restored to the bank. Any person who leaves district employment while indebted to the bank for sick days shall cause said days to be deducted from the final pay(s) due to the employee. 5. In the case where an employee has applied to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank, two but the employee’s final check and/or summer wages may not be sufficient to cover the cost of the days requested from the Sick Leave Bank, the parties agree that such an employee may apply for the maximum of twenty (220) Board appointed membersdays per request and forty (40) days per school year to be borrowed from the Sick Leave Bank, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairthe Committee may approve the application, provided that the Board may recover the costs of the borrowed sick leave days by deducting days from the Sick Leave Bank total, if the final check or checks of the employee are not sufficient to cover the indebtedness to the Sick Leave Bank. 6. Loans from the sick leave bank will exhaust be limited to those individuals who have contributed to the bank at any time. Initial new hires will be exempted from the October 15 deadline to submit the form. They may choose to donate a day(s) to the Bank during the first year of their limited contract should the need arise. 7. A loan will be considered only after the individual has used all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder days and has used possible advances of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. 8. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice President or his/her designee shall be a responsible for presenting to the Treasurer properly signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate forms transferring donated sick leave days. (See Appendix B). b. Donations from a 9. First year bargaining unit member must be in units of members may transfer one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that day when accumulated to the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving bank without penalty on the donated leave daysPersonal/Sick Leave Bonus. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a 1. A bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust that has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave may apply to the Sick Leave Donation Committee for a donation of sick leave. The application must include a physician’s statement indicating the nature of the illness or injury, diagnosis and prognosis, and the projected date of return to work. Upon receipt of the application, the SLD Committee shall notify all bargaining unit members that there has been a request for sick leave and the name of the individual requesting sick leave. The requesting member may only be granted a total of up to thirty (30) days for the remainder first application. If those days are exhausted, the bargaining unit member may make one additional application for up to another thirty (30) days. Upon receiving notification of the school year due application for a sick leave donation, each bargaining unit member may donate up to catastrophic illness or injury five (5) days of sick leave to a pool that will be credited to the requesting member. A total of thirty (30) days may be donated for each application. If the SLD Committee receives donations of more than thirty (30) days, the SLD Committee shall allocate the donations among each donating bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to e.g., if ten (10) people donate five (5) days each, each member will only be charged with a donation of three (3) days. Upon finalization of the motheridentity of the donors, and additional the number of days are still neededeach donor is donating, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall SLD Committee will notify the treasurer of the BoardTreasurer, in writing, of the name of each donor, how many days they are donating, and the name of the person to whom the days should be credited. Upon receipt of this information, the Treasurer shall verify that each donor has the requisite number of days to be deducted, from whomtheir credit, and if so, deduct those days from the person receiving donor, and credit thirty days to the transferred days. Included in account of the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected requesting member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member making the donation has applied for disability retirementaccumulated the maximum number of sick days, then i.e., 240 days, at the time the donation is made, the donated days shall be deducted from that maximum, and shall not be deducted from the 15 days the member can use is entitled to accumulate during that school year, per Article XV. However, any days accrued after the donated leave days until donation will be credited toward the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by maximum number allowing the bargaining unit member to serve out reach the regular school yearmaximum anew, and only that school yeartime permitting. f. 2. The requesting member may make one additional application to the SLD Committee for a sick leave donation upon the exhaustion of the days donated from the initial application. Under no circumstance will a bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave firstbe entitled to more than sixty (60) days in any school year. If the additional application is made, the procedure set forth in paragraph A shall apply. g. The 3. Application for a sick leave donation may only be made for catastrophic illness or injury. Catastrophic illness or injury is defined as an illness or injury that is “unusual, extraordinary, sudden, an unexpected manifestation of the forces of nature which cannot be prevented by human care, skill or foresight”. 4. If a bargaining unit member who applies for, and is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's granted a donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member days, the days shall be paid at a per diem rate based on Step 0 of the Bachelors Column on the salary schedule in effect at the time of the donation. 5. The SLD Committee shall be made up of three Association members, appointed by the Association President. The SLD Committee shall be administered and operated by the Association. 6. This provision shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating be subject to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysgrievance procedure. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A sick leave bank shall be established for the purpose of making additional sick leave days available to employees who have completed one (1) year of continuous employment by the Committee, who have exhausted their entire sick leave accumulation, and who have a serious illness or injury. A serious illness or injury for the purpose of this Article shall be one which requires the employee's absence from work for more than ten (10) consecutive work days. Participation in the judgment sick leave bank by employees shall be voluntary. 2. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee comprised of a bargaining unit member's physician three (3) persons. One of such persons shall be the Superintendent and a yearly committee made up of the other two (2) ▇▇▇▇ persons shall be appointed members, by the Association from its membership. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the Grievance Procedure. The Sick Bank Committee members consist of: Superintendent of Schools and two members of the Association. 3. The sick leave bank will be initially funded by deducting one (21) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, sick leave day from the employee will exhaust all of his/her accrued or accumulated sick leave for days of each employee, who has agreed to participate in the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberbank, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences and contributing such days to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavebank. The Association Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish determine the eligibility of an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify employee for sick leave days from the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of bank and the number of sick leave days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred daysgranted in each case. Included The balance of sick leave days in the notice bank shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer carried forward from year to transfer the daysyear. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement One (1) sick day will be discussed with added to the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysbank each year by employees who wish to participate. b. Donations from 4. Sick leave days will be made available only to an employee who has been employed for a bargaining unit member must be in units continuous period of one (1) dayyear and is participating in the bank, but no more than five who has exhausted all of their personal sick leave days, and who has been absent from work for a period of ten (510) consecutive work days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days because of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic a serious illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated . The sick leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed granted by the bargaining unit member bank will be retroactive to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. first day of the employee's illness or injury. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated initial grant of sick leave will days from the bank shall not earn exceed twenty (20), after which the employee may apply for additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of 5. Requests for sick leave days from the bank shall be submitted in writing to another bargaining unit member the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall not count as use include a written statement from the employee's physician indicating the nature and extent of sick leave for the purposes of calculating illness or injury and the non-use incentive paymentestimated time that the employee will be absent from work. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee6. In extenuating circumstancesadministering the Bank, determining eligibility, and the amount of leave, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.following general criteria shall be applied by the Bank Committee:

Sick Leave Bank. When in Subd. 1. Teachers who have a catastrophic illness or a spouse/child/step-children with a catastrophic illness shall be allowed to utilize days from the judgment annual sick leave bank. A catastrophic illness is defined as but not limited to: an illness or injury that required the employee to be absent from work for 30 or more calendar days from the date of the first absence. Subd. 2. Membership will be open to all teachers. The request for participation will be made by the Executive Board of the Exclusive Representative to the membership. Eligible teachers must declare their intent to participate: (a) On or before September 30 of any year, or (b) Within 30 days of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up position hired during the school year. (c) By volunteering their individual accumulative sick days above the maximum of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, 100 from the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated preceding year placed into the sick leave for bank at the remainder end of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury start of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences following year. (d) By declaring to designate one (1) sick leave day to the mother, and additional bank at the start of each year. Subd. 3. Teachers who do not belong to the Sick Leave Teacher Protection Bank will not be able to draw days from it. Subd. 4. Teachers applying for days from the Sick Leave Teacher Protection Bank are still needed, then herequired to use his/she may request through her individual accumulated sick days prior to requesting days from the Superintendent that additional days bank. Subd. 5. The Sick Leave Teacher Protection Bank shall not be transferred used when a teacher qualifies for long-term disability income insurance. Subd. 6. All teachers who choose to participate in the "Bank" will be assessed from other bargaining unit members' their accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of All assessed days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations accumulated from year to year in a "Bank" where they will apply be available to this paragraph: a. No teacher teachers who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as have used all of July 1 can donate their designated sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units . When all of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days in the "Bank" have been reduced to the minimum number of 150 days, teachers who are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can participating will be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn assessed an additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation day of their sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment"Bank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating " Teachers may volunteer to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysdonate more than one day. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The intent of the judgment sick leave bank is to provide extended sick leave benefits to those persons who incur a period of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersextended illness, two (2) Board appointed membersinjury, and a mutually and/or hospitalization. The following guiding principles will be used to facilitate the sick leave bank. 1. An agreed upon fifth member committee representing both unions will monitor and facilitate the use of the sick leave bank. This committee in addition to chairthe district superintendent will have complete control of the sick leave bank and their decisions will be final. In the event the committee cannot agree upon any situation before them, the district superintendent will be notified and he/she will make the final decision. 2. The following criteria must be used by and applies to employees needing assistance from the sick bank:  An employee will exhaust needing to use the sick bank must have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave for days, personal days and vacation. Then must apply a one week waiting period before days can be accessed. The one week waiting period is not covered by the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences sick bank.  The employee will send a request to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through appropriate Union President explaining the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the anticipated number of days to be deducted, from whom, required and the person receiving the transferred daysreason for such a request. Included in the notice shall This request must be accompanied by a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations note from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that medical doctor verifying the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave need for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. medical absence.  A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) 50 sick days in any given school year can be received by any single employee. 3. The following rules will guide the effective operation of the sick leave bank:  A notice will be sent to all employees identifying the individual requesting days including the reason for the request and the anticipated number of days needed.  Each employee then chooses whether or not to donate a sick day to the individual making the request. Employees may donate more than once per year at their own discretion. No employee can be required to donate sick days and no means of coercion will be tolerated.  In extenuating circumstancesorder to donate a sick day, fill out the official form identifying yourself as the donor and the person to receive the sick day(s) and send it to the Union President responsible for distributing the request.  The sick bank committee will then: o Collect all donation forms and determine a meeting time. o Turn the donation forms upside down and randomly number them o Keep track of the total days used and which employee donated each day. o Notify the unit office at the end of each month the following with the names of the employees receiving each donated day and the employees donating each day. Note: The sick bank is very flexible and allows a great deal of control of the days donated by the employees donating the days. If an employee does not wish to answer an appeal for sick days, the committee employee certainly has that right. Likewise, employees may approve additional choose to give sick days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysemployees in either union group. With leadership from both unions handling the paperwork, only days that are actually needed will be used with the remainder being returned to the membership employee who donated.

Sick Leave Bank. When in If a staff member’s accumulative sick leave has been used, the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) individual staff member may borrow from the Sick Leave Bank as explained below. The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ appointed School District shall have a sick leave bank that has 40 days banked each school year. An individual may access not more than 20 days in any one school year. If more than 40 days are requested by a combined number of staff members, two (2) Board appointed members, the 40 total days will be divided among them and a mutually agreed upon fifth the resulting number granted to each request. No bank leave will be granted to any staff member to chair, who does not return for employment the employee will exhaust all of year following his/her accumulated withdrawal. The sick leave for bank days will not be paid until the remainder end of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury and the receipt of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, a signed contract. 1. Staff who uses their ten days’ sick leave and their accumulative sick leave may then borrow additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through from the Superintendent that additional days bank. 2. All sick leave benefits must be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated expended prior to using sick leaveleave bank days. 3. Sick leave bank Form A (page 6) must be filled out by applicant. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days requested shall be granted upon the employee’s return to work or at such a time as unpaid leave is granted. 4. Repayment to the bank shall be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included handled in the notice following manner: The person who used days from the Sick Leave Bank and or an HEA Representative shall be a signed statement responsible for collecting those days on Form B (page 7) and submitting them to the business manager by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the daysJune 10 (10-month contract) or August 1 (12-month contract). The appropriateness of an application days given from staff shall reimburse the bank to repay days borrowed during the school year. If not enough days are collected for disability retirement borrowed sick bank days, the days contributed will be discussed with divided evenly among those owing the affected memberbank. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) The remainder of their days as of July 1 can donate borrowed shall be deducted from future sick leave daysbenefits. Staff members leaving the system shall not be allowed to donate days or to use donated days to pay back any borrowed days from the bank. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that . If an employee leaves the donor not go below forty-five (45) District before making up used days of accumulated borrowed sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum District shall then subtract 1/180 of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.the employee’s base salary times

Sick Leave Bank. When in 1. The purpose of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member sick leave bank is to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated provide sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to those participating supervisors who have a prolonged, catastrophic or long term illness or and/or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated who have exhausted all their available personal sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such This benefit would not be available in a transferworkers compensation injury matter. The Association Business Administrator and Construction Manager may also participate in this sick leave bank program. 2. Each supervisor covered by this agreement who chooses to participate in the sick leave bank shall notify contribute five (5) sick leave days to the treasurer bank within the first fifteen (15) days of the Board, in writing, effective date of the number supervisor's appointment. Such days become permanently part of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysbank and cannot be withdrawn. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than 3. New supervisory employees choosing to participate shall contribute five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five within fifteen (4515) days of accumulated the effective date of employment. 4. Supervisors who have not participated in the sick leaveleave bank, and who subsequently choose to participate, may join within the first fifteen (15) school days of July of any school year. However, such supervisors must match the number of days they would have already contributed to the sick leave bank during the time of their employment in the district since the establishment of the sick bank. 5. A Sick Leave Bank Committee, composed of the President of the Operations Management Organization, or his/her designee, and the Superintendent of Schools, or his/her designee, shall administer the sick leave bank program. The committee may grant up to thirty (30) sick leave days per application. All decisions to accept or reject an application shall be non-grievable. 6. Future contributions will be required when the number of days in the bank is diminished to a number that equals three (3) times the number of administrators included in the sick bank. At that time, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the rate of additional contributions, not to exceed five (5) days per participant per year. 7. Eligibility to draw from the sick leave bank shall be limited to those participants who: a. Have exhausted all other paid leave entitlement. b. Provide medical evidence of prolonged, catastrophic, or long term illness or injury acceptable to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. c. The bargaining unit member Make application to whom the days are given must personally have Sick Leave Bank Committee on the catastrophic illness or injuryappropriate form. d. 8. If agreement on a grant is not achieved by the bargaining unit committee of two, or an applicant is dissatisfied with the decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, an appeal can be made by the applicant to a review board composed of two members appointed by the Superintendent of Schools, two members appointed by the Operations Management Organization President, and one additional member has applied for disability retirementacceptable to both the Superintendent and the Operations Management Organization President. The decision of the review board shall be final, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effectbinding, and non-grievable. e. No more 9. The maximum number of days can be given than needed by available to each participant who meets the bargaining unit member criteria in Section 7 is limited to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave 225 days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of 10. The district will contribute five (5) sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of days for each supervisor who joins the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. bank. The Association five (5) days will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating be added to the Associationbank at the time of the supervisor's administration of sick leave transfer daysinitial contribution. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in In the judgment event an employee has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave and, upon notification by the Office of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up the Treasurer of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersthe advance of five days from the District, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairas per Ohio Revised Code, the employee will, prior to actual use, contact BSEA for approval of borrowing days from the Sick Leave Bank. Upon written approval from the BSEA Executive Committee, the District shall advance days from the Sick Leave Bank. The individual can request annually up to twenty (20) days of additional sick leave from the days/hours of sick leave that have been deposited in the BSEA Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank may accumulate donated days to a maximum of one hundred ten (110) days/eight hundred eighty (880) hours. No individual shall be permitted to accrue more than sixty (60) days of advanced sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank during their career with the District. These days will exhaust be paid back after all days have been paid to the District. In the event that an individual leaves the District with a negative balance of sick days, the employee shall be financially responsible to the District for the cost of those days. Loans from the Sick Leave Bank will be limited to those individuals who have contributed days/hours to the bank. Each bargaining unit member may contribute one (1) day/eight (8) hours of his/her accumulated sick leave for to the remainder Sick Leave Bank during the enrollment period. The enrollment period will be from the first workday of the year through September 15 of each year. New employees hired after the school year due has commenced shall have thirty (30) days to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveenroll. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transferdonated day/hours are not returnable. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from A donated day guarantees a bargaining unit member must Sick Leave Bank membership for the length of employment. Should the number of donated days/hours in the Sick Leave Bank drop below ten (10) days/eighty (80) hours, the Sick Leave Bank members will be in units required to donate an additional day/hours. A written application is required for approval of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days. A doctor's excuse may be requested. The member who borrows days total per recipient, provided that will pay back the donor not go below forty-five (45) days days/hours at the rate of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust 50% of his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated annual accumulated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving at the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation end of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use the salary contract year, each year until the total number of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating days borrowed has been restored to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysbank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher may participate by contributing one (1) sick leave day under the following conditions: a. The number of accumulated days in the judgment bank shall be adjusted on an annual basis to accommodate new teachers into the bank but shall not exceed 200 days. If the days in the bank fall below 50, members shall contribute an additional day. b. The teacher may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions: (1) He must have chosen to participate by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank on or before September 15th of the present year, and such day(s) contributed shall be non-returnable to the teacher. (2) He must have exhausted all of his own personal sick leave. (3) Upon request of the Committee, he must provide certification from his physician substantiating his illness. (4) He must apply, in writing, no later than ten (10) days after exhaustion of his accumulated sick leave. If he is too ill to request days, a designee may request days. (5) Upon resumption of employment after using days from the bank, he shall repay the number of days owed to the bank at the rate of three (3) or more sick leave days per year. (6) Teachers owing days to the sick leave bank who leave employment with the school corporation prior to repayment of the days shall reimburse the school corporation at the teacher’s daily rate at the time the days were borrowed (7) In the case of a bargaining unit member's physician death of a teacher owing days to the sick leave bank, owed days are waived. (8) All new employees may contribute one sick leave day to become a member of the sick leave bank. (9) Days will be granted for maternity leaves only for the period of time during which the teacher is certified as disabled. (10) The Federation will receive a count of days and a yearly members in the sick leave bank by October 15 of each year. c. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee made up shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to guidelines established by the Committee. The Committee shall be composed of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ teachers appointed membersby the Federation plus the Superintendent. Days allotted by the Committee to an individual teacher shall be available for use after exhaustion of the teacher’s accumulated sick leave, two and such allotment by the Committee shall not exceed a maximum of twenty (20) days. d. Any days granted by the Committee shall terminate effective the earliest date as hereinafter provided: (1) The day after the last day of the term of employment for the school year, or (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, The day after the employee will exhaust all last day of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the allotted number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement granted by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysCommittee. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Frankfort-Elberta Area Support Staff who wish to initially join a sick leave bank may do so only before the last Friday of September of that year by authorizing in writing that one (1) day be taken from their sick leave for the judgment year and credited to the bank. Membership will be continuing as long as the Employee remains employed with the school district. The Board of Education will match up to one half (1/2) the total sick bank membership each year. (Example: If 22 sick bank members, 11 days). Each member will authorize one (1) day each year until a bargaining unit maximum shall be attained. One (1) credited sick leave day each year will be deducted from each member of the sick leave bank until such time as member days and matching Board-contributed days reach the one hundred twenty (120) day maximum. Such deduction shall not require an individual bank member's physician and a yearly committee authorization. It is understood by the parties that it may take several years for the sick bank total to reach the maximum. The maximum shall be one hundred twenty (120) days plus the membership minus one. If during any school year the number of accumulated banked sick leave days drops below twice the number of sick bank member participants, the Board shall deduct one (1) accumulated sick leave day from each member of the sick leave bank. This deduction may be made up without individual sick leave bank member authorization, but the individual sick leave bank members shall be notified that the deduction was made. The maximum number of days that any member shall be required to give in any one (1) year shall be two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members); however, two (2) Board appointed members, and individual members may elect to donate more. Any Employee who is a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, can draw on the employee will exhaust all of Bank only after his/her accumulated sick leave for leave, emergency and personal business days have been depleted. Employees who have at least two (2) years of experience with the remainder district may automatically draw up to ten (10) days over the life of their employment with the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences Frankfort-Elberta Area Schools provided written application is made to the motherSuperintendent of Schools. Upon application, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to thirty (30) may be awarded by the Sick Bank Board. Employees may join the sick leave bank after two (2) years in the district. Any member who withdraws from participation in the sick leave bank may not rejoin the sick leave bank. Any sick days that have been properly deducted from a maximum sick bank member's accumulated sick leave total will stay in the bank and not be re-credited to the member's accumulated total should he/she decide to end his/her participation in the sick bank. Up to ten (10) days may be awarded by the Sick Leave Bank Board upon application. A Board shall be selected to administer the Sick Leave Bank. Two members shall be selected by the Board of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysEducation and two by the participating members. This Board shall have the authority as specified under 21.02d to grant additional sick leave days from the sick leave bank under extenuating circumstances.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teacher sick leave days administered by the district which may be used after serious illness only by participating teachers. The definition of teacher in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder bank includes any member of the school year due association who has signed up to catastrophic illness or injury donate sick days to the sick bank. . 2. To become a member of the bargaining unit memberbank, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No any teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can must donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total day per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 3 days donated in total. 3. Upon request by the Association to the Superintendent, the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be reported to the Association. 4. The maximum number of days that can be used by a sick-leave bank member from the Bank in one fiscal year's period of time may not exceed 75% of the days available in the bank at that time (one-to the nearest whole day.) 5. Days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be for serious illness on the part of the teacher, spouse or dependent children through age 23. It does not cover elective surgery. Teachers who draw benefits under the Teacher Retirement System or under Workmen's Compensation shall cease to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. 6. Days will continue to accumulate in the Bank up to one hundred eighty(100) days. Should the number of days exceed one hundred (100) during the first thirty days of the new school year, the additional days added for that year will be held in a reserve. At such time that one hundred (100) days are accumulated, any additional days will go into the reserve. Whenever the Sick Leave Bank drops below one hundred (100) days, the reserve shall be used to bring the Bank up to one hundred (100) days. No new days will be added by continuing members as long as the Sick Leave Bank remains at or above one hundred (100) days. New staff members will contribute when hired if they desire to participate in the Bank, with their sick day contribution going to the reserve should the Sick Leave Bank be at or above one hundred (100) days. The reserve days may not be considered as part of the maximum 75% of the days accessible for use. 7. No sick leave bank member can request to use the Bank unless all his/her sick days and personal leave days are exhausted. The member shall provide a written request to use the bank to the RBEA President and the Superintendent. A doctors note or similar written verification shall be provided to the RBEA President. A committee of administrators,the RBEA President, and the RBEA building representatives will review each request and make a recommendation to the Superintendent. In the case of an emergency when time does not permit this to be done ahead of time, the committee may act retroactively. 8. Sick Leave Bank days will only be added during the first thirty (30) days of each school year. Any unused days carry over for use the next year. 9. If the number of days drops below the fully funded status (100 days), any active member who has not contributed the maximum of three days will be required to contribute a day per year until the 3-day maximum is attained.

Sick Leave Bank. When in (SLB). A sick leave bank (SLB) shall be provided for employees. The purpose of the judgment SLB is to provide additional sick leave to members of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her SLB who have exhausted accumulated sick leave and otherwise qualify for it. The Department of Human Resources shall maintain procedures and be responsible for the remainder administration of the school year due SLB. A. A full-time employee who elects to catastrophic illness or injury join the SLB must have accumulated at least eighty (80.0) hours of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish A part-time employee must have accumulated an internal policy amount proportionate to administer such the percent of time or hours worked in a transfertwo-week period as compared to a full- time employee. The Association shall notify A full- time employee joins the treasurer of the BoardSLB by directing, in writing, the contribution of ten (10.0) hours of the number member's accumulated sick leave into the SLB. A part-time employee joins the SLB by directing, in writing, the contribution of days an amount proportionate to be deducted, from whom, the percent of time or hours worked as compared to a full-time employee. Membership in the SLB continues until the employee leaves the university or until there is a call for SLB donations and the person receiving employee does not properly respond to the transferred dayscall. Included Sick leave time donated to the SLB is not refundable. An employee who enrolls in the notice SLB while on an approved sick leave may not request the SLB benefit for that approved sick leave. B. All employees shall be a signed statement notified by Human Resources at the bargaining unit member involved authorizing annual enrollment period each September (subject to change) of the Board treasurer existence of the SLB and shall be provided the opportunity to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application become members after becoming qualified for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days membership, as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysdescribed in Section 2.A, above. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be C. When the time available in units of one (1) day, but no more the SLB becomes less than five (5) days total per recipienthours times the number of SLB members, provided that the donor not go below forty-a donation of an additional five (455.0) days hours of sick leave shall be called for from all SLB members who have at least eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leaveleave (prorated for part- time employees). SLB members who have fewer than eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leave (prorated for part-time employees) shall be exempt from this call for donations. A member who has at least eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leave (prorated for part-time employees) and who does not make a called-for donation shall cease membership in the SLB. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit D. Any member who is using donated has fewer than eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leave will not earn additional (prorated for part-time employees) and who anticipates the need for more sick leave while receiving than he/she has available may submit a request to the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation SLB committee for the transfer of sick leave time from the SLB to another bargaining unit the member. The request shall be reviewed by the SLB committee and the committee's decision, by majority vote, shall be binding. Decisions by the SLB committee may not be grieved. E. The SLB committee shall consist of three (3) representatives appointed by the Union and three (3) representatives appointed by the University. F. The maximum length of time available to any member shall not count as use of from the SLB in response to an application is one hundred and sixty (160) hours (prorated for part-time employees). Additional extensions may be made if the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating time transferred in response to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can an application proves to be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days insufficient up to a maximum total of 180 three hundred and twenty (one320) hours (prorated for part-hundred eightytime employees) daysin a twelve (12) month period. At no time may the SLB committee transfer more sick leave time from the SLB than is available in the bank. G. Time from the SLB may be granted because of continuous absence or intermittent absence as administered under the University’s Family and Medical Leave Act Policy, due to non-work- related and non-chronic condition resulting from a catastrophic accident, injury or illness of the qualified employee or member of the qualified employee’s immediate family for whom the qualified employee is the primary caretaker. Conditions caused by incidents covered by workers' compensation are not eligible for SLB time.

Sick Leave Bank. When in A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the judgment purposes of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) aiding the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her School District #7-1 Employee who has exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to prolonged illness or a catastrophic accident. The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. A person will not be able to withdraw days from the bank until their own sick leave is depleted. To enroll in the program each ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ School District #7-1 employee may contribute one (1) day per year to the program to become eligible. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. The contribution form must be completed each year, including zero (0) if so intended, and returned to the remainder Business Office. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a total of two hundred fifty (250) or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day each year. A person withdrawing from membership in the bank will not be able to withdraw contributed days. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Record keeping will be undertaken by the Business Office and the employee groups shall have the right to periodically examine the records during normal business hours. In the event of prolonged illness, a participating member who has exhausted his or her sick leave may request days from the bank. A maximum of sixty (60) days can be drawn from the bank for life threatening illness of the school year due to individual employee. A maximum of thirty (30) days can be withdrawn from the bank for a catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberindividual employee. In the first semester of employment, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences a staff member may withdraw a maximum of 10 days from the sick leave bank. Pregnancies will only apply to the mothertime the mother is physically disabled and unable to work. Requests will be served on a firstcome, first served basis. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to the Business Office and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through must be supported by a written statement from the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveparticipant’s personal physician. The Association shall establish an internal policy Business Office will forward the request to administer such the committee for a transferdecision. The Association shall notify the treasurer Committee will be composed of the Boardtwo (2) Staff Members (Selected by CEA), in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whoma Board Member, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the daysSuperintendent of Schools or his designee. The appropriateness of an application Committee will review applications for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from request and with a bargaining unit member must be majority of that Committee either granting or rejecting each request. The Committee shall meet to consider the request and inform all appropriate parties of its decision in units of one writing (0ne (1) daycopy to the applicant, but no more than superintendent, CEA, and the Business Office) within five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Board and the Association hereby agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank on the following basis: A. An enrollment period shall be established between September 1 and October 1 for each member of the bargaining unit to voluntarily donate sick leave days to a Sick Leave Bank. In order to be established, the Sick Leave Bank shall have not less than twenty-five (25) days as certified by the Association. The Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed a maximum of one hundred and fifty (150) days in any school year. The one hundred fifty (150) day maximum shall be exceeded to allow new enrollees to participate in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician Sick Leave Bank. Sick leave days donated and a yearly not used in the prior school year will be carried over. Only full sick leave days shall be donated (increments are not allowed). B. A committee made up comprised of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ administrators appointed members, by the Superintendent and two (2) Board Association members appointed members, by the Association President shall administer the Bank. The Committee shall develop the approved form and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairshall approve applications at its discretion. The Superintendent’s designee shall serve as chairperson. If the Committee denies the application, the employee will exhaust decision may be appealed to the Superintendent. The Superintendent may require a second medical opinion at the Board’s expense. C. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of his/her accumulated their sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to accumulation, who have developed a serious or catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberinjury, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences and who have contributed to the motherSick Leave Bank, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through sick leave days from the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveBank. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer A maximum of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortytwenty-five (4525) days may be requested for a serious or catastrophic illness in the member's immediate family as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysdefined in Article 18. Days may not be requested for elective procedures. b. Donations from D. After three (3) years of employment with C-TEC, a bargaining unit member must be in units have had an average sick leave balance of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that for each year of employment with C-TEC to be eligible to be awarded days from the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveSick Leave Bank. c. The E. Approved bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can members shall be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days granted up to a maximum of 180 twenty (20) days from the Bank, per request up to a total of forty (40) days in any school year. Days borrowed must be paid back to the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of one-hundred eightyhalf (1/2) daysday per month. F. In order to be considered for participation in the Sick Leave Bank, bargaining unit members shall provide documentation required by the Committee. G. In no case shall the Sick Leave Bank prevent or prolong a bargaining unit member from applying for and going on disability retirement. H. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation and/or severance pay.

Sick Leave Bank. When in At the judgment beginning of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of each school term, all new teachers shall contribute two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersdays of the foregoing sick leave to a common bank. Request for use of bank days shall be made in writing to the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources. Teachers who have exhausted their accumulated personal sick leave allowance may make withdrawals from the common bank in accordance with the schedule below. The following provisions shall control the operation of the sick leave bank: 1. The teacher shall not have to pay back in any manner the number of sick days borrowed from the bank. 2. No teacher shall draw upon the sick leave bank in excess of fifty (50) days. Upon return from a personal illness or injury, any member who has exhausted all available sick and personal days, and has already drawn fifty (50) days from the sick bank, and needing no less than ten (10) days to avoid unpaid leave due to such illness or injury, may request members to voluntarily contribute no more than two (2) Board appointed memberspersonal or sick toward unpaid leave. Any such donated days shall be certified by WEA to the District, which amounts shall be deducted from the donors' accumulated personal or sick leave as directed by WEA. The District and a mutually agreed upon fifth member WEA shall be held harmless to chair, the any employee will exhaust all of for implementing this provision. 3. A teacher must have exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of individual accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom 4. A teacher can draw from the bank after three school days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injurywithout pay. d. If 5. The teacher can draw from the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving bank the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation number of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating days equal to the Association's administration remaining number of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) teacher work days remaining in the school year but shall be limited to the following provisions: 1st year teacher can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to draw a maximum of 180 (one5 days 2nd year teacher can draw a maximum of 5 days 3rd year teacher can draw a maximum of 20 days 4th year teacher can draw a maximum of 30 days 5th year teacher can draw a maximum of 40 days 6th year teacher can draw a maximum of 50 days Maximum of 50 days 6. Part-hundred eighty) daystime teachers shall be entitled to use the sick bank days in the same fractional proportion as their assignment bears to a full time assignment. 7. The bank shall not be applicable to any person other than the teacher, and may only be used for the teacher’s personal illness. 8. Teachers who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave allowance may, in the case of serious extended illness of an immediate family member, apply for a leave of absence without pay or occasional days without pay. “Immediate family” shall be defined as parents, husband, wife and children.

Sick Leave Bank. When a. The purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to extend to those teachers who choose to participate additional sick leave days should an illness or injury exhaust their accumulated sick leave days during a school year. b. Within 60 days following the ratification of this Agreement, each teacher, regardless of FTE and who is not a current participant in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of sick leave bank, may join the bank by contributing two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all days of his/her accumulated sick leave for allowance to the remainder bank. The sick leave bank committee may also establish one additional open enrollment period during this Agreement. A new teacher shall be allowed to join the bank by contributing two days of his or her sick leave allowance, provided he or she elects to do so within 60 days of the school year due date of employment. Whenever the total number of sick leave days in the bank drops below one day per member of the bank, the sick leave bank shall be replenished by assessing each member one sick leave day. All sick leave contributions and assessments to catastrophic the sick leave bank are irrevocable. Only teachers who are current members of the bank may apply for days from the bank. c. Upon depleting personal sick leave and personal/emergency leave, and after obtaining a doctor's statement certifying a physical illness or injury rendering a member unable to perform duties listed on a member's job description for a period of more than five work days, a member may request days from the bank. A committee composed of one representative of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to administration and three representatives of the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through Association will act immediately on the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverequest. The Association committee shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify grant the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraphrequest if: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no District records show that the member has exhausted his/her sick leave; (2) The member is a contributing member to the sick leave bank according to 3.b above; and (3) The member has experienced an illness or disability that has prevented him/her from performing his/her job requirements for more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveand a doctor has certified in writing this illness or disability. c. The bargaining unit (4) When a member has accessed the sick leave bank then has a prolonged absence for the same or other qualifying medical condition within the same school year, (s)he should be allowed more access to whom the days are given must personally have bank, up to the catastrophic illness or injurytotal of 65 days. If the request is for a new qualifying medical condition, section 3 above needs to be met before the member can access the sick leave bank. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied request is approved, the committee shall notify the District Office and resulting days, including the first five days of the illness or injury, if personal sick leave was not available for disability retirementthose days, then will be charged to the bank until the member can use returns to work or has used 65 days from the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effectbank. e. No more days can be given than needed The District shall keep accurate records of leave accumulated by the bargaining unit member bank and of sick leave used by the bank. Annually, the District shall notify the Association in writing of accumulated days and days charged to serve out the regular school year, and only bank that school year. f. The bargaining unit Membership shall be terminated by written request of the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave firstor by the end of employment. Previously donated days shall remain in the bank. Temporary teachers hired back by the first day of the following work year shall retain membership in the Sick Leave Bank. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated The sick leave bank is only available for the remainder personal illness of the employee. The sick leave bank will be maintained by deducting two days per employee and adding it to the existing bank beginning on the first school day of each school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of until the number of days exceeds a number equivalent to be deducted, from whom, and six times the person receiving the transferred days. Included number of personnel in the notice Bargaining Unit. Days already in the Sick Bank as of June 30, 2016 shall carry over into this Agreement. The HFT shall receive an accounting of this amount on or before August 15th of each year. If at any time the number of days falls below twice the number of employees in the unit, one day per employee will be deducted from each employee and added to the bank on the first day of the following school year and each succeeding school year until the number of days exceeds a number equivalent to six times the number of personnel in the Bargaining Unit. There shall be established a signed statement Sick Bank Review Committee which shall be comprised of two members appointed by the bargaining unit HFT and one member involved authorizing appointed by the Board treasurer to transfer the daysBoard. The appropriateness Committee shall have responsibility for approval of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate all sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must bank applications. The Committee’s decisions shall not be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that subject to the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied grievance process. Any potential applicant may apply for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust this bank when his/her own current and accumulated sick and personal leave firsthas been exhausted. In order to qualify for the sick leave bank, an applicant must provide the following information to the Superintendent of Schools which shall promptly be forwarded to the Sick Bank Review Committee. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated 1. A statement requesting authorization to draw from the sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving bank including the donated leave daysdate that this action would commence. h. A bargaining unit member's donation 2. The employee’s disability must be certified in writing by the employee’s physician, indicating the nature of the illness, first day of sick leave leave, and, to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use the extent possible, the probable days of sick leave for termination of the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentillness. i. The Association 3. A doctor's statement indicating the current status of the illness must be provided at each 60-day interval. When qualified, such applicant will defend and hold be compensated at the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating regular rate of pay, not to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysexceed 190 days per applicant per illness. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in (SLB). A sick leave bank (SLB) shall be provided for employees. The purpose of the judgment SLB is to provide additional sick leave to members of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her SLB who have exhausted accumulated sick leave and otherwise qualify for it. The Department of Human Resources shall maintain procedures and be responsible for the remainder administration of the school year due SLB. A. A full-time employee who elects to catastrophic illness or injury join the SLB must have accumulated at least eighty (80.0) hours of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish A part-time employee must have accumulated an internal policy amount proportionate to administer such the percent of time or hours worked in a transfertwo-week period as compared to a full- time employee. The Association shall notify A full-time employee joins the treasurer of the BoardSLB by directing, in writing, the contribution of ten (10.0) hours of the number member's accumulated sick leave into the SLB. A part-time employee joins the SLB by directing, in writing, the contribution of days an amount proportionate to be deducted, from whom, the percent of time or hours worked as compared to a full-time employee. Membership in the SLB continues until the employee leaves the university or until there is a call for SLB donations and the person receiving employee does not properly respond to the transferred dayscall. Included Sick leave time donated to the SLB is not refundable. An employee who enrolls in the notice SLB while on an approved sick leave may not request the SLB benefit for that approved sick leave. B. All employees shall be a signed statement notified by Human Resources at the bargaining unit member involved authorizing annual enrollment period each September (subject to change) of the Board treasurer existence of the SLB and shall be provided the opportunity to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application become members after becoming qualified for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days membership, as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysdescribed in Section 2.A, above. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be C. When the time available in units of one (1) day, but no more the SLB becomes less than five (5) days total per recipienthours times the number of SLB members, provided that the donor not go below forty-a donation of an additional five (455.0) days hours of sick leave shall be called for from all SLB members who have at least eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leaveleave (prorated for part-time employees). SLB members who have fewer than eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leave (prorated for part-time employees) shall be exempt from this call for donations. A member who has at least eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leave (prorated for part-time employees) and who does not make a called-for donation shall cease membership in the SLB. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit D. Any member who is using donated has fewer than eighty (80.0) hours of accumulated sick leave will not earn additional (prorated for part-time employees) or who anticipates within 30 days the need for more sick leave while receiving than he/she has available may submit a request to the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation SLB committee for the transfer of sick leave time from the SLB to another bargaining unit the member. The request shall be reviewed by the SLB committee and the committee's decision, by majority vote, shall be binding. Decisions by the SLB committee may not be grieved. E. The SLB committee shall consist of three (3) representatives appointed by the Union and three (3) representatives appointed by the University. F. The maximum length of time available to any member shall not count as use of from the SLB in response to an application is one hundred and sixty (160) hours (prorated for part-time employees). Additional extensions may be made if the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating time transferred in response to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can an application proves to be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days insufficient up to a maximum total of 180 three hundred and twenty (one320) hours (prorated for part-hundred eightytime employees) daysin a twelve (12) month period. At no time may the SLB committee transfer more sick leave time from the SLB than is available in the bank. G. Time from the SLB may be granted because of continuous absence or intermittent absence as administered under the University’s Family and Medical Leave Act Policy, due to non- work-related and non-chronic condition resulting from a catastrophic accident, injury or illness of the qualified employee or member of the qualified employee’s immediate family for whom the qualified employee is the primary caretaker. Conditions caused by incidents covered by workers' compensation are not eligible for SLB time.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teachers’ sick leave days administered by the district, which may be used for serious illness only by participating teachers. The information will be shared between parties and the official copy will be housed in the judgment district office. 4.3.1 Each newly hired teacher is automatically a member of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of Bank for his/her accumulated sick leave for first year. After the remainder first year, to remain a member of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of Bank, the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences teacher must donate one day. Any teacher may donate one day to the motherBank and become a member. 4.3.2 Upon request by the Association to the Superintendent, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be reported to the Association. 4.3.3 In the event that the Sick Leave Bank falls below 100 days during the school year, the Association Co-Presidents will be informed by the Superintendent. All teachers will be given the opportunity to donate one or more days to be deductedthe Bank. 4.3.4 In the event that the Sick Leave Bank falls below 100 days before the school year, from whomall teachers, and to remain a member, will donate one or more sick leave days to the person receiving the transferred days. Included Bank. 4.3.5 Days in the notice Sick Leave Bank shall be for serious illness on the part of the teacher, spouse or dependent member of household. It does not cover elective surgery. Teachers who draw benefits under the Teacher Retirement System will cease to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. It is understood serious illness due to pregnancy is to be treated as any other serious illness which otherwise would qualify a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application teacher for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysuse from the Bank. Doctor’s verification required. b. Donations 4.3.6 For participating teachers to withdraw from the bank, a bargaining unit member period of two teaching days must be in units pass following the exhaustion of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated one's sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom 4.3.7 Days from the days are given must personally have Sick Bank may be used non-consecutively pending approval by the catastrophic illness or injurySuperintendent and Sick Leave Bank committee. d. If 4.3.8 Tenured full-time teachers, Non-tenured full-time teachers and part-time teachers may withdraw, upon approval of the bargaining unit member has applied Sick Leave Bank Committee, days from the Sick Leave Bank for disability retirementserious personal illness, then based upon the member can use following schedule: 4.3.9 A committee of the donated leave days until Superintendent and three (3) Association members will review each request and determine if the disability retirement takes effectrequest qualifies for Sick Leave Bank usage. e. No more 4.3.10 A retiring teacher may donate up to ten (10) sick days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysSick Leave Bank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A Sick Leave Bank Program shall enable members who are entitled to sick leave under N.J.S.A. 18A:30-10, and face a catastrophic health condition or injury, to draw needed days of sick leave, donated from other employees, in addition to any days to which they are otherwise entitled. To implement a Lick Leave Bank, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:30-10 and 11, with the following conditions and interpretations: 1. A catastrophic health condition or injury is a condition or combination of conditions that is life threatening. 2. The distribution of the voluntarily donated sick days shall be closely regulated and granted only after approval by a Sick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC). The SLBC will be comprised of six members, three chosen by the Board of Education and three from the WTEA. The committee members shall sign an agreement of confidentiality, recuse themselves from voting if that committee member of family member of the committee member is requesting days from the Sick Leave Bank, be appointed each year by either the Board of Education or the Executive Council of the WTEA and conduct a year-end review of the program and recommend necessary changes. 3. The Sick Leave Bank shall be available to all WTEA members signing an agreement to join. Employees shall be given to enroll and become a member of the Sick Leave Bank program yearly. Members must enroll by September 15th. 4. Members must contribute at least one (1) sick day, annually, to be a member of the Sick Leave Bank. Members may donate any number of their own sick days to the Sick Leave Bank program for the school year. Once contributed, the sick days shall be returned to the member. If a member decides to no longer participate in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairSick Leave Bank, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder member shall not be entitled to reimbursement of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional sick days are still needed, then he/she may request through previously contributed to the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveSick Leave Bank. 5. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of If at any time the number of available days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by Sick Leave Bank falls below fifty (50) days, all current members of the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement Sick Leave Bank program will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply asked to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of contribute one (1) day, but . The additional enrollment period shall last no more than five ten (510) days total per recipient, provided that working days. Members who are on extended leaves of absence or sabbaticals will neither be required to contribute to nor be allowed to draw on the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveSick Leave Bank. c. 6. Any member who has a catastrophic health condition or injury may apply for sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank program. A member will initiate a request or an application to use the Sick Leave Bank through the President of the Association. At that time, the member’s medical practitioner/physician’s statement will be completed. Once the “Request to Utilize” and the physician’s statement are received, the SLBC will be called to meet to discuss the specific request. An approval of four (4) members needs to be received for the request to be approved. The bargaining unit identity of the member to whom making the days are given must personally have request will NOT be shared outside of the catastrophic illness or injurycommittee. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then 7. Sick days granted and awarded from this BAnk will apply only in cases where the member can use will need to be out of work for a minimum of thirty (30) school days, as documented in the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. member’s medical practitioner/physician’s statement. No more than sixty (90) sick days can may be given than needed by granted to any one member per occurrence. The SLBC will analyze the bargaining unit validity and eligibility of each request and submit written approval or denial to the member. The request cannot be appealed to the Superintendent and must follow the provisions, standards and procedures of the Sick Leave Bank. Decisions shall be final and binding and shall be excluded from the contractual grievance procedure up to and including binding arbitration. Any member obtaining approval to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust receive sick days will be required to donate at least one (1) sick day upon his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave return to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave work to be eligible for the purposes of calculating program in the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold future. Upon the Board harmless against claims member’s return to work, all unused sick days provided by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating SLBC shall be donated back to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysSick Leave Bank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to personal illness/disability or serious illness in the judgment immediate family (immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1). The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and total of two hundred fifty (250) or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Use of bank days by participants shall be limited to the school year in which the personal illness/disability or the serious illness in the immediate family began. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a yearly committee made up of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed by WEA; two (2) ▇▇▇▇ classified employees, appointed members, by the classified staff; and two (2) Board administrators appointed members, by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, initial evaluation of the number of days to be deducted, available from whomthe sick leave bank, and the person receiving committee will grant or deny the transferred daysrequest. Included in the notice shall be Upon partial or full denial of a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness request for withdrawal of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations , the employee may appeal the decision of the committee to the Superintendent who will then make the final decision on the appeal. The committee shall insure that withdrawals from a bargaining unit member must the bank under this policy are for maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, prolonged illness/disability, bereavement, or serious illness in the immediate family. • Maternity/paternity/adoptive paid leave shall be in units of one (1) day, but limited to no more than five six (56) days total weeks for normal vaginal delivery and eight (8) weeks for caesarean delivery per recipientfamily, provided that including the donor not go below forty-five (45) days use of the Member of the Bargaining Unit’s accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member leave prior to whom receiving days from the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will bank. If a Member has not earn additional sick leave while receiving reached the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation maximum of sick leave days granted for the 6- or 8-week period, that Member may use the remainder of the days for medical appointments. • Prolonged illness/disability shall mean an illness that a physician would certify as being necessary to another bargaining unit be absent from work or hospitalized. This would also cover a recurring treatment (weekly or monthly appointment) for an existing illness/disability. • The amount of time granted for bereavement shall be the decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. • Serious illness shall mean any illness that a physician would certify as being necessary for the Member of the Bargaining Unit to be in attendance with family members. The Superintendent reserves the right to request verification of the need for absence under provisions of this paragraph. • Immediate family shall be defined as mother, father, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephew, ▇▇▇▇▇, spouse, child, stepchild or step parent, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children, brother, sister, in-laws of any of the above, or death other than in the immediate family where there has been close association. • The amount of time granted for each funeral shall be the decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. The Board of Education reserves the right to overrule the sick leave bank committee if the Board of Education discovers that the committee’s action violates federal or state law. 5. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to the business office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician as to the specific number of days the member shall not count as use will be required to be absent for that specific personal illness/disability or that of the immediate family members serious illness or disability. The business office will forward the request to the committee for a decision. 6. The maximum of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, which the committee may approve additional days up provide to a maximum of 180 (oneparticipant is thirty-hundred eighty) days.five

Sick Leave Bank. When ‌ A sick leave bank shall be established to relieve its members, who voluntarily choose to participate, from undue financial burdens due to absence from work because of illness, injury, or incapacitation sufficiently severe that it would make their presence in school inadvisable. The Bank may be used only by the individual contributor for his/her own illness/disability. The purpose of the Bank is not to provide compensation for extended disabilities. All members are urged to participate in the judgment corporation approved disability and income protection plans and to utilize available salary schedule fringe benefits to offset plan costs. Guidelines for administration of the Sick Leave Bank shall be incorporated in the administration guidelines and bargaining agreement with the teachers. 1. The Sick Leave Bank will be established for the voluntary participation of all teaching and administrative personnel of the Monroe County Community School Corporation. The Sick Leave Bank is excluded from the Grievance Procedure. 2. Membership in the bank program will be open to all teaching and administrative personnel. Teachers serving on temporary contracts are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bank. A member will be defined as a bargaining unit member's physician teacher or administrator who has made at least the required minimum initial contribution of sick leave days to the Bank at the appropriate time of enrollment. Non-teaching and non-administrative members in the Sick Leave Bank as of June 30, 2008 are grandfathered. 3. All participants in the Sick Leave Bank will make a yearly committee made up contribution of six (6) days to establish a sufficient pool of days from which to draw. Days must be contributed by September 1 of each school year or within seven (7) weeks of the first day of employment. This contribution will be at the rate of at least two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersdays per year until the full number of six (6) days is contributed. Sick leave days donated to the bank are considered a permanent contribution and are not transferable to another school corporation. 4. Members will be required to contribute additional days when in the judgement of the Sick Leave Bank Committee the necessity arises. 5. At the time of retirement, two a retiring teacher may donate up to five (25) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all days of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days Sick Leave Bank. 6. Opportunity for enrollment will be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included extended in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraphfollowing manner: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five All new teachers will be allowed to enroll by contributing two (452) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days year until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who contribution level called for in paragraph 3 is using donated sick leave reached. New employees will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation have a period of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.seven

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. Each employee of the district covered by this contract may participate in the judgment Sick Leave Bank. To participate, each employee shall contribute on one (1) of his/her earned sick leave days by September 1st. Sick leave days thus contributed shall be deducted from the individual’s annual sick leave entitlement. The contributed sick leave days shall form a bargaining unit member's physician fund of sick leave days, extending beyond the employees accumulated sick leave, which will be available to all eligible participating employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Back Committee. 2. Application for use of the Bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Committee for their recommendations. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the committee deems necessary, it shall require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a yearly grant has been made. 3. The committee made up shall have the authority to establish such guidelines as it deems necessary to implement this program. Guidelines shall have the approval of two the association. After complete review of the application, the committee shall have the authority to make final decisions within the guidelines as to the disposition of the case. 4. In order for an employee to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the Sick Leave Back, the employee must first: (1) Be a contributor to the bank and (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member have been absent from work due to chair, the employee will exhaust illness or accident for all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, days and 5 additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveworkdays/35 hours. 5. The Association Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish an internal policy determine the number of sick leave days each participant must contribute in order to administer such a transferkeep the Bank solvent. The Association Sick Leave Bank will maintain no more than 60 days total at any one time. 6. The maximum number of days that can be granted in any one fiscal year shall notify not exceed 2 times the treasurer number of the Board, in writing, of participatory employees and/or the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by bank. In no case will the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer granting of leave cause an employee to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no receive more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave firstannual salary for that year. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in A. The purpose of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member sick leave bank is to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated provide sick leave for those participating administrators who have a prolonged, catastrophic or long term illness and/or injury and who have exhausted all their available sick and personal leave entitlements. This benefit would not be available in a workers compensation injury matter. If an administrator is reimbursed for any leave time used under this provision and as a result of a workers compensation decision, such reimbursed time shall be returned to the remainder sick bank first, followed by the employee’s personal leave time. B. Each administrator covered by this agreement who chooses to participate in the sick leave bank shall contribute five (5) sick leave days to the sick leave bank within the first fifteen (15) days of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury effective date of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional administrator's appointment. Such days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer become permanently part of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysbank and cannot be withdrawn. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than C. New administrative employees choosing to participate shall contribute five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five within fifteen (4515) days of accumulated sick leavethe effective date of employment. c. The bargaining unit member D. Administrators who have not participated in the sick leave bank, and who subsequently choose to whom participate, may join within the first fifteen (15) days are given of July of any school year. However, such administrators must personally match the number of days they would have already contributed to the catastrophic illness or injurysick leave bank during the time of their employment in the district since the establishment of the sick bank. d. If E. A Sick Leave Bank Committee, composed of the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirementPresident of the Administrators’ Organization, then or his/her designee, and the member can use Superintendent of Schools, or his/her designee, shall administer the donated sick leave bank program. The committee may grant up to thirty (30) sick leave days until per application. In no event shall an administrator be granted sick bank days whose number exceeds the disability retirement takes effectequivalent of the administrators annual work days. The administrators’ vacation day entitlement will be reduced by a year’s allocation in the event that an administrator accesses the sick leave bank in excess of 195 days. All decisions to accept or reject an application shall be non-grievable. e. No more F. Future contributions will be required when the number of days can be given than needed by in the bargaining unit member bank is diminished to serve out a number that equals three (3) times the regular school yearnumber of administrators included in the sick bank. At that time, and only that school the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the rate of additional contributions, not to exceed five (5) days per participant per year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her G. Eligibility to draw from the sick leave bank shall be limited to those participants who: 1. Have exhausted their own sick leave and personal leave firstentitlement. g. 2. Provide medical evidence of prolonged, catastrophic, or long term illness or injury acceptable to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 3. Make application to the Sick Leave Bank Committee on the appropriate form. H. If agreement on a grant is not achieved by the committee of two, or an applicant is dissatisfied with the decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, an appeal can be made by the applicant to a review board composed of two members appointed by the Superintendent of Schools, two members appointed by the Administrator's Organization President, and one additional member acceptable to both the Superintendent and the Administrator's Organization President. The bargaining unit member decision of the review board shall be final, binding, and non-grievable. I. The maximum number of days available to each participant who meets the criteria in Section 7 is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave limited to 225 days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of J. The district will contribute five (5) sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of days for each administrator who joins the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. bank. The Association five (5) days will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating be added to the Associationbank at the time of the administrator's administration of sick leave transfer daysinitial contribution. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When All certificated employees of the Council School District who are eligible for health insurance may participate in the judgment Sick Leave Bank. To participate, each new employee shall contribute one of his earned sick leave days. For each single day or one-half day contributed by each member, the School District shall add the same. The contributed sick leave days shall form a bargaining unit memberfund that will be available to all eligible participating employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardships caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring serious illness extending beyond the employee's physician and a yearly committee made up accumulated sick leave. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of two the following members: 1. Two (2) ▇▇▇▇ members appointed by the Council Education Association. 2. One (1) member appointed by the District. 3. The two Association Sick Leave Bank Committee members must be Sick Leave Bank members. The District's representative must be a Bank member. At least one representative of the District and one representative of the Association shall be present in order for the Committee to consider application for grants or conduct other business. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the number of sick leave days each participant must contribute in order to keep the Bank solvent with the following limitations: 1. Each participant must contribute the same number of days. 2. All contributions must be whole or half days. 3. The maximum number of days in the Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed 120 days in any school year July 1 to June 30, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member except when new professional employees enter employment with the District. In order for an employee to chairbe eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, the employee will exhaust must first: 1. Be a contributor to the Bank. 2. Have been absent from work due to illness or accident for: a. all of his/her accumulated sick leave days, and b. all of his/her personal leave days. Written application for use of the Bank will be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee prior to or within ten (10) days from the date the applicant returns to the District to resume his or her assignment. If the applicant is incapacitated to such an extent that he or she cannot personally apply for a grant, the applicant's immediate supervisor or immediate family may apply for the remainder grant. All applications for grants from the Bank should be sent to: Sick Leave Bank Committee c/o Clerk Council School District #13 Council, ID 83612 The Committee may require a doctor's written statement as to the nature of the illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made. The Committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will respond within two (2) weeks to each application for a grant in writing and in the event the application is denied, will state the reason(s) for such denial. The Committee shall be the authority to make final decisions within the established guidelines as to the disposition of the case. The maximum number of work days that can be granted to an eligible participant is thirty (30) days/school year (July 1 - June 30). This requirement may be extended an additional thirty (30) days in the event of extenuating circumstances. In no case shall an employee be granted more than sixty (60) days per year. Maternity leave from the Sick Leave Bank will be for six (6) weeks total (except in extenuating circumstances) including all leave days the employee may have at the time of application to the Sick Leave Bank. Bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to the next; all such grants will end at the termination of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury year. If an employee does not use all of the bargaining unit memberdays granted by the Bank, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences the unused sick leave days will be returned to the motherBank. In no case shall an employee be granted more than a total of 180 days from the Sick Leave Bank for all illnesses or disabilities during employment with the District. If the Sick Leave Bank is exhausted during a fiscal year, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through be added upon the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit vote of the members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such district may contribute a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the like number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A voluntary sick-leave bank will be established under the following conditions: 1. Each participating employee contributes one day of sick leave per year to the bank and may draw up to 50 days of sick leave per school year from the bank, provided the first 20 days of sick leave of that year has been covered by accumulated leave or absence without pay. 2. Deadline for sick-leave bank enrollment is September 1 of each year. 3. Administration of the program will be handled by the school business office. 4. All requests for use of sick-leave bank must be submitted in writing to the superintendent. 5. Each employee enrolling in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee bank will exhaust all donate one day of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through bank each September 1 until September 1 contributions build the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy bank total to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred 100 or more days. Included No more days will be added to this maximum until the bank is depleted to 50 days except for new participants. 6. A person withdrawing from membership in the notice shall bank will not be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer able to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave withdraw contributed days. b. Donations 7. A person will not be able to withdraw days from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days bank until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave firstis depleted or they utilize the Maternity/Paternity Leave policy.(2018) 8. Persons withdrawing sick-leave days from the bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member to the bank. g. 9. Request for use of bank days must be accompanied by a letter from an attending physician stating that the employee is unable to perform his/her duties according to contractual obligations. 10. Consideration for use of the sick-leave bank for catastrophic illness of immediate family members can be presented to the Superintendent and/or the Board of Education for approval.(1990) 11. Consideration for use of the sick-leave bank for catastrophic illness of the first year certified employee can be presented to the superintendent and/or the Board of Education for approval. (2018) 12. A letter from the employee’s physician shall be submitted at the time the employee returns to work verifying permission to return to work. (1997) 13. At any time the sick bank falls below 50 days during the school year, members of the sick bank will be assessed a day during the school term. (2005) 14. Sick bank may be used for maternity purposes only when there are unusual complications stemming from the pregnancy. A doctor’s note will be required stating that the mother requires additional days for her physical/mental health. (2005) 15. When a member of the sick bank has depleted his/her sick days and the member needs to contribute a sick bank day to the bank during the school term because it has fallen below 50 days, that member may receive a gift of a sick day from a fellow employee. (2005) 16. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave bank for the certified staff and the sick bank for the support staff are one combined bank. (2005) 17. When a tenured employee retires/resigns from the district, that employee’s unused sick days will be added to the district sick bank. (2006) 18. ESP employees are not earn additional eligible for the sick leave while receiving the donated leave bank until having accumulated 10 sick days. h. 19. A bargaining unit member's donation person will not be able to withdraw days from the bank unless he/she is a contributing member of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in 1. With the judgment approval of the Superintendent, if a bargaining unit member's physician and member exhausts his/her sick leave accumulation because of a yearly committee made up current or past catastrophic or long- term illness or injury of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, either the employee will exhaust all or an immediate family member (as defined in Art. 14.01(A)(9)), another bargaining unit member who is at the same or higher salary may donate up to five (5) days of his/her accumulated sick leave to the donee bargaining unit member requesting the donation of sick days. 2. No bargaining unit member may receive more than an aggregate of thirty (30) donated sick leave days in any one school year, unless granted approval by the Superintendent. If additional days are granted by the Superintendent, this wavier decision shall not set a precedent for future requests for donated days beyond thirty (30) days. Donation of sick days shall be initiated by a bargaining unit member on a form furnished by the Treasurer. Donated sick days shall be added to the accumulated sick leave of the donee bargaining unit member requesting the donation and deducted from the donor bargaining unit member’s accumulated sick leave. 3. To qualify for the remainder absence of the school year due donated sick days provision, the bargaining unit member must submit a doctor’s statement to catastrophic illness or injury the Treasurer certifying the current medical need. 4. Donated sick leave days must be submitted to the Treasurer three (3) work days prior to the need of the bargaining unit membermember receiving the days. This requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Superintendent. However, which does any waiver decision by the superintendent shall not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the motherset a precedent for future requests for a waiver. 5. All accumulated sick days, personal days, and additional vacation days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days must be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement used by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate before donated sick leave daysdays may be used. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must 6. Donated sick leave may not be in units of one (1) dayused for severance pay, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member nor may it be used to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If pay the bargaining unit member has applied for who goes on disability retirement, then the member can use the . 7. Any donated but unused sick leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can will not be given than needed by returned to the bargaining unit member to serve out who donated the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The College will permit employees to transfer accrued but unused sick leave hours to the Association’s Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be administered by the Association. 1. When in the judgment of an employee has exhausted their own accrued sick leave, has a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed memberssignificant medical condition, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairhas been approved for FMLA or OFLA, the employee Association will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due work collaboratively with Human Resources to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, employee of the number of days sick leave hours to be deductedtransferred from the Sick Leave Bank. 2. The approved employee sick leave donation form, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement provided by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing Association, is submitted to Human Resources and must contain the Board treasurer name of the employee wishing to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave dayshours, the number of hours being donated and the employee’s signature consenting to such transfer. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must 3. No more than forty (40) hours may be in units of donated by any one (1) dayemployee per fiscal year. 4. After the hours are transferred, but no more than five (any hours used will be paid at the receiving employee’s rate at the time of the use of such hours. 5) days total per recipient. Prior to receiving any donated sick leave, provided that the donor employee must have exhausted all of their sick leave, vacation and compensatory time. However, the employee is not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated required to have used their personal business/emergency leave or their floating holiday prior to receiving donated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom 6. No employee may receive more than five hundred (500) hours of donated sick time during their employment. In addition, no employee may receive more hours than needed, as determined by the days are given must personally have Association, for the catastrophic illness or injuryabsences caused by the significant medical condition. d. If 7. At the bargaining unit member has applied conclusion of a receiving employee’s FMLA or OFLA period, any unused hours will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. This process will be managed by the Association’s Sick Leave Chairperson. The Chairperson shall provide to Human Resources prior to the 15th of each month a list of individuals receiving sick time and the specific number of hours to be utilized for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effecteach individual. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. 8. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member College shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysreceiving employee. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Lakewood Local Board of Education and LACE hereby agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank (SLB) on the following basis: 1. An enrollment period shall be established annually between September 1 and September 30 for each member of the bargaining unit to voluntarily donate their accumulated, but unused, sick leave days to a SLB. Effective upon ratification of this 2018-2021 Agreement, members previously enrolled in the judgment SLB must re-enroll by donating one (1) day of a sick leave. Employees who had not previously enrolled will have thirty days from the date of Board ratification to enroll by donating one (1) day of sick leave. All new bargaining unit member's physician members shall be eligible for enrollment in the SLB. New members may enroll by donating one (1) sick leave day to the Bank within thirty (30) days after the date of hire. 2. The SLB shall have not less than fifty (50) days. 3. Only individuals who have contributed to the SLB beginning with the 2018- 2019 school year are eligible to withdraw sick days from the SLB. 4. A committee comprised of the superintendent or his/her designee, one (1) non-teaching supervisor, the president of the Association, and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersAssociation members chosen by the Association president, two (2) Board appointed members, shall administer the Bank. The Committee shall develop the approved form and a mutually agreed upon fifth member shall approve applications at its discretion. 5. Use of days from the SLB will be limited to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to unforeseen serious or catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does spouse or member’s dependent children. It may not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences be used for elective surgery. Bargaining unit members must have exhausted all of their accumulated sick leave and permissible advances prior to withdrawals from the SLB. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of their sick leave accumulation, who meet the qualifications of this paragraph, and who have contributed to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she Sick Leave Bank may request through sick leave days from the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other Bank. 6. Approved bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice members shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days granted up to a maximum of 180 twenty (one-hundred eighty20) daysdays from the Bank. The Committee may grant up to an additional twenty (20) days at a time. 7. The Committee shall require bargaining unit members who have requested sick leave days from the Bank to provide a statement from their physician describing the nature of the illness and a prognosis relative to the member's probable period of absence from duty. 8. Members whose request for additional sick days and whose illness or injury is such that their physician cannot give a probable date of return to duty and, who qualify, shall be required to apply for disability retirement. 9. The SLB shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation. 10. Should the number of days in the SLB be exhausted, the Committee will meet to mutually agree upon additional contributions and the procedure for making such contributions. 11. Donations to the SLB shall not disqualify a member for incentive pay. 12. The decisions of the SLB are final and not subject to the grievance procedure.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to provide sick leave for those participating members who have a prolonged, catastrophic or long term illness and/or injury and who have exhausted all their available personal sick leave. This benefit would not be available in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician worker’s compensation injury matter. 2. Effective July 1, 2002 all full time and part time (.5 time or more) professionals, except those filling a yearly committee made up of leave position, and those already enrolled shall contribute two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersdays on the effective date of employment. Such days become permanently part of the sick leave bank and cannot be withdrawn. 3. Future contributions will be required when the number of days in the bank is diminished to a number that equals the number of professional employees covered by this agreement. At that time, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the rate of additional contributions not to exceed two (2) Board appointed membersdays per participant per year. 4. Eligibility to draw from the sick leave bank shall be limited to those participating members who: a. Have exhausted their own personal sick leave. b. Provide medical evidence of prolonged, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member catastrophic, or long term illness or injury acceptable to chairthe Sick Leave Bank Committee. c. Make application to the Sick Leave Bank Committee on the appropriate form. 5. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed of the President of the Professionals Association, the employee will exhaust all of or his/her accumulated designee, and the Superintendent of Schools, or his/her designee. The Committee may grant up to 30 sick leave for days per application. All decisions to accept or reject an application shall be non-grievable. 6. If agreement on a grant is not achieved by the remainder committee of two, or an applicant is dissatisfied with the decision of the school year due Sick Leave Bank Committee, an appeal can be made by the applicant to catastrophic illness or injury a review board composed of two members appointed by the Superintendent of Schools, two members appointed by the President of the bargaining unit memberTeachers Association, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences and one additional member acceptable to both the Superintendent and the Teachers Association President. The decision of the review board shall be final, binding, and non-grievable. 7. The maximum number of days available to each participant who meets the criteria in Section 5 is limited to 360 days. 8. Each year during the month of June, the district agrees to credit one (1) sick day to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent BHBLTA Sick Bank for each employee that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavewas newly hired for that school year. 9. The Association District shall establish provide the Chief Negotiator with an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, accounting of the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank by September 30th of each year.The District agrees to be deductedprovide the Association with an annual accounting of the BHBLTA Sick Leave Bank after the district has contributed its sick days as required by Section 3 of this Agreement. The annual accounting shall include the total number of days at the beginning of the year, from whomthe number of days added to the BHBLTA Sick Leave Bank by members of the Association, the number of days added to the BHBLTA Sick Leave Bank by the District and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement number of days used by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness members of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When Sick Leave Bank 1-1 The sick leave bank provides additional income replacement support to employee-members in the judgment times of personal medical need or certain instances of care of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed memberschild after all leave accruals are exhausted, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated including any sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick personal leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick or other leave. c. The bargaining unit member 1-2 Eligibility periods are annual periods of 12 months, from July 1 to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school June 30 of each year. f. The bargaining unit 1-3 Employees may become members by donating initially one sick day of 8 hours or the FTE equivalent, to the sick leave bank. By donating, the employee-member must exhaust hiscan make a request/her own sick and personal leave firstclaim during any period of eligibility. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving 1-4 Employees may enter or maintain membership during the donated leave daysannual benefit open enrollment period. New employees may enter membership at time of hire. h. A bargaining unit member's 1-5 Membership requires 8 hours of donation of sick leave accruals, or a prorated portion of total FTE, at time of hire and in the annual benefit open enrollment period. 1-6 All donations are made to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use a general sick leave bank fund. No donations are allowed to direct individuals, or specified groups. 1-7 Any employee donation contributions are permanent and irrevocable. 1-8 Employees may request a benefit from the sick leave bank for personal illness or injury, or serious injury or illness of a child for which the employee provides care. 1-9 An employee who receives a benefit from the sick leave bank will be a required participant, donating 8 hours of sick leave per year, for the purposes duration of calculating the nona career with Jeffco Public Schools. Requests/Grants 2-use incentive payment1 All accrued sick, personal, vacation, compensatory or other leave hours/days must be exhausted before a request may be granted. i. The Association 2-2 Employees will defend complete a request form and hold provide requested documentation of injury or illness in order to be considered for a grant of hours/days. Requests may be granted based on an appropriate qualified injury or illness that meets the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration standard definitions of sick leave transfer FMLA or short term disability, and uses these approval periods as method for determining days/hours granted. j. A maximum 2-3 Employees in their first three years of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can employment may request a family hardship grant. To do so, employees will complete a request form for family hardship, specifically for the care of a child with severe injury or illness. An award may be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days made up to a maximum of 180 (one10 days only. This is available only to employees in the first three years of employment, and only one time in the employee’s career. 2-hundred eighty) 4 Requests/Grants can be made for full days of absence and for intermittent absences in cases of demonstrated need. 2-5 Maximum grant allowance for personal injury or illness is 30 days; in the event an employee is receiving other income replacement through district programs/insurances, the sick leave bank may grant only up to 30 days of insurance offset. 2-6 Any granted but unused hours/days will be returned to the sick leave bank fund for use by other employees in need. Program Management 3-1 The program will have oversight from the Benefit Advisory Committee, or in absence of a Benefit Advisory Committee, any other committee designated by the Chief Human Resources Officer, which includes representation of the JCEA. 3-2 The program must meet any and all legal requirements as identified by the district. 3-3 The Human Resources Department will manage the donation/enrollment process, request/grant review, and program management. 3-4 The Human Resources Department will maintain program guidelines related to enrollment, eligibility, usage, implementation, and reporting. 3-5 Annual reporting will be provided to the Benefit Advisory Committee, including summary of donated hours, granted hours, grants made and denials of grants. 3-6 At the end of each program year, any days/hours remaining in the program account will carry over to the following year for granting to employees. 3-7 If days/hours are exhausted in any program year, the program will be suspended until the following benefit enrollment period, when annual enrollment collects new days/hours.

Sick Leave Bank. When in A. The purpose of the judgment of a sick leave bank shall be to extend additional sick leave days to bargaining unit membermembers should an illness or injury as described below in Section C of this Article exhaust the employee's physician and a yearly committee made up accumulated sick leave. B. Each employee may contribute an initial one-half (1/2) day of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her their accumulated sick leave for to a common bank. 1. New employees become eligible to participate in the remainder sick leave bank within 30 (thirty) calendar days of the initial hire date within a given school year. 2. Current employees who have not participated previously shall be permitted to enroll not later than October 31 of any year due to catastrophic illness or injury with an effective eligibility date of November 1 of that year. 3. Enrollment in the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth bank will continue each year unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Boardrescinded, in writing, by the employee or employment with the District is terminated. An annual reminder of enrollment will be posted on the District website for employees, on or before October 1 Employees will be able to view their enrollment status through a District portal within 90 (ninety) days of enrollment. 4. Further yearly contributions to be made on or before October 31 of any year shall be limited to the number of days necessary to be deducted, from whom, and bring the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be bank to a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units level of one (1) day, but no day per member of the bank. Such contributions are irrevocable. 5. Only employees who have contributed days to the bank may apply for days from the bank. 6. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary. 7. Previously donated days shall remain in the bank. C. Upon depleting accumulated sick leave and after obtaining a healthcare provider’s statement certifying a life-threatening or debilitating physical illness or injury preventing the member from performing the duties of their job for more than five 10 (ten) workdays, a member may request days from the bank. 1. A committee composed of three (3) members appointed by the District and three (3) members appointed by the president of the Association will meet once a month to review employee requests. 2. The committee may grant the request if (1) District records show that the member has exhausted their accumulated sick leave; (2) the member is not eligible for lost time compensation under Worker's Compensation or under PERS disability, or under the District's long-term disability insurance; (3) the member is a contributing member to the sick leave bank; (4) the member has experienced a life-threatening or debilitating physical illness or injury that has prevented them from performing their job requirements for more than 10 (ten) days and a healthcare provider has certified in writing this illness or injury; and (5) there are sufficient days total per recipientin the sick leave bank to cover the request. D. A person designated by the District, provided that will collect and disseminate information to the donor Sick Leave Bank Committee at their regularly scheduled meetings. 1. Information will be presented in a confidential manner which does not go below forty-five disclose the name or workplace of the applicant. 2. The Committee will make all decisions regarding the granting of sick bank leave. 3. Leave may be granted for full or partial amount of days requested, up to the 50 (45fifty) day limit. 4. In determining if a request is approved or denied, the Committee may take into consideration the number of hours previously approved from the sick bank to the employee. E. If the request is denied, the member shall be informed in writing as to the reason for denial. The actions of the Committee shall not be subject to any further appeal through the grievance procedure or otherwise. F. If the request is approved, the Committee shall notify the District office, and subsequent days of absence due to the illness or injury, including the first 10 (ten) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If , if the bargaining unit employee's accumulated sick leave was not available for those days, will be charged to the bank until further notice. However, in no case will more than a total of 50 (fifty) days of sick leave from the sick leave bank be approved per individual member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that in any one school year. f. G. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick District shall keep accurate records of leave accumulated by the bank and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another used by the bank, which shall not be greater than an aggregate of one (1) hour per FTE in the bargaining unit member as of October 31 per school year. These records shall not count as use be available at all times for review by the Committee members and by the Association. Annually the District shall notify the Association in writing of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend accumulated days and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating days charged to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysbank that year. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When Sick leave is defined as the paid hours given to an eligible employee in accordance with this Section 3. The Library shall provide a sick leave bank for employees with long-term illnesses or injuries which shall operate under the following procedures: A. An employee with a serious health condition that incapacitates her/him for thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or more who has exhausted her/his sick time benefits and all paid time off benefits (vacation and holiday compensatory time, except as noted below), may request additional sick leave benefits by submitting the sick leave bank request form to Human Resources. Upon prior written request to the Human Resources Manager, an employee may reserve up to forty (40) hours of his/her accrued vacation time (or pro-rated equivalent for part-time employees) for use following return from sick leave bank. An employee may not request sick leave bank usage in the judgment first year after joining the sick leave bank unless he/she has joined in the first year he/she was eligible to participate. An employee with a serious health condition, following initial qualification for sick leave bank benefits, will be eligible for additional sick leave bank benefits for the same serious health condition without a new qualifying period of incapacity, provided a sick leave bank application is submitted within one hundred twenty (120) days of the employee's return to work from his/her prior sick leave bank leave. B. In addition to the circumstances described in subsection 2.A, above, the Labor/Management Committee shall also have the authority to approve the use of sick bank benefits for an employee who has a serious health condition but who may not need to be absent thirty (30) consecutive calendar days. The Labor/Management Committee may only approve sick bank benefits if the employee is a member of sick bank. In addition, the employee must have been absent at least five (5) consecutive calendar days during the previous twelve (12) month period for the same serious health condition, or must be expected to be absent at least five (5) consecutive calendar days for the serious health condition at the time of the employee’s application for sick bank benefits. C. The employee with the serious health condition must present a physician's statement to Human Resources along with her/his sick leave bank request form; such statement must specify the date when the employee is expected to be able to return to work. The Human Resources Department will notify the Labor/Management Committee upon receipt of any sick leave bank request form. The Labor/Management Committee may decide to require the employee to supply additional statements from his/her attending physician in order to qualify for sick leave bank benefits. The Labor/Management Committee may also require an employee to be examined by a medical provider selected by the Library if the information provided by the employee's medical provider for initial or continuing eligibility for use of the sick leave bank is insufficient. In such cases, the Labor/Management Committee will give written notice to the employee of the requirement of an additional examination and the expectations for the medical examination. The results of the medical examination will be reviewed with the employee. The cost of the examination is to be paid by the Library. D. The employee must have a reasonable expectation that she/he will return to work based on the physician's statement in order to request sick leave bank benefits. E. The employee must authorize the Library to provide relevant information relating to his/her sick leave bank request to each member of the Labor/Management Committee, and each member of the Labor/Management Committee will be required to hold that information in strictest confidence. The Labor/Management Committee will review individual cases and approve or reject all sick leave bank applications based on the eligibility criteria established herein. The Labor/Management Committee will give written notice to the employee of acceptance or rejection of her/his sick leave bank application. The Labor/Management Committee may make adjustments to the sick leave bank program so long as such adjustments do not contradict the express terms of this Agreement. F. Absent exigent circumstances, in any three (3) year period, an employee may only receive up to one thousand (1,000) hours of sick leave bank hours donated by other employees if sick leave bank is being used for the employee’s own illness or up to five hundred (500) hours if sick leave bank is being used for the illness of a member of the employee’s family where the employee’s presence is medically required. These amounts shall be prorated for part-time employees. G. To be eligible to participate in sick leave bank benefits, an employee must have completed one year of service and must have donated to the sick leave bank in the year in which he/she seeks to apply for sick leave bank benefits. For employees who donated in the immediately preceding year, the minimum donation is ten (10) hours for employees who work 32 to 40 hours per week and five (5) hours for employees who work less than 32 hours per week. For employees who did not donate in the immediately preceding year, the minimum donation is sixteen (16) hours for employees who work 32 to 40 hours per week and eight (8) hours for employees who work less than 32 hours per week. Except as provided in subsection 3.E, above, the maximum donation by an employee in one year is fifty (50) hours for an employee who works 32 to 40 hours per week and thirty (30) hours for an employee who works less than 32 hours per week. Donations must be made by the end of January of each year. Any employee who wishes to donate shall sign a mutually agreed-upon form supplied by Human Resources to all eligible employees in late December or early January of each year. In January of any year, the Library and the Union may mutually agree to waive the requirement of a new contribution from employees who made donations in the immediately preceding year when the balance in the sick leave bank is deemed sufficient to meet the anticipated need in the coming year. An employee who has not completed one year of service as of January 31 may donate the requisite annual number of hours to the sick leave bank by initiating a donation during the pay period in which the employee attains his/her first anniversary of employment and he/she will then become immediately eligible to request sick leave bank benefits. The Labor/Management Committee may request additional donation of sick leave bank hours from Library employees who earlier donated when the total number of hours in the sick leave bank falls below one thousand (1,000) at any point during the calendar year. H. An employee absent for more than thirty (30) consecutive days on an unpaid leave of absence as defined in Article XIV and who has insufficient sick time or other paid time off accruals to donate the required amount may participate in the sick leave bank for that calendar year by making the required donation not later than 90 days following his/her return to work, provided this is not the employee’s first sick leave bank donation. I. An employee who does not have any sick time accrued at the time of donation, but who does have vacation accrued time, may file paperwork to allow Human Resources to convert up to the necessary donation amount of vacation accrual for sick leave bank to satisfy the annual request of the sick leave bank donation. J. Both bargaining and non-bargaining unit member's physician employees may make sick leave bank donations and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairrequest sick leave bank benefits. K. During sick leave bank usage, the employee will exhaust all not accrue vacation, sick time, or other paid time off. L. No grievance may be filed regarding the administration of histhis program. M. An employee shall resume her/her accumulated his former position upon completion of any approved sick leave bank usage. N. If an employee is unable to return to work at the time originally designated by the employee’s health care provider, a request for the remainder an extension of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences sick leave bank benefits is subject to the mothersame approval process as the initial application. O. The Library may temporarily replace an employee on approved sick leave bank leave. Upon the employee’s exhaustion of sick leave bank leave, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick unpaid disability leave, if otherwise eligible for such leave, pursuant to Article XIV, Section 5. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member employee fails to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust return on his/her own sick return to work date and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn fails to request additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstanceswhich he/she is entitled, the committee may approve additional days up employee shall be considered to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.have resigned on the return to work date.‌

Sick Leave Bank. When in A sick leave bank shall be established by the judgment parties. Each administrator employed as of July 1 of each year shall contribute a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up maximum of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, days of their accumulated sick leave to the sick leave bank. The amount of sick leave to be contributed shall be established by the committee based upon current accumulation. The minimum contribution will be four hours. An administrator who commences employment with the System during a contract year shall not be a member of the sick leave bank until the administrator has contributed two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member days to chairthe bank on July 1. In the event an administrator has an insufficient number of sick leave days to contribute to the sick leave bank as of July 1, the employee will exhaust all administrator shall not be a member of his/her accumulated the bank that year. An administrator drawing sick leave for days from the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days leave bank as of July 1 can donate will be eligible to continue to draw days from the bank until the maximum number of sick leave daysdays that may be withdrawn is reached. Administrators shall be entitled to utilize the sick leave bank on the following schedule: Up to 1 year continuous service 10 days per year Up to 3 years continuous service 20 days per year Up to 6 years continuous service 30 days per year Up to 10 years continuous service 45 days per year 10 years of more continuous service 60 days per year a. No administrator may draw more than sixty (60) days from the sick leave bank in any twelve month period. b. Donations Sick leave days may be drawn from the sick leave bank only after exhaustion of personal sick leave, personal days and vacation days and only to cover a critical or long-term illness or injury. Sick leave days may be drawn from the sick leave bank only for personal illness or injury and may require a medical statement from a bargaining unit member must physician. c. Sick leave shall be in units distributed from the sick leave bank after written application by an administrator and with the approval of a Sick Leave Bank Committee which is to be composed of one (1) day, but no more than five System representative and one (51) days total per recipient, provided that Administrative member of the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit from each college. The System representative will be an ex officio, non-voting member of the committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish and communicate to whom all members, criteria for the payment of sick leave days are given must personally have from the catastrophic illness or injurysick leave bank. The decision of the committee is final and not subject to the grievance procedure. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated Sick leave days until may be accumulated in the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up bank to a maximum of 180 two hundred (one-hundred eighty200) days. When two hundred (200) days are accumulated as of July 1, contributions to the bank will not occur for that fiscal year. e. In the event that the sick leave bank has reached 200 day maximum and a new administrator is not able to contribute, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may authorize the new administrator to draw sick leave days from the bank. When the sick leave bank falls below 200 day maximum, all new non-contributing administrators who have drawn from the bank will each be required to contribute two days to the bank in addition to the contributions required of all other bank members.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to personal illness/disability or serious illness in the judgment immediate family (immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1). The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up total of two hundred fifty (2250) ▇▇▇▇ or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Use of bank days by participants shall be limited to the school year in which the personal illness/disability or the serious illness in the immediate family began. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a committee of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed membersby WEA, two (2) Board classified employees, appointed membersby that group, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, (2) administrators appointed by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association committee shall establish an internal policy guidelines to administer such a transfergovern its decision-making process regarding the granting or denial of requests for withdrawals from the bank. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of initial decision on the number of days granted or denied from the sick leave bank. Upon partial or full denial of a request for withdrawal of sick leave days, the employee may appeal the decision of the business manager to the sick leave bank committee who will then make the final decision on the appeal. The business manager and committee shall insure that withdrawals from the bank under this policy are made available to those applicants who have not abused sick leave, and provide that such withdrawal is made for prolonged illness or disability caused by a catastrophic accident. The committee guidelines shall provide a basis for insuring that withdrawals from the bank under this policy is made available only to those applicants who have not abused sick leave, and provide that such withdrawal is made for prolonged illness or disability caused by catastrophic accident. The Board of Education reserves the right to overrule the sick leave bank committee if the Board of Education discovers that the committee’s action violates federal or state law. 5. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to the business office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician as to the specific number of days the member will be required to be deducted, from whom, and absent for that specific personal illness/disability or that of the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the daysimmediate family members serious illness or disability. The appropriateness business office will forward the request to the committee for a decision. 6. The maximum of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with sick leave days which the affected member. These additional limitations will apply committee may provide to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortya participant is thirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate annually. Such additional sick leave days. b. Donations days shall not be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per the recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of ’s future accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom ; however, each participant who has received assistance from the days are given sick leave bank must personally have reestablish participation for the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit 7. When a Member of the Bargaining Unit is retiring at the end of the school year, the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation may donate up to fifty (50) days of unused sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The Newark City Board of Education and the judgment of Newark Teachers Association hereby agree to a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth Sick Leave Bank on the following basis: A. The enrollment period for each member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional voluntarily donate unused sick leave days are still needed, then he/she may request to a Sick Leave Bank is September 1 through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveOctober 15. The Association Sick Leave Bank shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with have not less than forty-five fifty (4550) days as certified by the Association. The Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed a maximum of July 1 can donate sick leave four hundred (400) days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units B. A committee comprised of the Superintendent or his/her designee, the President of the Association, or his/her designee, one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed Administrator chosen by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school yearSuperintendent, and only that school year. f. one (1) Association member chosen by the Association President, shall administer the Bank. The bargaining unit member must exhaust Committee shall approve applications for additional requests, as described in Paragraph D, at its discretion. The Superintendent or his/her own sick and personal leave firstdesignee shall serve as chairperson. g. The bargaining C. Bargaining unit member members who is using donated have exhausted all of their sick leave will not earn additional accumulation and who have developed a serious or catastrophic illness are eligible for sick leave while receiving days from the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of Bank. The sick leave bank committee has the authority to another bargaining unit member shall not count as approve use of sick leave days from the bank for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentextenuating circumstances that involves a unit member’s immediate family (as defined in Article 22). i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a D. Eligible bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can members shall be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days granted up to a maximum of 180 twenty (one-hundred eighty20) daysdays from the Bank, per request and a total of forty (40) days per school year unless additional days are granted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. E. Prior to approval for the advancement of days from the sick leave bank, or within ten (10) days of the date of the request, the member shall be required to provide documentation to substantiate his/her serious or catastrophic illness when requested by any Committee member. F. In no case shall the Sick Leave Bank prevent or prolong a bargaining unit member from applying for and going on disability retirement. G. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation and/or severance pay.

Sick Leave Bank. When 5.15.1 A sick leave bank shall be established for the use of District employees in the judgment event of catastrophic illness or injury resulting in long term absence from employment, or for the long term care of a bargaining family member who suffers from a catastrophic illness or injury which creates a financial hardship on the employee. 5.15.2 Each employee who wishes to voluntarily participate in the sick leave bank shall donate a minimum of eight (8) hours with additional increments of one (1) hour up to a maximum of an equivalent of six (6) days of paid leave (either sick or vacation) each year. Written notification of the request to donate must be submitted to the Human Resource Coordinator and Local 1021 by the tenth (10th) day of any month. Upon receipt of any such written notification to both the District Human Resource Coordinator and Local 1021, the donated days shall be deducted from that individual employee's sick leave balance. All days donated shall be irrevocable. 5.15.3 A District employee participating in the sick leave bank who has depleted all of his/her sick leave days and any other paid days off as a result of any such catastrophic illness or injury may request in writing from the District additional sick leave days which must be accompanied by a letter from the employee's medical physician verifying the seriousness of the illness or injury. That verification shall be subject to review and further verification by a medical physician, jointly appointed to perform that function at no cost to the unit member's physician . Approval of the number of days granted, up to a maximum of twenty (20) working days in any school year, shall be jointly decided by the District and a yearly committee made up SEIU Local 1021 Sick Leave Committee. 5.15.3.1 The Committee shall consist of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, members of SEIU Local 1021 unit and two (2) Board members of the Administration. Unit members of SEIU will be selected by the SEIU Chapter Executive Board. The Administration members shall be appointed members, by the Superintendent. 5.15.3.2 The Sick Leave Committee shall meet as necessary to administer the Sick Leave Bank. The employer shall maintain the records of transfer into and a mutually agreed upon fifth member out of the Sick Leave Bank. 5.15.3.3 The Sick Leave Committee shall be the decision making body to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated distribute sick leave for credits from the remainder of Sick Leave Bank upon an application by the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member. 5.15.4 If during the open enrollment period, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences a unit member wishing to participate in the motherSick Leave Bank has no sick leave days to contribute, and additional days are still needed, then that unit member shall be permitted to participate provided that he/she may request through shall donate the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate first sick leave daysday he/she accrues after the month of enrollment. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Lakewood Local Board of Education and the Lakewood Education Association hereby agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank (SLB) on the following basis: 1. An enrollment period shall be established between September 1 and September 30 for each member of the bargaining unit to voluntarily donate a maximum of one (1) day of their accumulated, but unused, sick leave days to a SLB. The SLB shall have not less than fifty (50) days. The SLB shall not exceed a maximum of one (1) day times the total number of members of the bargaining unit. However, all employees who have not previously joined shall be given the opportunity to do so on an annual basis. Only individuals who have contributed to the SLB are eligible to withdraw sick days from the SLB. All new bargaining unit members shall be eligible for enrollment in the judgment SLB. New members may enroll by donating one (1) sick leave day to the Bank within thirty (30) days after the date of a bargaining unit member's physician hire. 2. A committee comprised of the superintendent or his/her designee, the president of the Association, one (1) building principal chosen by the superintendent, and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersAssociation members chosen by the Association president, two (2) Board appointed members, shall administer the Bank. The Committee shall develop the approved form and a mutually agreed upon fifth member shall approve applications at its discretion. 3. Use of days from the SLB will be limited to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to serious or catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy spouse or childbirth unless there are member’s dependent children. Bargaining unit members must have exhausted all of their accumulated sick leave and permissible advances prior to withdrawals from the SLB. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of their sick leave accumulation, who have developed a serious or catastrophic consequences illness, and who have contributed to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she Sick Leave Bank may request through sick leave days from the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other Bank. 4. Approved bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice members shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days granted up to a maximum of 180 twenty (one-hundred eighty20) daysdays from the Bank. The Committee may grant up to an additional twenty 5. The Committee shall require bargaining unit members who have requested sick leave days from the Bank to provide a statement from their physician describing the nature of the illness and a prognosis relative to the member's probable period of absence from duty. 6. Members whose request for additional sick days and whose illness or injury is such that their physician cannot give a probable date of return to duty and, who qualify, shall be required to apply for disability retirement. 7. The SLB shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation. 8. Should the number of days in the SLB be exhausted, the Committee will meet to mutually agree upon additional contributions and the procedure for making such contributions. 9. Donations to the SLB shall not disqualify a member for incentive pay. 10. The decisions of the SLB are final and not subject to the grievance procedure.

Sick Leave Bank. When in 8-9-1 Any classified employee covered by this agreement shall become a member of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for bank by contributing the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units hourly equivalent of one (1) sick leave day. The minimum accumulated hours in the sick bank shall be 3200 hours. When the accumulated sick leave hours fall below 3200, but no all classified employees shall contribute the equivalent of one (1) sick leave day (converted to hours) to the sick leave bank. (2011) Classified employees may request sick leave hours from the sick leave bank for their own long-term disability or illness only. When a member of the bank has a long-term injury, incapacity or illness causing an employee to be off work at least ten (10) consecutive days and has exhausted all forms of leave (paid or unpaid), he/she, or an immediate family member, may request additional sick leave from the bank. This request must be in writing by completing and submitting an application to Human Resources. If the request is for more than five ten (510) days total per recipientdays, a written statement from a healthcare provider must accompany the request. Human Resources will notify the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall consist of the Classified President, two appointed members of the Classified Association and an appointee by the District. The Committee shall meet the first week of every month, provided that applications have been submitted. Submission for sick leave days from the donor Sick leave Bank does not go below forty-five (45) guarantee acceptance and/or approval for requested days. No sick days of accumulated will be awarded in advance or “forward”; however, if sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have awarded, the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust Business Office may “back date” so an employee is not penalized on his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated paycheck. (2018) 8-9-2 Upon its approval of a sick leave request, the Executive Committee will notify the District Business Office. (2011) 8-9-3 The number of days extended to a request will not earn exceed 10 days unless additional days are available and approved by the Committee. The maximum cumulative number of days, which any one person can be granted from the bank during his/her period of employment with the district, is sixty days (60). A classified employee leaving the employment of the District, who has used the sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of bank, must transfer any unused sick leave days to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave bank to replace the days used before being paid for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of unused sick leave transfer according to Article 8-8. (2007) Any reference to “days. j. ” is converted to “hours” in keeping with the new absence reporting system of the District. (2013) 8-9-5 A maximum of 120 workers compensation extended leave qualifies for 33.3% sick leave bank as the employee is entitled to 66.7% disability payments through the workers compensation program. (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.2017)

Sick Leave Bank. When in Upon initiation of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury bank, each employee of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' will contribute one months accumulated sick leaveleave based on the employee’s FTE as of September first to establish the sick leave bank. At the beginning of each year in which the bank has fallen below thirty days, each employee will contribute another month’s accumulated sick leave based on the employee’s FTE. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days contributed to the employee shall not exceed twenty days based upon the employee’s FTE in any contract year. To be deductedeligible for sick leave withdrawal, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall following criteria must be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the daysmet: 1. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member employee must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave, vacation and paid personal leave firstleave. g. 2. The bargaining unit member who is using donated employee or his/her representative must complete an application and submit it to the Human Resources office for consideration. 3. An advisory committee including the President of BCEA, the Supervisor of the Employee and the Director of Human Resources will advise the Superintendent relative to use of days from the sick leave bank. The committee will not earn additional consider any application where the employee is not under the continuing care of a physician (this program is intended for extremely serious catastrophic illnesses/injuries). The employee shall not have habitually abused the sick leave while receiving benefit in the donated past. The number of days contributed to the employee shall not exceed twenty days based upon the employee’s FTE in any contract year. Sick leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation bank withdrawals terminate when Workers’ Compensation coverage begins or at the end of the contract year whichever comes first. Each year an employee uses the sick leave bank he/she must pay back the number of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) bank days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up used to a maximum of 180 ten days. These days (onepay back days) will accumulate each time the bank is used and will be paid back at the rate of two days per year until borrowed days have been repaid. If an employee separates from the district before the full repayment of these sick days, the remaining un-hundred eighty) daysrepaid days will be deducted from that employee’s accumulated sick leave days and restored to the bank insofar as such days are available.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The Board in cooperation with the judgment of Association will establish a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of Sick Leave Bank for educators, who shall be required to donate one (1) sick day to the bank by September 1, or within two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (weeks of hire date. 2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder . The executive board of the school year due Association will administer the Sick Leave Bank. 3. The intent of this plan is to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated provide extended sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement as limited by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer Sick Leave Bank provisions, to transfer the days. The appropriateness Sick Leave Bank members who by reason of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate illness exceed their available personal sick leave days. b. Donations 4. An educator who has contributed will not be able to withdraw days from the bank until after their own accrued sick leave days have been depleted and a bargaining unit member must be in units of one two‐ (12) dayday deduction period has transpired for each extended illness. Should a single extended illness exceed ten (10) days, but no more than five the deduction will not apply. Persons on disability or retiring are exempt from the five‐ (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five day deduction. 5. A member is entitled to a lifetime maximum of ninety (4590) days of accumulated sick leavefrom the Sick Leave Bank; however, grants for days are limited to twenty (20) days per request, and the initial request and any subsequent request must be verified, in writing, by the member’s physician. c. 6. The bargaining unit Association may request that contributing members donate an additional day(s) to the Sick Leave Bank when the number of days in the bank at the beginning of the second semester drops below two‐hundred fifty (250). 7. An educator withdrawing sick leave days from the bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular yearly contributing member to whom the bank. 8. A representative from the Association will meet monthly with the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources or designee for the purpose of providing current information about use of the Sick Leave Bank. 9. The Board/Association will monitor the use of Sick Leave Bank days, including, specifically, the impact of Paragraph six (6) above. 10. Members receiving workers’ compensation are ineligible for sick bank leave, nor can they use sick leave bank days are given must personally in place of workers’ compensation. 11. Should a member have any additional sick days upon retirement, the member may choose to donate them back to the Sick Leave Bank. 12. Sick leave bank days may be used intermittently with ongoing treatment related to a catastrophic illness or injuryinjury in both full and half‐day increments. A doctor’s note will be required. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in Long-Term Disability 9.8-1 Only individuals who have contributed to the judgment bank are eligible for benefits. 9.8-2 Benefits are available only to members of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) the sick leave bank who have been employed by the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and City School District for a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, minimum of three years of continuous service. 9.8-3 The maximum cumulative number of days which any one person can be granted from the employee will exhaust all of bank during his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder period of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed employment with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five ▇▇▇▇▇▇ City School District is sixty (4560) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations 9.8-4 Applicants for benefits from the sick leave bank must submit an application to the Classified Advisory Committee of the School District. Sick Leave Bank Application form may be picked up from District Human Resources or the Advisory Committee Chair or may be downloaded from the District website. The Classified Advisory Committee in turn will make a bargaining unit member recommendation to the Board of Trustees. The decision of the Board is final. 9.8-5 At the beginning of each school year there will be a nine-week open enrollment period. Eligible classified employees must be notify the personnel office in units writing of their desire to participate in the bank. 9.8-6 Those employees previously enrolled in the bank will continue their participation from year to year unless they notify the personnel office in writing of intent to withdraw. Such withdrawal from the bank must occur during the enrollment period and will not result in reinstatement of the time contributed to the bank. 9.8-7 When the total number of hours in the sick leave bank is reduced to less than 480 hours, the Classified Advisory Committee will inform the bank membership and the personnel department that a mandatory contribution of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total sick leave day per recipient, provided that member will be made to reimburse the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leavebank. c. The bargaining unit member 9.8-8 Employees who retire or leave employment with the District may donate unused sick leave hours to whom the days are given bank. This donation is limited to eight hours and must personally have come from the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If hours for which the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then employee would be paid. This donation is in addition to any other hours contributed during the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member 9.8-9 Employees who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving use this Article of the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation contract shall allow the Employee Advisory Committee review of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use hours and usage and review of sick annual leave hours when applying for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentlongterm disability. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of 9.8-10 Employees must exhaust all their paid leave status days (sick leave, annual leave, personal leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (oneor C.T.O.) before this long-hundred twenty) days term disability can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysused.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member The Program will permit full time employees to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated transfer accrued but unused sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences hours to the mother, and additional days Union’s Sick Leave Bank. Part time employees are still needed, then he/she ineligible to transfer accrued but unused sick leave nor are they eligible to use sick leave bank donated time. The Sick Leave Bank will be administered by the Union. 21.1 An employee may request through a donation from the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick Sick Leave Bank when they have exhausted their own accrued sick, vacation leave and compensatory time and have been approved for FMLA/OFLA qualified medical leave, for their own medical condition. The Association shall establish an internal policy Union will work collaboratively with Human Resources to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, them of the number of days sick leave hours to be deductedtransferred from the Sick Leave Bank. Sick Leave Bank hours will be allocated on a first-come first-awarded basis. 21.2 The employee sick leave donation form, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement provided by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing Union, must be submitted to Human Resources and must contain the Board treasurer name and signature of the employee wishing to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave dayshours to the Sick Leave Bank pool. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no 21.3 No more than five forty (540) days total hours may be donated by any one employee per recipientyear. 21.4 After the hours are transferred, provided that any hours will be paid at the donor not go below forty-five receiving employee’s rate at the time of the use of such hours. 21.5 No employee may receive more than four hundred eighty (45480) days of accumulated sick hours during his or her employment. In addition, no employee may receive more hours than needed for the absences caused by the employee’s approved FMLA/OFLA qualified leave. c. 21.6 At the conclusion of the FMLA or OFLA period, any unused hours will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. This process will be managed by the Union’s Sick Leave Chairperson. The bargaining unit member Chairperson shall provide to whom Human Resources prior to the days are given must personally have 15th of each month a list of each individual receiving sick time and the catastrophic illness or injuryspecific number of hours to be utilized for each individual. d. If 21.7 The College shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated employee. Any sick leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed bank decisions made by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will Union are not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating subject to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysgrievance process in this Agreement. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A voluntary sick-leave bank will be established under the following conditions: 1. Each participating employee contributes one day of sick leave per year to the bank, and may draw up to 50 days of sick leave per school year from the bank, provided the first 20 days of sick leave of that year has been covered by accumulated leave or absence without pay. 2. Deadline for sick-leave bank enrollment is September 1 of each year. 3. Administration of the program will be handled by the school business office. 4. All requests for use of sick-leave bank must be submitted in writing to the superintendent. 5. Each employee enrolling in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee bank will exhaust all donate one day of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through bank each September 1 until September 1 contributions build the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy bank total to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred 100 or more days. Included No more days will be added to this maximum until the bank is depleted to 50 days except for new participants. 6. A person withdrawing from membership in the notice shall bank will not be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer able to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave withdraw contributed days. b. Donations 7. A person will not be able to withdraw days from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days bank until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave firstis depleted or they utilize the Maternity/Paternity Leave policy. (2018) 8. Persons withdrawing sick-leave days from the bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member to the bank. g. The bargaining unit member who 9. Request for use of bank days must be accompanied by a letter from an attending physician stating that the employee is using donated unable to perform his/her duties according to contractual obligations. 10. Consideration for use of the sick-leave bank for catastrophic illness of immediate family members can be presented to the Superintendent and/or the Board of Education for approval. (1990) 11. Consideration for use of the sick leave bank for catastrophic illness of a first year certified employee can be presented to the superintendent and/or the Board of Education for approval. (2018) 12. A letter from the employee’s physician shall be submitted at the time the employee returns to work verifying permission to return to work. (1997) 13. At any time the sick bank falls below 50 days during the school year, members of the sick bank will be assessed a day during the school term. (2005) 14. Sick bank may be used for maternity purposes only when there are unusual complications stemming from the pregnancy. A doctor’s note will be required stating that the mother requires additional days for her physical/mental health. (2005) 15. When a member of the sick bank has depleted his/her sick days and the member needs to contribute a sick bank day to the bank during the school term because it has fallen below 50 days, that member may receive a gift of a sick day from a fellow employee. (2005) 16. The sick bank for the certified staff and the sick bank for the support staff are one combined bank. (2005) 17. When a tenured employee retires/resigns from the district, that employee’s unused sick days will be added to the district sick bank. (2006) 18. A person will not earn additional sick leave while receiving be able to withdraw days from the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation bank unless he/she is a contributing member of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 bank. (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.2018)

Sick Leave Bank. When in ● This sick leave bank is a voluntary program for licensed personnel. Membership to the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two bank is permissible only upon initial employment. ● Each participant will donate one (21) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all day of his/her accumulated sick leave for per year to the remainder sick leave bank until the reserve has accumulated to three hundred (300) days. After the bank has accumulated three hundred (300) days, only new participants will be required to donate one (1) day to the bank. Under no condition will the bank accumulate to more than five hundred (500) days. ● The committee will, prior to the end of the school year due year, determine the need for the ensuing year. Should the sick leave bank reserve become less than one hundred fifty (150) days, the committee will review the need in the spring to catastrophic illness or injury determine the means for rebuilding the reserve and make recommendations to the Superintendent. ● Any participating member may draw upon this reserve by submitting an application online. A copy of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences application will be sent to the mother, Superintendent and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated Association sick leaveleave bank chairperson. The Association sick leave committee shall establish an internal policy review the request to administer such determine approval. In the event the member is unable to make the request, the sick leave committee will have the authority to act accordingly. ● Action on a transfermember's request will be determined by the current sick leave bank committee or a committee composed of at least three (3) contributing members of the sick leave bank appointed by the Association president: one (1) member from the applicant's attendance center; and the Superintendent as a non-voting member. No request will be approved unless the applicant is represented either by self or his/her building representative to the committee. ● The sick leave bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Worker’s Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment. ● An initial grant shall not exceed twenty (20) days. Sick leave will be granted for a maximum of ten (10) days for maternity purposes if needed. If another request is needed, the committee reserves the right to request documentation for further determination. ● The initial request granted will dictate the time frame for re-evaluation and re-application. ● The Association sick leave chairperson shall notify the treasurer applicant on the behalf of the Boardcommittee, in writing, regarding the action on the request. ● The days donated by each member of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement sick leave bank will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations subtracted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of his/her own accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to personal illness/disability or serious illness in the judgment immediate family (immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1). The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up total of two hundred fifty (2250) ▇▇▇▇ or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Use of bank days by participants shall be limited to the school year in which the personal illness/disability or the serious illness in the immediate family began. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a committee of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed membersby WEA, two (2) Board classified employees, appointed membersby that group, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, (2) administrators appointed by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association committee shall establish an internal policy guidelines to administer such a transfergovern its decision-making process regarding the granting or denial of requests for withdrawals from the bank. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of initial decision on the number of days granted or denied from the sick leave bank. Upon partial or full denial of a request for withdrawal of sick leave days, the employee may appeal the decision of the business manager to the sick leave bank committee who will then make the final decision on the appeal. The business manager and committee shall insure that withdrawals from the bank under this policy are made available to those applicants who have not abused sick leave, and provide that such withdrawal is made for prolonged illness or disability caused by a catastrophic accident. The committee guidelines shall provide a basis for insuring that withdrawals from the bank under this policy is made available only to those applicants who have not abused sick leave, and provide that such withdrawal is made for prolonged illness or disability caused by catastrophic accident. 5. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to the business office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician as to the specific number of days the member will be required to be deducted, from whom, and absent for that specific personal illness/disability or that of the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the daysimmediate family members serious illness or disability. The appropriateness business office will forward the request to the committee for a decision. 6. The maximum of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with sick leave days which the affected member. These additional limitations will apply committee may provide to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortya participant is thirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate annually. Such additional sick leave days. b. Donations days shall not be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per the recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of ’s future accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom ; however, each participant who has received assistance from the days are given sick leave bank must personally have reestablish participation for the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit 7. When a Member of the Bargaining Unit is retiring at the end of the school year, the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation may donate up to fifty (50) days of unused sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in 22.9.1 Each school year during a window period beginning October 1 and ending October 31, teachers/administrators shall be entitled to make a contribution to the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due bank. A form to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units bank days is included as Exhibit V. A minimum of one (1) day, but no more than five day must be donated by any teacher/administrator electing to participate. A donation of one (51) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days day of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional produce one (1) day in the sick leave while receiving bank, available for use by eligible teachers/administrators. Once a teacher/administrator has joined the donated sick leave daysbank, he/she is considered a member and does not need to make an annual contribution of days to enroll. Information regarding the sick leave bank and enrollment forms shall be made available at new teacher orientation. Once a teacher/administrator contributes days to the bank, those days are no longer available for use by the contributing teacher/administrator. In order to be eligible to make a contribution, the teacher/administrator must have at least ten (10) accumulated sick days to her/his credit. On an annual basis during the month of August, the NOEA president and Superintendent or designee shall receive a report from the treasurer which sets forth the number of days remaining in the bank. h. 22.9.2 A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave bank committee, composed of two teachers appointed by the President of the Association and two administrators appointed by the Superintendent, shall be responsible for the administration of the sick leave bank. A teacher/administrator who applies to another bargaining unit member shall not count as be considered for sick leave bank days must have exhausted all paid leave before receiving days from the bank. Before approving sick leave bank eligibility, the committee will examine past use of sick leave by the teacher/administrator. The committee’s determination as to teacher/administratoreligibilityto receive sick bank days shall be final. 22.9.3 A teacher/administrator may apply for the sick leave bank days for reason of personal catastrophic, serious, debilitating, or life threatening illness/injury or catastrophic, serious, debilitating, or life threatening illness/injury or 2.4.1. For purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentsick leave bank, the term “immediate family” shall be defined in accordance with provisions of Article 22. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by 2.4.1. Once a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration teacher/administrator is determined eligible for receipt of sick leave transfer bank days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days withdrawals in units of up to a maximum of 180 thirty (one-hundred eighty30) days, with the teacher/administrator eligible to reapply for receipt of additional days. Unused days shall be returned to the sick leave bank. The committee’s decision on approving or denying the application again will be deemed final. 22.9.4 If the committee believes that the sick leave b ank is or will be depleted, the committee may, regardless of the contribution window set forth above, reopen the sick leave bank for contributions. Such reopening for contributions will be for a period of thirty (30) calendar days.

Sick Leave Bank. When Under this agreement, licensed staff covered by this contract may voluntarily become members of the NCCTA sick leave bank by contributing one (1) sick leave day upon joining the bank for the establishment and operation of the bank. Additional days needed to operate the sick bank within the terms explained in the judgment Master Contract will be assessed alphabetically from the sick bank membership at a rate of a one day per member per assessment. This bank is to assist employees who have long term illness and disabilities and who have exhausted their sick leave accumulations. 1. All bargaining unit member's physician members are eligible to join the sick bank upon date of hire. Only individuals who have contributed to the bank are eligible for benefits. 2. To be eligible for benefits, new employees must have joined by the end of the fall semester of the previous school year. Current employees must have joined by the end of benefits open enrollment of the previous school year. 3. Members must notify the NCCTA President and NCCTA Secretary 5 days before their sick leave runs out, to be eligible to receive days from the sick bank. The Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) will determine emergencies, such as hospitalization on a yearly committee made up case-by- case 4. The maximum cumulative number of two days which any one person can be granted from the bank during one (21) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two school year is twenty (220) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, days. The maximum cumulative number of days which any one person can be granted from the employee will exhaust all of bank during his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder period of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed employment with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than NCSD is forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations 5. Benefits from a bargaining unit the sick bank up to ten (10) days to one member may be approved by the NCCTA President and NCCTA Secretary with appropriate proof of medical need provided by the applicant for benefits, either to the NCCTA President and NCCTA Secretary, or Nye County School District. 6. Applications for benefits extending beyond the ten (10) days granted from the NCCTA President and NCCTA Secretary from the sick leave bank must be in units brought to the Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) of the School District. 7. The Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) shall consist of one (1) daySchool Board Member, but no more than five three (53) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed Administrators selected by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust Superintendent or his/her own sick designee, and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.four

Sick Leave Bank. When in 15.10.1 Under this Agreement, licensed employees covered by this Agreement may become members of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of Sick Leave Bank by voluntarily contributing two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave days for the remainder establishment and operation of the Bank. This Bank is to assist employees who have illness, disabilities, or catastrophic situations and who have exhausted their sick leave accumulation. 15.10.2 The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of one District designee and two Association designees. 15.10.3 Participation in the Sick Leave Bank: 15.10.3.1 At the beginning of each school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of year, there will be a five (5) week open enrollment period. All employees in the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences eligible to participate. Employees must notify the Association and the District Office of their wish to participate. The District Office will mail an enrollment form to the motheremployee. 15.10.4 Receiving Days from the Sick Leave Bank: 15.10.4.1 Only individuals who have contributed to the Bank are eligible for benefits. 15.10.4.2 Responsibility for determining who shall receive days from the Sick Leave Bank rests exclusively with the Sick Leave Bank Committee, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' except as referenced in 3-4 below. 15.10.4.3 The maximum accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to which any one person can be deducted, granted from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortyBank is thirty-five (4535) days as per year. If more than thirty-five (35) days are needed, the participant can apply for additional days, not to exceed a sixty (60) day total. A person may use a maximum of July 1 can donate sick leave ninety (90) days over a five (5) year period, such period to begin with the first withdrawal of days. b. Donations 15.10.4.4 The Sick Leave Bank Committee is authorized to grant withdrawals from the Bank in increments of up to fifteen (15) days per application. If application is denied, a bargaining unit member single appeal to the Sick Leave Bank Committee may be made within five (5) days of the date of denial. 15.10.4.5 A subsequent application made to the Bank for additional days for the same illness or condition is subject to Board approval. 15.10.5 Operation and Maintenance of the Sick Leave Bank: 15.10.5.1 Those employees enrolled in the Bank will automatically continue their participation from year to year unless they notify the Association in writing of their intent to withdraw from the Bank. Such withdrawal from the Bank must be occur during the enrollment period and will not result in units reinstatement of the time contributed to the Bank. 15.10.5.2 If the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank is less than forty- five (45), the District will inform the Bank membership that a special assessment of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total sick leave day per recipient, provided that member will be made to reimburse the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveBank. c. 15.10.5.3 The bargaining unit member maximum that anyone can contribute to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injurySick Leave Bank after its establishment at any one time is one (1) sick leave day. d. If 15.10.5.4 At the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular end of each school year, and only that all days in the Sick Leave Bank will be carried over to the next school year. f. 15.10.5.5 The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank pool shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to exceed a maximum of 180 200 days except for new enrollees to contribute their one (one-hundred eighty1) daysday.

Sick Leave Bank. When A. The State and the Union agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank Committee who shall be responsible to administer a Sick Leave Bank in the judgment of a each bargaining unit member's physician and covered by the Master Agreement. A separate sick leave bank may be established in a yearly committee made up particular department by mutual Agreement. B. Each Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed four members, two (2) Board of whom shall be appointed membersby the President of the Union and two (2) by the State. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish the rules and procedures to be used by employees who have contributed to the Sick Leave Bank. Each Sick Leave Bank Committee may decide, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member by majority vote, to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated permit sick leave for the remainder bank donations to be made on an as needed basis. Decisions of the school year due Sick Leave Bank Committee to grant sick leave bank days shall be by majority vote, shall be final and shall not be subject to the grievance and arbitration provisions of the contract. C. The following provisions must be included in the rules and procedures adopted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee: 1. The Committee must review the sick leave utilization of any member of the Sick Leave Bank who applies for sick leave from the bank. ▇▇▇▇ leave will not be granted to an applicant with evidence of prior sick leave abuse in his or her personnel file or attendance record. Prior utilization of sick 2. The Committee must require adequate evidence of catastrophic illness or injury injury, which is not job-related, of an employee only (not any family member). 3. The maximum amount of sick leave that the Committee may grant shall be 480 hours per employee assigned to a forty (40) hour work week and 420 hours per employee assigned to a thirty-five (35) hour work week. Hours granted shall not exceed the total hours available in the Bank. 4. Employees must make contributions to the Sick Leave Bank on January 2 of each calendar year. Any employee who does not make a contribution to the Bank shall not be eligible to apply to the Bank for any sick leave. 5. Members of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences who wish to be eligible to apply to the mother, Bank for sick leave shall contribute eight (8) hours of sick leave if assigned to a forty (40) hour work week and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated seven hours of sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy leave if assigned to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortythirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave dayshour work week. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member 6. An employee who applies to the Sick Leave Bank must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of have used all available accrued and accumulated sick leave including vacation and personal leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury7. Part-time employees may participate on a pro rated basis. d. If D. Any unused sick leave remaining in the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then Sick Leave Bank on December 31 shall not be carried forward into the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school next year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving E. If during the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for calendar year the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 Sick Leave Bank falls below three hundred fifty (one-hundred twenty350) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstanceshours, the committee Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve solicit additional days up to contributions of one additional day (8 hours or 7 hours) from those employees who made a maximum contribution on January 2 of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysthat calendar year.

Sick Leave Bank. When in 1. The District and the judgment CSEA shall jointly administer a voluntary Sick Leave Bank (SLB). The purpose of the SLB is to aid unit employees who suffer a prolonged personal illness, excluding routine Maternity Leave, and have exhausted all leave accruals during the illness. 2. The SLB shall be administered by a three (3) person Committee consisting of a bargaining unit member's physician District Representative, the CSEA Unit President, and a yearly committee made up Union member appointed by the Unit President. 3. Employees may only become members of the Sick Leave Bank during the month of September each year and shall be required to donate two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed memberssick leave days. Employees donating sick leave shall voluntarily consent to do so in writing. Sick leave donated by an employee may not be withdrawn. 4. To remain a member of the SLB an employee must donate one (1) sick leave day during the month of October of each year except as noted in 5. 5. All days in the SLB shall carry over from year to year. Each October 1st, the days in the SLB shall be evaluated. If the SLB has three hundred fifty (350) days or more, continuing members shall not be required to contribute during that year. If the SLB has fewer than three hundred fifty (350) days continuing members shall be required to donate one (1) sick leave day. In this event, new members who donated two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member days in September will not be required to chair, donate an additional day to maintain membership. 6. A unit employee may make application for SLB usage subject to all of the following conditions: (a) the employee will exhaust all has completed at least one (1) year of continuous service and has fully contributed to the bank pursuant to 4 and 5 above; (b) the employee is unable to perform the duties of his/her accumulated regular job due to non-work related illness or injury; (c) the employee has exhausted all other forms of his/her paid leave accruals which shall include sick leave, compensatory time, personal leave and vacation; (d) the employee has served a thirty (30) consecutive calendar day waiting period from the date that they most recently were excused from work for said injury/illness. The waiting period can be satisfied by any combination of paid and unpaid time off; (e) the application shall be made on a standard form prescribed and available at the District’s Central Office. The application shall include written verification of the employee’s medical condition by a physician selected and paid for by the employee. 7. The SLB Committee shall meet as soon as practicable, however, not later than 30 calendar days from receipt of request application, to review the completed application(s). The Committee shall approve or disapprove an application by majority vote. Each application shall be considered on an individual basis. Each employee shall authorize the release of his/her work attendance records to the Committee for review with their application. If requested by any committee member, the employee shall also authorize the release of his/her formal disciplinary record, if any for review. The Committee shall have the right to have a physician of its own choosing verify the employee’s condition. The cost of any verification shall be assumed by the District. The decision of the Committee shall be final and binding. The decision shall not be subject to review under the grievance procedure as outlined in Article 20 or any other legal method. 8. An employee shall be entitled to apply for a minimum of ten (10) days and up to forty (40) days or one-half (1/2) of the days available in the SLB, whichever is less. An employee may reapply for one (1) extension to receive up to forty (40) days or one-half (1/2) of the days available in the SLB, whichever is fewer subject to the approval of the Committee. An employee may make one application for use of the SLB and one reapplication for an extension in any fifty-two (52) week period subject to the time limits defined above. An employee who utilizes the SLB and its one extension, must return to work on a full-time basis for at least six (6) continuous months before qualifying to use the SLB again. 9. Employees shall be entitled to receive full pay while utilizing the SLB. The SLB may grant partial days to full-time employees when the employee is capable of working part-time and the District accepts the employee back to work on a part-time basis. An employee shall not be entitled to receive more than full pay as a result of receiving SLB days in addition to no fault insurance payments or income security payments to which they may also be entitled. If such insurance payments provide any employee with less than full pay, said employee may apply for partial sick leave days for the bank in order to receive full pay during their leave for a serious injury or illness. It is understood that an employee eligible for reimbursement of wages through insurance or other income security programs shall apply to receive said benefits, and shall be required to fully disclose the availability of such reimbursement to the SLB committee with their application for SLB days. 10. When an employee is utilizing time from the SLB, said employee shall cease to accrue leave benefits. The employee shall only have access to sick leave bank days. An employee utilizing SLB days shall not have their anniversary date adjusted upon their return, and shall receive any personal leave or vacation leave that they may have accrued during their leave upon their return. Additional sick leave days shall not accrue when an employee is using sick leave bank days. Any SLB days approved for use by the employee but not used shall be returned to the SLB. 11. Upon separation from District employment, a member employee shall forfeit all sick leave days previously contributed to the SLB. However, such days shall remain in the SLB for future use by unit employees. In addition, when a Bargaining Unit member terminates employment for any reason other than retirement, up to ten (10) days of unused and unpaid sick leave days shall be transferred to the SLB. However, when there are at least 350 days in the SLB, the District shall cease to credit said unused and unpaid sick leave days from Bargaining Unit members who left District employment for any reason other than retirement. Retiring employees may donate a maximum of thirty (30) days to the sick leave bank at time of retirement, regardless of sick leave bank balance. The District will incorporate a retiree sick leave donation form into its processing out package. 12. If the SLB reaches zero days in any school year then the SLB will not be operational for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee A Committee will be formed made up of two three (23) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two administrators chosen by the District and three (23) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, employees chosen by the Support Staff Union. The Committee will be the governing board of the Sick Leave Bank. A. Each employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated donate a sick leave for day to the remainder bank no later than the first day of the second school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberemployment however, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences only employees who have contributed to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice leave bank shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer eligible to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate receive sick leave bank days. b. Donations from B. At the beginning of 2012-2013 school year, each currently employed support staff employee will donate a bargaining unit member day. A support staff employee who has more than 190 days may make a voluntary one- time donation of up to ten (10) days to the bank. C. An eligible employee who has exhausted all of the employee’s accumulated sick, personal and vacation leave may request to use Sick Leave Bank days for personal illness which constitutes a catastrophic disability as defined in number 5 below and as determined by a majority of the Committee. All requests for Sick Leave Bank use must be accompanied by medical verification in units the form requested by the Committee. A first or second year employee is eligible to request up to 10 days from the Bank. Following the completion of one (1) daytwo years of continuous service, but no more than all other employees may request to use up to 20 total days every five (5) days total per recipient, provided that years from the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveSick Leave Bank during their employment in the District. c. D. A personal illness, disability, or hospitalization shall be deemed "catastrophic" if it is a life-threatening or extraordinary medical condition. Generally, a catastrophic medical condition must be both long- term in nature and require extensive recuperation periods. E. Except for new hires, no days will be collected until the Bank has less than fifty (50) days. The bargaining unit member Committee may determine when it is appropriate to whom collect days again. F. If the Bank dissolves, days are given must personally will be returned to employees who have the contributed on a pro-rata basis. G. Days will also be available for catastrophic illness or injuryin the immediate family subject to Board of Education approval. d. If H. No bargaining Unit Member may access the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave District Sick Leave Bank to acquire sick days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave exchange for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.Paid Family Leave Benefits provided under Article B.

Sick Leave Bank. When in On September 1 of each year of the judgment of contract, all employees shall be eligible to voluntarily contribute a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up maximum of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersof their accumulated sick days to a sick leave bank. Once an employee elects to join the bank and thereby makes an initial contribution, such employee shall automatically continue as a member of the bank and such two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member days each year sick leave contribution shall be made to chair, the bank on September 1 of each year until the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for signifies in writing to Human Resources their desire to cease contributions into the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavebank. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the maximum number of days to in the bank shall be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred five hundred (500) days. Included It is understood and agreed that sick leave days deposited into the bank become the sole and exclusive property of the bank. No employee may claim entitlement to such days at the time of retirement, termination, etc. It is further understood that this Section will in no way affect the annual payout for unused sick days (Section 21.4). As soon as possible after October 1, but no later than January 1 of each year, an updated list of active sick leave bank members and total number of days in the notice bank shall be a signed statement by sent to each member of the bargaining unit member involved authorizing sick leave bank. Employees requesting the Board treasurer use of the bank must be on extended leave due to transfer personal illness and must use all of their own sick leave and personal days before drawing from the bank. Employees donating two days may request up to sixty (60) days. Employees donating one day may request up to thirty (30) days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations bank year will run from a bargaining unit member must be in units September 1 to August 31. A waiting period of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) working days total per recipientmust pass following the use of all the employee’s earned days and the beginning of the sick leave bank. Before the start of the sick leave bank, provided an attending physician must certify that the donor not go below forty-individual is unable to perform regular duties. Application to use days from the bank may be made on the appropriate form, along with the doctor’s statement, and forwarded to Human Resources. Within five (455) working days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation receipt of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstancesan application, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum Bank Committee, composed of 180 two (one-hundred eighty2) daysmembers of the Service Association and Human Resources, shall act upon each application. A meeting of the Committee shall take place should there be questions regarding an approval. The decision of the Committee shall be final and binding.

Sick Leave Bank. When 13.2.1 The Board agrees to establish a sick leave bank to cover teachers in the judgment event of a bargaining unit member's physician catastrophic illness or disability. A catastrophic illness or disability is a severe condition or combination of conditions affecting the mental or physical health of the employee. Such conditions typically require in-patient hospitalization or are expected to result in disability or death. Such conditions require the services of a licensed practitioner for a prolonged period of time and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, that would force the employee to exhaust all leave time earned by that employee and to be placed in an unpaid leave status. 13.2.2 The Sick Bank rotation list is a list of members of the sick bank and was established in October 2006. The list of members was placed in alphabetical order by date of hire. The sick bank rotation list shall consist of names placed in the order employees first join the bank. New enrollees, after contributing one day, are added to the bottom of the list. New enrollees who join the bank on the same day shall be placed on the list in alphabetical order. 13.2.3 To join the sick leave bank, a teacher must sign a Sick Bank Membership Form by September 15th of each year and shall donate one (1) day from the twelve (12) days he/she receives in a one-year period to be deposited in said bank, such day to be deducted from the teacher's annual sick leave in the second pay period in October. The Administrative Committee will exhaust provide the SAU office with a copy of all membership forms as well as the current rotation list by October 1st. 13.2.4 A member becomes eligible to request benefits from the sick leave bank if suffering from a catastrophic illness or disability provided he/she has exhausted all of his/her accumulated accrued sick leave. Said member may request up to twenty-five (25) days per school year. 13.2.5 The request to use the sick leave bank shall be submitted in writing with supportive medical documentation to the Administrative Committee. The committee will determine whether or not, in its judgment, the teacher qualifies to use the sick leave bank. If the Administrative Committee has determined that the teacher qualifies to use the sick bank, it will submit its decision to the Superintendent who will release the days for use by the remainder teacher. The decision of the Administrative Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the grievance procedures contained in Article VII. 13.2.6 When the days are drawn on the Sick Bank, the sick days held in reserve shall be used to restore the Sick Bank to its maximum of 175 days. If the bank falls below the maximum accumulation, participants must contribute only one of their sick days in the second pay period in October. Those days will be held to replenish the Sick Bank at the close of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury in June, beginning with the top of the bargaining unit memberrotation list, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences until the Sick Bank is restored to the mother, and additional days are still needed, maximum allowed. Those contributing individuals will then he/she may request through be placed at the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer bottom of the Board, in writing, rotation list. An accounting of the number of sick bank accrued and used days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with sent to the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less SAU office no later than forty-five (45) days as June 1st of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school each year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The College will permit employees to transfer accrued but unused sick leave hours to the Association’s Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be administered by the Association. 1. When in the judgment of an employee has exhausted their own accrued sick leave, has a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed memberssignificant medical condition, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairhas been approved for FMLA or OFLA, the employee Association will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due work collaboratively with Human Resources to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, employee of the number of days sick leave hours to be deductedtransferred from the Sick Leave Bank. 2. The approved employee sick leave donation form, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement provided by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing Association, is submitted to Human Resources and must contain the Board treasurer name of the employee wishing to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave dayshours, the number of hours being donated and the employee’s signature consenting to such transfer. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no 3. No more than five forty (40) hours may be donated by any one employee per fiscal year. 4. After the hours are transferred, any hours used will be paid at the receiving employee’s rate at the time of the use of such hours. 5) days total per recipient. Prior to receiving any donated sick leave, provided that the donor employee must have exhausted all of their sick leave, vacation and compensatory time. However, the employee is not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated required to have used their personal business/emergency leave or their floating holiday prior to receiving donated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom 6. No employee may receive more than five hundred (500) hours of donated sick time during their employment. In addition, no employee may receive more hours than needed, as determined by the days are given must personally have Association, for the catastrophic illness or injuryabsences caused by the significant medical condition. d. If 7. At the bargaining unit member has applied conclusion of a receiving employee’s FMLA or OFLA period, any unused hours will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. This process will be managed by the Association’s Sick Leave Chairperson. The Chairperson shall provide to Human Resources prior to the 15th of each month a list of individuals receiving sick time and the specific number of hours to be utilized for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effecteach individual. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. 8. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member College shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysreceiving employee. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in Upon initiation of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury bank, each employee of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' will contribute one months’ accumulated sick leaveleave based on the employee’s FTE as of September first to establish the sick leave bank. At the beginning of each year in which the bank has fallen below thirty days, each employee will contribute another month’s accumulated sick leave based on the employee’s FTE. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days contributed to the employee shall not exceed twenty days based upon the employee’s FTE in any contract year. To be deductedeligible for sick leave withdrawal, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall following criteria must be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the daysmet: 1. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member employee must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave, vacation and paid personal leave firstleave. g. 2. The bargaining unit member who is using donated employee or his/her representative must complete an application and submit it to the Human Resources office for consideration. 3. An advisory committee including the President of BCEA, the Supervisor of the Employee and the Director of Human Resources will advise the Superintendent relative to use of days from the sick leave bank. The committee will not earn additional consider any application where the employee is not under the continuing care of a physician (this program is intended for extremely serious catastrophic illnesses/injuries). The employee shall not have habitually abused the sick leave while receiving benefit in the donated past. The number of days contributed to the employee shall not exceed twenty days based upon the employee’s FTE in any contract year. Sick leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation bank withdrawals terminate when Workers’ Compensation coverage begins or at the end of the contract year whichever comes first. Each year an employee uses the sick leave bank he/she must pay back the number of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) bank days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up used to a maximum of 180 ten days. These days (one-hundred eightypay back days) will accumulate each time the bank is used and will be paid back at the rate of two days per year until borrowed days have been repaid. If an employee separates from the district before the full repayment of these sick days, the remaining unrepaid days will be deducted from that employee’s accumulated sick leave days and restored to the bank insofar as such days are available.

Sick Leave Bank. When in 14.10.1 Under this Agreement, licensed employees covered by this Agreement may become members of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of Sick Leave Bank by voluntarily contributing two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave days for the remainder establishment and operation of the Bank. This Bank is to assist employees who have illness, disabilities, or catastrophic situations and who have exhausted their sick leave accumulation. 14.10.2 The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of one District designee and two Association designees. 14.10.3 Participation in the Sick Leave Bank: 14.10.3.1 At the beginning of each school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of year, there will be a five (5) week open enrollment period. All employees in the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences eligible to participate. Employees must notify the Association and the District Office of their wish to participate. The District Office will mail an enrollment form to the motheremployee. 14.10.4 Receiving Days from the Sick Leave Bank: 14.10.4.1 Only individuals who have contributed to the Bank are eligible for benefits. 14.10.4.2 Responsibility for determining who shall receive days from the Sick Leave Bank rests exclusively with the Sick Leave Bank Committee, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' except as referenced in 3-4 below. 14.10.4.3 The maximum accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to which any one person can be deducted, granted from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortyBank is thirty-five (4535) days as per year. If more than thirty-five (35) days are needed, the participant can apply for additional days, not to exceed a sixty (60) day total. A person may use a maximum of July 1 can donate sick leave ninety (90) days over a five (5) year period, such period to begin with the first withdrawal of days. b. Donations 14.10.4.4 The Sick Leave Bank Committee is authorized to grant withdrawals from the Bank in increments of up to fifteen (15) days per application. If application is denied, a bargaining unit member single appeal to the Sick Leave Bank Committee may be made within five (5) days of the date of denial. 14.10.4.5 A subsequent application made to the Bank for additional days for the same illness or condition is subject to Board approval. 14.10.5 Operation and Maintenance of the Sick Leave Bank: 14.10.5.1 Those employees enrolled in the Bank will automatically continue their participation from year to year unless they notify the Association in writing of their intent to withdraw from the Bank. Such withdrawal from the Bank must be occur during the enrollment period and will not result in units reinstatement of the time contributed to the Bank. 14.10.5.2 If the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank is less than forty- five (45), the District will inform the Bank membership that a special assessment of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total sick leave day per recipient, provided that member will be made to reimburse the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveBank. c. 14.10.5.3 The bargaining unit member maximum that anyone can contribute to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injurySick Leave Bank after its establishment at any one time is one (1) sick leave day. d. If 14.10.5.4 At the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular end of each school year, and only that all days in the Sick Leave Bank will be carried over to the next school year. f. 14.10.5.5 The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank pool shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to exceed a maximum of 180 200 days except for new enrollees to contribute their one (one-hundred eighty1) daysday.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to provide sick leave for those participating members who have a prolonged, catastrophic or long term illness and/or injury and who have exhausted all their available personal sick leave. This benefit would not be available in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician worker’s compensation injury matter. 2. Effective July 1, 2002 all full time and part time (.5 time or more) professionals, except those filling a yearly committee made up of leave position, and those already enrolled shall contribute two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersdays on the effective date of employment. Such days become permanently part of the sick leave bank and cannot be withdrawn. 3. Future contributions will be required when the number of days in the bank is diminished to a number that equals the number of professional employees covered by this agreement. At that time, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the rate of additional contributions not to exceed two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member days per participant per year. 4. Eligibility to chair, draw from the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice bank shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer limited to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraphthose participating members who: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated Have exhausted their own personal sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic b. Provide medical evidence of prolonged, catastrophic, or long term illness or injuryinjury acceptable to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. d. If c. Make application to the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then Sick Leave Bank Committee on the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effectappropriate form. e. No more days can 5. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be given than needed by composed of the bargaining unit member to serve out President of the regular school yearProfessionals Association, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust or his/her own designee, and the Superintendent of Schools, or his/her designee. The Committee may grant up to 30 sick and personal leave firstdays per application. All decisions to accept or reject an application shall be non-grievable. g. 6. If agreement on a grant is not achieved by the committee of two, or an applicant is dissatisfied with the decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, an appeal can be made by the applicant to a review board composed of two members appointed by the Superintendent of Schools, two members appointed by the President of the Teachers Association, and one additional member acceptable to both the Superintendent and the Teachers Association President. The bargaining unit member decision of the review board shall be final, binding, and non-grievable. 7. The maximum number of days available to each participant who meets the criteria in Section 5 is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave limited to 360 days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of 8. The District will contribute one sick leave to another bargaining unit day per member shall not count as use of joining the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association bank. This day will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating be added to the Association's administration bank at the time of sick leave transfer daysthe member’s initial contribution. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to personal illness/disability or serious illness in the judgment immediate family (immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1). The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and total of two hundred fifty (250) or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Use of bank days by participants shall be limited to the school year in which the personal illness/disability or the serious illness in the immediate family began. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a yearly committee made up of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed by WEA; two (2) ▇▇▇▇ classified employees, appointed members, by the classified staff; and two (2) Board administrators appointed members, by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, initial evaluation of the number of days to be deducted, available from whomthe sick leave bank, and the person receiving committee will grant or deny the transferred request. Upon partial or full denial of a request for withdrawal of sick leave days, the employee may appeal the decision of the committee to the Superintendent who will then make the final decision on the appeal. Included The committee shall insure that withdrawals from the bank under this policy are for maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, prolonged illness/disability, bereavement, or serious illness in the notice immediate family. x Maternity/paternity/adoptive paid leave shall be limited to no more than six (6) weeks for normal vaginal delivery and eight (8) weeks for caesarean delivery per family, including the use of the Member of the Bargaining Unit’s accumulated sick leave prior to receiving days from the sick leave bank. Checkups and follow up appointments after the 8-week period will not be granted from the sick leave bank unless they fall under one of the other requirements for use of the bank. x Prolonged illness/disability shall mean an illness that a signed statement by physician would certify as being necessary to be absent from work or hospitalized. This would also cover a recurring treatment (weekly or monthly appointment) for an existing illness/disability. x The amount of time granted for bereavement shall be the bargaining unit member involved authorizing decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. x Serious illness shall mean any illness that a physician would certify as being necessary for the Member of the Bargaining Unit to be in attendance with family members. The Superintendent reserves the right to request verification of the need for absence under provisions of this paragraph. x Immediate family shall be defined as mother, father, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephew, ▇▇▇▇▇, spouse, child, step child or step parent, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children, brother, sister, in-laws of any of the above, or death other than in the immediate family where there has been close association. x The amount of time granted for each funeral shall be the decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. The Board of Education reserves the right to overrule the sick leave bank committee if the Board treasurer of Education discovers that the committee’s action violates federal or state law. 5. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to transfer the daysbusiness office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician as to the specific number of days the member will be required to be absent for that specific personal illness/disability or that of the immediate family members serious illness or disability. The appropriateness business office will forward the request to the committee for a decision. 6. The maximum of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with sick leave days which the affected member. These additional limitations will apply committee may provide to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortya participant is thirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate annually. Such additional sick leave days. b. Donations days shall not be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per the recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of ’s future accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom ; however, each participant who has received assistance from the days are given sick leave bank must personally have reestablish participation for the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit 7. When a Member of the Bargaining Unit is retiring at the end of the school year, the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation may donate up to fifty (50) days of unused sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank will be established. When employees are newly hired, they will be given the option to join the sick leave bank by donating one (1) of their sick days to the bank. Current employees who are not yet members may join by donating one (1) sick day to the bank during open enrollment, September 1 to November 1 of each year. Only employees who donate the aforementioned sick leave to the sick leave bank and have completed their probationary period, shall be eligible to receive sick leave bank leave. Such eligible employees shall be able to request sick leave bank utilization after they have expended all forms of paid leave they have accrued (this includes leave available through the Oregon Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (PFMLI)). For purposes of sick leave bank usage only, “sick leave” may include any accrued leave as determined by the joint committee mentioned in this section. The bank is required to have one (1) day per member or four hundred and fifty (450) hours, whichever is greater. Should the balance fall below that figure, members will be asked to contribute an additional day to maintain their membership. (“Day” is defined for the purposes of this paragraph as the length of the average workday for that employee.) The sick leave bank shall be overseen and administered by a joint committee that includes classified employees named by the Association and the Director of Human Resources. The bank may be used only for the participant’s personal illness as defined under FMLA/OFLA as a “serious health condition” or for the serious health condition of an immediate family member. For the purpose of access to the sick leave bank, immediate family members are defined as the spouse/domestic partner, child or stepchild, parent or step-parent, or sibling or step-sibling of the employee. Participants with less than two (2) years of service to the District and two (2) years participation in the judgment sick leave bank shall be limited to a maximum of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up fifteen (15) days of leave in any school year. After the completion of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, years of service to the District and/or two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, years participation in the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberbank, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice participants shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up limited to a maximum of 180 thirty (one-30) days of leave in any school year. The sick leave bank may expend up to one thousand two hundred eighty(1,200) dayshours of donated leave in any school year. Approval or denial of any request for leave from the sick leave bank shall be within the sole authority of the joint committee mentioned herein according to whatever rules or criteria for usage they may agree upon. The denial of a request for paid leave from the sick leave bank is not subject to the grievance procedure in this Agreement.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The Employer and Association will cooperate in the judgment establishment of a bargaining unit membersick leave bank. All employed Association Employees covered by this Agreement shall participate. 2. Two (2) days of each Employee's physician sick leave will be deposited in the sick leave bank each year until it is built up to a maximum of one hundred (100) days. No more days will be added to this maximum until the sick leave bank is depleted to forty (40) days. The sick leave bank will then be built up again to one hundred (100) days and the process repeated. 3. Additions will be made to the sick leave bank at the beginning of each work year according to the above limitations. If the sick leave bank is depleted during a yearly committee made fiscal year, Association Employees will deposit days to build it up to one hundred (100) days. 4. To be eligible to draw upon the sick bank, the employee shall be employed a minimum of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersyears with Romeo Community Schools. The first twenty (20) work days of an employee’s illness or disability will not be covered by the sick leave bank, but must be covered by the Employee's own accumulated sick leave of absence without pay. Employees shall be required to contribute two (2) Board appointed members, sick days in each of their first two (2) years of employment with Romeo Community Schools towards the sick bank and then again as necessary. 5. Employees withdrawing sick leave days from the sick leave bank will not be required to replace these days except as a mutually agreed upon fifth regular contributing member of the sick leave bank. 6. The President of the Association will meet with the Employee Services Director to certify all transactions of the sick leave bank as well as the accuracy of additions and deductions from the sick leave bank. 7. The Association recognizes the responsibility of each member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated use sick leave for the remainder its intended purpose. 8. A maximum of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate during one school year may be drawn by one individual from the sick leave daysbank. In order to access days from the sick bank, an employee must submit a statement from a physician attesting to the nature of the illness and to the fact that the employee is not able to perform the responsibilities and duties of the job. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of 9. Any Employee taking no more than one (1) daysick leave day in a school year will receive one (1) bonus day the following year. An Employee taking no sick leave days in a school year will receive two (2) bonus days the following year. Such days shall accumulate up to five (5). If unused, but these days shall be placed in the individual's sick leave bank. 10. Employees who have accrued seventy-five (75) days of sick leave may convert one (1) sick leave day to one (1) bonus day each year. Employees who have accrued one hundred (100) days of sick leave may convert two (2) sick leave days to two (2) bonus days each year. Employees who have accrued one hundred twenty-five (125) days of sick leave may convert three (3) sick leave days to three (3) bonus days each year. Employees who have accrued one hundred fifty (150) days of sick leave may convert four (4) sick leave days to four (4) bonus days each year. 11. Nothing in this Article shall be construed as placing any obligation on the Employer to advance or loan additional sick leave days to the sick leave bank should all days be used up in any period or periods of its operation. 12. The district will be required to pay sick leave benefits for no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below fortysixty-five (4565) consecutive days (combined personal and sick leave bank days) for any specific illness. Any Employee covered by this sick leave provision whose illness extends beyond the provision of accumulated this Section may participate in the long-term disability insurance program if they so qualify. An individual, however, may use their personal sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as for any unrelated subsequent use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbenefits. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The Sick Leave Bank shall provide paid sick leave for employees who have exhausted their accumulated sick and personal leave and are unable to return to work. Only active members of the judgment Sick Leave Bank shall be allowed to withdraw days from the Bank. Employees may choose to participate as an active member when hired or whenever the Sick Leave Bank is opened. To become an active member of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersthe Bank, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the an employee will exhaust all donate one (1) day of his/her accumulated unused sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional Sick Leave Bank. The employee will remain an active member until asked to donate another day based on the guidelines listed below. Donated days are still non-returnable and will be recorded as a used sick day in the employee's file. All donated days will remain in the Bank until they are needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association Board shall establish an internal policy not be liable for any days transferred and shall not contribute any days to administer such a transferthe Sick Leave Bank. The Association co-presidents of CUTEA shall notify the treasurer maintain a list of the Board, in writing, of active members and the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and donated by each. When the person receiving the transferred days. Included total number of days in the notice shall be a signed statement by Bank meets or exceeds fifty (50), the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement Bank will be discussed with closed. If the affected membernumber of days drops below fifty (50), the Sick Leave Bank will be opened. These additional limitations To remain active at the time, teachers will apply be asked to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no according to the following guidelines, until the total number of days in the bank reaches at least fifty (50). 1st- All employees who have given zero (0) days. 2nd-All employees who have given one (1) day. 3rd-All employees who have given two (2) days. 4th-All employees who have given three (3) days. 5th- All employees who have given four (4) days. If an employee elects not to donate when asked, he/she will not be an active member. A committee consisting of two members of the Association and two members of the administration will govern the use of the Sick Leave Bank. No active member shall be allowed to withdraw more than five ten (510) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five during one (451) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year. To withdraw days from the Bank, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust an employee with his/her own sick designee (family member, association representative or administrator) shall make a written request to the committee. The request should state the number of days needed and personal leave first. g. include a physician's written statement specifying the reason for the employee's inability to return to work. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank shall not count as use of sick leave be used for the purposes of calculating the nonshort-use incentive paymenttermed illness or maternity leave. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Board and Association agree that for the duration of this Agreement the sick leave bank for teachers shall be continued. The Board shall annually contribute sufficient days to the bank so that its balance at the beginning of each school year is equal to the number of teachers (FTE) in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersunit. Any teacher who has been employed by the district for one full year shall be entitled to draw from the bank, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust provided that: 1. The teacher has used all of his/her accumulated sick leave for leave. 2. The teacher is personally ill, or a doctor certifies that the remainder teacher’s attendance is necessary during the illness of a member of the immediate family as defined in the School Code of Illinois. 3. The teacher submits a doctor’s certificate substantiating the need. If a teacher returns to work after five (5) or more consecutive days of illness covered at least in part by the sick leave bank, and then has further absences during the same school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences related to the mothersame condition, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through these absences will also be covered by the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveleave bank. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice A teacher shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application eligible for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) dayday of sick leave bank coverage for each day of accumulated sick leave at the time the teacher first becomes ill or a doctor’s certificate substantiating the need to attend a family member is first submitted. In any event, but no more than a minimum of twenty (20) days and a maximum of sixty (60) days may be used by any full-time teacher for any illness. Such days of absence need not be contiguous. Sick leave benefits for part-time teachers will be pro-rated accordingly. A committee will be established to act as the governing body for the administration of the sick leave bank. The committee shall consist of three (3) teachers named by the Association and two (2) administrators named by the Superintendent. Any teacher may appeal questions relating to application or interpretation of these guidelines to the Sick Leave Bank committee. Such appeal should be in writing to the committee within thirty (30) days of the occurrence giving rise to the question. The committee shall, within five (5) days, meet with such teacher to discuss the question and, within five (5) days total per recipientthereafter, provided issue to the teacher a written determination on the question. All records regarding the use of the sick leave bank shall be accessible to the committee. The Sick Bank Committee will establish guidelines that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit allow a certified staff member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust donate his/her own sick and personal leave firstdays in hardship cases. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Committee composed of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder three members of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of Association appointed by the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveAssociation President. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice District Personnel Administrator or her/his designee shall be a signed statement non-voting, ex-officio member of the Committee, and must be invited to all Committee meetings. Written criteria for the use of sick leave bank days shall be established by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing Committee and approved annually by the Executive Board treasurer of the Association. If the need to transfer change the dayswritten criteria should arise, the Executive Board of the Association must approve those changes. The appropriateness A copy of an application for disability retirement the approved written criteria will be discussed with sent to the affected Superintendent’s Office. At the start of each school year, the Committee shall furnish a written report of Sick Bank use for the previous year to both the Association Executive Board and School Board. Each staff member wishing to be covered shall agree in writing to donate one (1) day from the 12.5 days allowed in a one year period under Section 6.1.1 to be deposited in said bank, such day to be deducted from the staff member’s leave time in May of each school year. These additional limitations However, once the sick bank reaches its maximum number of days, sick time will apply be taken from each bu member on a prorated basis up to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day. The Committee shall inform the Superintendent in writing on forms provided by the District of those members wishing to participate by October 1st. Once enrolled in the sick bank, but no participation will automatically continue for successive years until employment is terminated or a letter of withdrawal is received by the Superintendent’s Office. Enrollment in the Bank shall not be modified after October 1st of each contract year. The number of available days in the sick leave bank shall not exceed three times the number of members in the bargaining unit. A Sick Bank participant with 15-19 years of service in the Merrimack Valley School District may apply to the Bank whenever a long-term illness will use more than five (5) 60% of their accrued sick days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving time is needed. A Sick Bank participant with 20 or more years of service in the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation Merrimack Valley School District may apply to the Bank whenever a long-term illness will use more than 50% of their accrued sick days and additional sick time is needed. All requests to the Committee must be in writing and must be submitted no later than fifteen (15) days after the first requested date(s). Such requests shall be considered at a duly called meeting of the Committee and approved requests shall be signed by a quorum of the voting members of the Committee. Approved requests must be presented in writing to the Superintendent no later than fifteen (15) days after the requested date(s). The sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall bank does not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentgenerally cover maternity leaves. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to prolonged illness or catastrophic accident. The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the judgment sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up total of two hundred fifty (2250) ▇▇▇▇ or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a committee of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed membersby WEA, two (2) Board classified employees, appointed membersby that group, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, (1) administrator appointed by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association committee shall establish an internal policy guidelines to administer such a transfergovern its decision-making process regarding the granting or denial of requests for withdrawals from the bank. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of initial decision on the number of days granted or denied from the sick leave bank. Upon partial or full denial of a request for withdrawal of sick leave days, the employee may appeal the decision of the business manager to be deducted, the sick leave bank committee who will then make the final decision on the appeal. The business manager and committee shall insure that withdrawals from whomthe bank under this policy are made available to those applicants who have not abused sick leave, and provide that such withdrawal is made for prolonged illness or disability caused by a catastrophic accident. The committee guidelines shall provide a basis for insuring that withdrawals from the person receiving bank under this policy is made available only to those applicants who have not abused sick leave, and provide that such withdrawal is made for prolonged illness or disability caused by catastrophic accident. 5. All requests for use of the transferred daysbank must be submitted in writing to the business office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician. Included in The business office will forward the notice request to the committee for a decision. 6. Use of the bank days by participants shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer limited to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortyin which the illness or disability causing the long-term absence from regularly assigned duties began. Each participant may draw from the sick leave bank for his/her own personal illness or disability or for a serious illness in the immediate family. Immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1 (Sick Leave). 7. The maximum of sick leave days which the committee may provide to a participant is thirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate annually. Such additional sick leave days. b. Donations days shall not be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per the recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of ’s future accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom ; however, each participant who has received assistance from the days are given sick leave bank must personally have reestablish participation for the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit 8. When a Member of the Bargaining Unit is retiring at the end of the school year, the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation may donate up to fifty (50) days of unused sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by 9. As a bargaining unit member against the Board relating form of recognition for contribution to the Association's administration District, employees separating or retiring after at least ten years of sick leave transfer dayscontinuous employment in the District shall receive a severance allowance based on the following schedule: Years of Employment Accumulated Sick Days Daily Rate Maximum Allowance To receive the severance allowance, intention to separate from the District must be presented in writing to the Superintendent. The Member of the Bargaining Unit must complete the term of the existing contract or be released from the contract by the School Board. Members of the Bargaining Unit leaving the employment of the District with more than 12 years of service will receive a severance allowance based on the final step of the above table. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A) The State and the Union agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank Committee who shall be responsible to administer a Sick Leave Bank in each bargaining unit covered by the Master Agreement. A separate sick leave bank may be established in a particular department by mutual Agreement. B) Each Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed of six members, three (3) of whom shall be appointed by the President of the Union and three (3) by the State. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish the rules and procedures to be used by employees who have contributed to the Sick Leave Bank. Each Sick Leave Bank Committee may decide, by majority vote, to permit sick leave bank donations to be made on an as needed basis. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee to grant sick leave bank days shall be by majority vote, shall be final, and shall not be subject to the grievance and arbitration provisions of the contract. C) The following provisions must be included in the judgment rules and procedures adopted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee: 1. The Committee must review the sick leave utilization of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up any member of two (2) the Sick Leave Bank who applies for sick leave from the bank. ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member leave will not be granted to chair, the employee will exhaust all an applicant with evidence of his/her accumulated prior sick leave for the remainder abuse in his or her personnel file or attendance record. Prior utilization of the school year due to sick leave does not by itself indicate sick leave abuse. 2. The Committee must require adequate evidence of catastrophic illness or injury injury, which is not job-related, of an employee only (not any family member). 3. The maximum amount of sick leave that the Committee may grant shall be 480 hours per employee assigned to a forty (40) hour work week and 420 hours per employee assigned to a thirty-five (35) hour work week. Hours granted shall not exceed the total hours available in the Bank. 4. Employees must make contributions to the Sick Leave Bank on January 2 of each calendar year. Any employee who does not make a contribution to the Bank shall not be eligible to apply to the Bank for any sick leave. 5. Members of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences who wish to be eligible to apply to the mother, Bank for sick leave shall contribute eight (8) hours of sick leave if assigned to a forty (40) hour work week and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated seven hours of sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy leave if assigned to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortythirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave dayshour work week. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member 6. An employee who applies to the Sick Leave Bank must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of have used all available accrued and accumulated sick leave including vacation and personal leave. c. The bargaining unit member 7. All sick leave hours accrued while discharging sick leave hours granted by the sick leave bank committee must be discharged prior to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injurydischarging available sick leave bank hours. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect8. Part-time employees may participate on a pro-rated basis. e. No more days can D) Any unused sick leave remaining in the Sick Leave Bank on December 31 shall not be given than needed by carried forward into the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school next year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving E) If during the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for calendar year the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 Sick Leave Bank falls below three hundred fifty (one-hundred twenty350) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstanceshours, the committee Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve solicit additional days up to contributions of one additional day (8 hours or 7 hours) from those employees who made a maximum contribution on January 2 of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysthat calendar year.

Sick Leave Bank. When in a. The purpose of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member sick leave bank shall be to chair, the employee will extend to those licensed staff who choose to participate additional sick leave days should an illness or injury exhaust all of his/her their accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such during a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick b. Within 60 days following the ratification of this Agreement, each licensed staff member, regardless of FTE and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated not a current participant in the sick leave will not earn additional bank, may join the bank by contributing two days of their sick leave while receiving allowance to the donated bank. The sick leave days. h. bank committee may also establish one additional open enrollment period during this Agreement. A bargaining unit member's donation new licensed staff member shall be allowed to join the bank by contributing two days of their sick leave allowance, provided they elect to do so within 60 days of the date of employment. Whenever the total number of sick leave days in the bank drops below one day per member of the bank, the sick leave bank shall be replenished by assessing each member one sick leave day. All sick leave contributions and assessments to another bargaining unit the sick leave bank are irrevocable. Only licensed staff who are current members of the bank may apply for days from the bank. c. Upon depleting personal sick leave and personal/emergency leave, and after obtaining a doctor’s statement certifying a physical illness or injury rendering a member unable to perform duties listed on a member’s job description for a period of more than five work days, a member may request days from the bank. A committee composed of one representative of the administration and three representatives of the Association will act immediately on the request. The committee shall grant the request if: 1) District records show that the member has exhausted their sick leave; 2) The member is a contributing member to the sick leave bank according to 3.b above; and 3) The member has experienced an illness or disability that has prevented them from performing their job requirements for more than five days and a doctor has certified in writing this illness or disability. d. When a member has accessed the sick leave bank then has a prolonged absence for the same or other qualifying medical condition within the same school year, they should be allowed more access to the bank, up to the total of 65 days. If the request is for a new qualifying medical condition, section 3 above needs to be met before the member can access the sick leave bank. 1) If the request is approved, the committee shall notify the District Office and resulting days, including the first five days of the illness or injury, if personal sick leave was not count as use available for those days, will be charged to the bank until the member returns to work or has used 65 days from the bank. 2) The District shall keep accurate records of leave accumulated by the bank and of sick leave for used by the purposes bank. Annually, the District shall notify the Association in writing of calculating accumulated days and days charged to the non-use incentive paymentbank that year. i. The Association will defend and hold 3) Membership shall be terminated by written request of the Board harmless against claims member or by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to end of employment. Previously donated days shall remain in the Association's administration bank. Temporary licensed staff hired back by the first day of sick leave transfer daysthe following work year shall retain membership in the Sick Leave Bank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in A. Upon the judgment effective date of this agreement a bargaining unit member's physician and voluntary sick leave bank shall be established for eligible members covered by this agreement who 1. have a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed membersserious illness, and a mutually agreed upon fifth 2. have exhausted their own accumulated sick leave. B. At the beginning of each school year each eligible member to chair, of the employee will exhaust all professional staff covered by this agreement shall contribute one (1) day of his/her accumulated annual allotment of sick leave for in order to fund the remainder bank. Eligible members of the professional staff covered by Business Office by September 30th. Such notification shall be in writing. Unused sick bank days shall be carried forward from school year to school year. Employees will only contribute to the sick leave bank when the balance at the beginning of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave is below 1800 days. b. Donations C. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a sick leave bank committee consisting of four members, two designated by the Association and two by the School Committee. The function of the sick leave bank committee shall include the determination of eligibility for use of the bank and the amount of leave to be granted. All decisions will be made by the committee as a whole. Once the committee has voted, the applicant and the payroll department shall be notified in writing of the outcome within three working days. Eligibility and amount shall be governed by the following criteria: 1. adequate medical evidence of serious illness 2. prior utilization of all eligible sick leave 3. length of service in the Burlington Public Schools system. D. The initial grant of sick leave by the committee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Request for a grant from the sick leave bank shall be made in writing to the Superintendent of Schools and the President of the Burlington Educators Association. The committee will convene within ten (10) working days upon receipt of a bargaining unit member must sick leave bank request. E. Upon completion of the thirty (30) day period, the entitlement may be in units extended by the committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. F. All documents, communications and records dealing with the processing of a sick leave bank request will be filed separately from the personnel files of the applicants. All correspondence will be marked confidential. G. If the sick leave bank is exhausted it shall be replenished by an automatic contribution of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that additional day from each member of the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveprofessional staff covered by this agreement. c. H. The bargaining unit member to whom decisions of the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank Committee under this Article shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating be subject to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysparties’ grievance and arbitration procedure. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The purpose of this Article is to provide additional sick leave to those Association members who are ill and whose sick leave has been exhausted. 1. On July 1st of each school year, the School Committee will deposit in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave bank 1/2 day per member for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit membereach member employed on that date. However, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included so deposited in the notice sick leave bank on July 1 shall not be less than forty (40) days, even if said number of days exceeds the number of employees of July 1. On June 30 of each year, the balance remaining in the Sick Leave Bank will cease and a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement new bank will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days funded as of July 1 can donate the following July. In the event that the sick leave days. b. Donations from bank is exhausted in any given year, members of the unit on a bargaining unit member must be in units confidential basis may make voluntary contributions of one (1) day, but no more than up to five (5) days total from accrued time to meet emergency situations during a given year. Sick days contributed to the sick leave bank under this provision of the proceeding sentence will cease on June 30 of each year even if not used by the sick leave bank. 2. There shall be a Sick Leave Bank Committee which will be composed of: 1. Three members of the Bargaining Unit. 2. Two members appointed from central administration of the School Department one of which will be the Superintendent of Schools or designee. 3. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will decide, by a majority vote, on granting an allotment of sick days from the Sick Leave Bank using guidelines set forth below: 1. All members of the Bargaining Unit are eligible to apply for days from the bank. 2. An official application form (the form of which must be approved by the Committee and the Superintendent) must be completed. This application will include space for certification by a medical doctor. 3. The doctor may be the personal physician of the applicant. Additional medical information may be required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Superintendent has the right to require an examination by the City's Chief Medical Officer or representative. 4. Applicant must have exhausted personal sick leave before he can be allotted additional sick days from the Sick Leave Bank (as per recipientdeductible clause below). 5. The following is the number of deductible days required per years of service. YEARS DEDUCTIBLE YEARS DEDUCTIBLE 1 10 days 7 4 days 2 9 days 8 3 days 3 8 days 9 2 days 4 7 days 10 1 day 5 6 days 11 or more 0 days 6 5 days Deductible days are those days an applicant must be on unpaid leave because of sickness or injury before Sick Leave Bank days can be effective. 6. Applications can be denied by the Sick Leave Bank Committee if, provided that in its opinion, any of the donor not go below forty-five (45) days following apply: 1. Previous abuse of accumulated personal sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to personal illness/disability or serious illness in the judgment immediate family (immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1). The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and total of two hundred fifty (250) or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Use of bank days by participants shall be limited to the school year in which the personal illness/disability or the serious illness in the immediate family began. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a yearly committee made up of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed by WEA; two (2) ▇▇▇▇ classified employees, appointed members, by the classified staff; and two (2) Board administrators appointed members, by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, initial evaluation of the number of days to be deducted, available from whomthe sick leave bank, and the person receiving committee will grant or deny the transferred request. Upon partial or full denial of a request for withdrawal of sick leave days, the employee may appeal the decision of the committee to the Superintendent who will then make the final decision on the appeal. Included The committee shall insure that withdrawals from the bank under this policy are for maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, prolonged illness/disability, bereavement, or serious illness in the notice immediate family. • Maternity/paternity/adoptive paid leave shall be limited to no more than six (6) weeks for normal vaginal delivery and eight (8) weeks for caesarean delivery per family, including the use of the Member of the Bargaining Unit’s accumulated sick leave prior to receiving days from the sick leave bank. Checkups and follow up appointments after the 8-week period will not be granted from the sick leave bank unless they fall under one of the other requirements for use of the bank. • Prolonged illness/disability shall mean an illness that a signed statement by physician would certify as being necessary to be absent from work or hospitalized. This would also cover a recurring treatment (weekly or monthly appointment) for an existing illness/disability. • The amount of time granted for bereavement shall be the bargaining unit member involved authorizing decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. • Serious illness shall mean any illness that a physician would certify as being necessary for the Member of the Bargaining Unit to be in attendance with family members. The Superintendent reserves the right to request verification of the need for absence under provisions of this paragraph. • Immediate family shall be defined as mother, father, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephew, ▇▇▇▇▇, spouse, child, step child or step parent, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children, brother, sister, in-laws of any of the above, or death other than in the immediate family where there has been close association. • The amount of time granted for each funeral shall be the decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. The Board of Education reserves the right to overrule the sick leave bank committee if the Board treasurer of Education discovers that the committee’s action violates federal or state law. 5. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to transfer the daysbusiness office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician as to the specific number of days the member will be required to be absent for that specific personal illness/disability or that of the immediate family members serious illness or disability. The appropriateness business office will forward the request to the committee for a decision. 6. The maximum of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with sick leave days which the affected member. These additional limitations will apply committee may provide to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortya participant is thirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate annually. Such additional sick leave days. b. Donations days shall not be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per the recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of ’s future accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom ; however, each participant who has received assistance from the days are given sick leave bank must personally have reestablish participation for the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit 7. When a Member of the Bargaining Unit is retiring at the end of the school year, the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation may donate up to fifty (50) days of unused sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in 1. Only full-time teachers who are not eligible for the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (District’s Disability Insurance Plan, shall be eligible to draw days from the sick leave bank. 2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member . An eligible teacher may apply to chair, use sick days from the employee will exhaust Sick Bank when all of the following requirements are fulfilled: a. Once all of the teacher’s sick days have been used. Sick days drawn from the Sick Bank need not be replaced by the teacher. b. The illness exceeds fifteen (15) consecutive workdays of absence from school. W hen all accumulated sick days have been used, salary shall be withheld until letter of approval by the Union to use days from Sick Bank is received. c The teacher has made a formal request by letter to the Executive Board of the Union, which shall have the authority to administer the Sick Leave Bank. One representative of the Administration, appointed by the Superintendent, shall meet with the Executive Board of the Union when Sick Leave Bank administration is decided. 3. A teacher may draw a maximum of thirty (30) sick bank days per incident. 4. If a teacher returns to his/her accumulated sick leave for duties after a serious illness and has a relapse, the remainder fifteen (15) consecutive workdays of absence provision may be waived by the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveUnion Executive Board. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the total number of days which can be drawn in a school year by one teacher shall be thirty (30) days. 5. The Board shall continue its Disability Insurance Plan at no less than the level of coverage in effect during the 1995-96 school year, at no cost to be deductedthe individual teacher. 6. If the sick leave bank falls below thirty (30) days, from whom, the Union and the person receiving the transferred daysSchool Board or its designee 7. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 Members can donate sick days to the sick leave daysbank by submitting a letter to the Union President and the Superintendent or designee. b. Donations from 8. The District shall continue to pay all insurance premiums for each teacher who becomes eligible for Disability Insurance payments for a bargaining unit member must be in units period of one (1) daycalendar year from the beginning date of the eligibility. Such payments shall be on the same basis as for any active teacher (for example, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave90% for single coverage and 70% for dependent coverage for health insurance). c. 9. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, Board and only Union agree that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated in no case will sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave bank days be redistributed to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating staff under any circumstance except pursuant to the Association's administration provisions of sick leave transfer daysthis section. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The purpose of the judgment of a bargaining unit sick leave bank is to provide sick leave to contributors to the bank after the member's physician accumulative and a yearly committee made up anticipated sick leave have been exhausted. The sick leave bank rules and procedures will be modified and submitted to the Superintendent for approval. Until such time, current rules and procedures will remain in effect. The definition of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersthis type of sick leave shall be that leave that is granted to an employee, two (2) Board appointed memberswho through personal catastrophic illness, injury, or quarantine, is unable to perform the duties of his or her position. Sick leave from the bank may not be granted for the period of disability when monies are paid to the employee under workers' compensation law. A three-member approval committee, consisting of members selected by the Union, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, approving or denying requests, and communicating its decision to the member and to the Executive Director of Human Resources. The rules of procedure and general criteria will be developed by a mutually three (3) member rules committee appointed by the President of the Union. These rules must be approved by the President of the Union and the Superintendent before said rules take effect. Once approved, the rules will be widely distributed by the approval committee. The Executive Director of Human Resources shall verify payment of approved bank grants. Employees on active duty in AACPS for which the Union is the exclusive agent, are eligible to contribute to the sick leave bank. Contributions can be made at any time during the year. An employee may join the sick leave bank only after having accumulated two hundred (200) hours of sick leave (25 days). The initial contribution to the bank will be made at the time of joining the bank, and future contributions will be based on need as recommended by the sick leave bank committee and agreed upon fifth member to chair, by the employee Union and the Superintendent. All donations will exhaust all remain in force and cannot be returned even upon cancellation of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavemembership. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transferbank can be used on the fourth duty day of absence during the member's disability. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations three (3) day deductible will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins each disability but will be waived for relapses of the school year with less than forty-five (45) same disability. The maximum number of sick days as of July 1 that can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be granted in units of any one (1) dayfiscal year will be the remaining number of duty days a member is scheduled to work, but plus included holidays or vacation days that would normally accrue during this period. In no case will the granting of more leave from the bank cause a member to receive more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated his or her annual salary. All unused sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until in the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more bank at the end of the fiscal year shall be carried over to the next fiscal year. The Board will sponsor cost of the sick leave bank but not beyond $200,000 per year. Money expended shall be calculated as days can be given than needed by used times average daily salary for Unit III members. AFSCME shall indemnify and hold harmless the bargaining unit member Board regarding any legal claims, actions or suits relating to serve out the regular school yearAFSCME's administration, function, and only that school yearoperation of the Sick Leave Bank. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A Sick Day Bank shall be established. Each employee covered by this agreement will be given the option of participating. The decision shall be binding for the remainder of one’s time in the judgment District. Each participant may voluntarily contribute ONE of his sick days to the bank. Each employee covered by this agreement will be given ninety (90) calendar days in which to decide to join or not. This will constitute a bargaining unit member's physician pool of days upon which a participant may draw, as explained below: 1. A participant who has exhausted his days due to a protracted verifiable and a yearly committee made up catastrophic illness and/or injury of two (which is the reason for the application to this committee. Pregnancy and elective surgery are not considered "catastrophic." 2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all . The applicant must provide an accurate history of his/her accumulated sick leave day record. 3. The participant's record must show non-abuse of sick day usage, as determined by the committee. 4. The committee may or may not award the days, and may do so in not more than (45) day segments in any one school year. Reapplication is necessary for each segment. Approval of reapplication is at the remainder discretion of the school year due committee. 5. Unused sick days will be returned to catastrophic illness or injury the Sick Day Bank upon the employee's return to work. Exceptions will be handled at the discretion of the bargaining unit member, which does committee. 6. The maximum allowable sick days provided to any one employee shall not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences exceed ninety (90). If the pool diminishes to the mother, and additional point whereby it is less than 30 percent of whole days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy in relation to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days participants, participants will be asked to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement contribute one additional day (as determined by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing committee). Should a participant at any time of replenishing opt NOT to continue, such action will constitute withdrawal from the bank, losing any days thus far contributed. Any participant, once having contributed a day (or more in cases of replenishment), may in no way retrieve any days thus far contributed. The committee will be as follows: 1. Three members of the Brick Township Education Association as selected by the Brick Township Education Association. 2. The President of the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness Education or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave firstdesignee. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 9.6.1 The Board agrees to establish a sick leave bank to cover teachers starting the second consecutive year of teaching in Pittsfield in the judgment event of long-term illness. 9.6.2 Any teacher beginning the second consecutive year of employment in the district may become a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up member of the sick leave bank by contributing two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all days of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy notify the District of new membership in the sick leave bank and the number of days each individual has donated to administer the sick leave bank. 9.6.3 The Association may replenish the sick leave bank (back to 180 days) two times during the school year if the number of days left in the bank falls below the maximum of 180 days. Continuing members of the sick leave bank will contribute one (1) day each to the bank when the total number of days falls below one hundred eighty (180) days minus the number of contributing teachers. Any teacher who chooses not to contribute such days will no longer be a transfermember of the bank. No teacher may contribute more than three (3) days in any replenishment of the sick leave bank; any days contributed shall be deducted from the accumulated sick leave of the person making said contribution. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, District of the number of days each individual has donated to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving replenishment of the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations bank so that said days may be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of individual’s accumulated sick leave. c. 9.6.4 The bargaining unit sick leave bank shall be administered by a committee composed of three (3) members of the Association appointed by the President, hereinafter called the Administrative Committee. Each member shall serve for one (1) year and until a successor shall be appointed. The Administrative Committee shall meet as needed. A 9.6.5 A member shall become eligible to request extended benefits from the sick leave bank after an incapacitating illness or disability provided the member has exhausted all accrued sick leave. Upon presentation of satisfactory medical evidence of disability or illness to the Administrative Committee and approval by said Committee, the Committee shall forward its recommendation to the Superintendent. If the Administrative Committee does not approve a request, appeal may be made to a committee comprised of the Administrative committee, EAP Executive Board, and the Superintendent. If the appeal is denied, then no days will be granted from the sick leave bank. 9.6.6 Upon recommendation of the Superintendent and approval of the Board, a member may be granted up to twenty-five (25) days in addition to the regular sick leave not to be charged to the sick leave bank provided, however, that under extenuating circumstances additional days may be requested and processed as heretofore set forth. During such additional sick leave, under the provisions of this article, any and all benefits normally provided a teacher shall continue. 9.6.7 Guidelines for application by a member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated sick leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can bank shall be given than needed determined by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, Administrative Committee and only that school yearpublished by said Committee. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in A. All members of the judgment of a bargaining unit on active duty in Wicomico County are eligible to contribute to a sick leave bank. Contributors will be permitted to apply for leave from the bank to cover regularly scheduled duty days for periods of incapacitating personal illness, injury, or quarantine. B. The contribution on the appropriate form will be authorized by the member and continued from year to year until canceled in writing by the member's physician . Cancellation, on the proper form, may be elected at any time, and a yearly committee made up the member shall not be eligible to use the bank as of two (2) the effective cancellation date. ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two leave properly authorized for contribution to the bank will not be returned if the member effects cancellation. C. Contributions shall be made between September 1 and October 1. Members returning from extended leave of absence and new employees may contribute within thirty (230) Board appointed members, calendar days upon reassignment of employment. Members returning from extended sick leave shall be permitted to contribute to the bank upon approval of the committee. D. Annual rates of contribution shall be up to three sick leave days for the first year of participation and one sick-leave day each year thereafter as determined by the Association and certified to the Superintendent prior to July 1 of each year. E. The maximum number of sick days that can be granted in any one fiscal year will be a mutually agreed upon fifth maximum of twenty days (20). A member may only access the sick leave bank up to a total of forty (40) days while a Unit II employee. In no case will the granting of leave from the bank cause a member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of receive more than his/her accumulated annual salary. F. The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to provide a means of obtaining additional sick leave for the remainder days to avoid loss of the school year compensation due to a catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberemployee sick leave bank member that requires intermittent or continuous absence from work. Catastrophic injury, which does not include pregnancy terminal diagnosis or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to illness is defined as a life-threatening condition or combination of conditions affecting the mothermental or physical health of the employee, and additional days are still neededincludes, then he/she may request through but is not limited to, the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' following: lengthy hospitalizations, necessary surgery requiring a lengthy recovery, an ongoing treatment regimen requiring frequent time off work, or complicated pregnancy requiring bed rest or hospitalization. The catastrophic illness or injury must require the services of a health provider. This benefit is available to eligible, voluntarily participating faculty and staff who have legitimately exhausted all of their accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick vacation leave. c. G. The bargaining unit sick leave bank committee may review the use of previously exhausted leave leading up to the request and deny the request. The decision of the committee is final. H. The Human Resources Department shall approve these bank grants as being for incapacitating illness and that sick leave, personal leave, and annual leave is exhausted and forward payment authorization to the Payroll Department. I. Bank grants will not be automatically carried over from one fiscal year to another. All bank grants will end as of June 30, or the last duty day of the fiscal year and must be renewed through the approval committee. J. If a member to whom does not use all the days are given must personally have granted from the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If bank, the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated unused sick leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can will be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating returned to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysbank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When PURPOSE: The purpose of this section is to provide additional sick leave to those staff members who are ill and whose sick leave has been exhausted. 1. On July 1st of each school year, the School Committee will deposit fifty (50) days in the judgment sick leave bank. On June 30 of a bargaining unit member's physician each year, the balance remaining in the sick leave bank will cease and a yearly committee made up new bank will be funded as of two (the following July 1. 2) ▇▇▇▇ . There shall be a Sick Leave Bank Committee which will be composed of: a. Three members of the bargaining unit. b. Two members appointed membersfrom Central Administration of the School Department one of which will be the Superintendent of Schools or designee. 3. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will decide, two (2) Board appointed membersby a majority vote, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, on granting an allotment of sick days from the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury bank using guidelines set forth as follows: a. All members of the bargaining unit member, are eligible to apply for days from the bank. b. An official application form (the form of which does not must be approved by the Committee and the Superintendent) must be completed. This application will include pregnancy space for certification by a medical doctor. c. The doctor may be the personal physician of the applicant. Additional medical information may be required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Superintendent has the right to require an examination by the City's Chief Medical Officer or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences their representative whose opinion as to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer nature or extent of the Board, in writing, of illness or injury will prevail. d. Applicant must have exhausted personal sick leave before they can be allotted additional sick days from the sick leave bank (as per deductible clause below). e. The following is the number of deductible days to required per years of service. Years Deductible Years Deductible 1 10 days 7 4 days 2 9 days 8 3 days 3 8 days 9 2 days 4 7 days 10 1 day 5 6 days 11 or more 0 days 6 5 days Deductible days are those days an applicant must be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall on unpaid leave because of sickness or injury before sick leave bank days can be a signed statement effective. f. Applications can be denied by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing Sick Leave Bank Committee if, in its opinion, any of the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraphfollowing apply: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as 1. Previous abuse of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated personal sick leave. c. 2. Insufficient medical evidence of need. 3. Disability does not warrant absences from employment. 4. The bargaining unit member to whom balance of days in the bank 5. Previous use of sick leave bank (applicable only when applicant shows repeated use of sick leave bank.) g. A maximum of twenty (20) days per applicant may be distributed at one time. If additional days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirementneeded, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school yeara re-application is required, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave daysincluding medical evidence of continued need. h. A bargaining unit member's donation maximum of sick leave thirty (30) days may be allotted to another bargaining unit member shall not count any one person in any one year. i. If the condition exists wherein a limited number of days remain in the bank and applications exceed this number, the following factors will be considered by Sick Leave Bank Committee in making a decision as to the allocation of days: 1. Seriousness of illness. 2. Seniority. 3. Past use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold 4. Financial circumstances of the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysindividual. j. A maximum Decisions of 120 (the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final provided all of the above provisions are met. 4. When a member of the bargaining unit who has borrowed days from the sick leave bank retires or dies, they will be required to return to the Cambridge School Committee one-hundred twenty) half of the days can granted from the sick leave bank. These days will be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysdeducted from accumulated personal sick leave.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The Board and the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) Association hereby agree to administer ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, Leave Bank according to the following requirements: A. An enrollment period shall be established between September 1 and a mutually agreed upon fifth September 15 for each member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such voluntarily donate a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units maximum of one (1) dayday of their accumulated, but no more unused, sick leave days to a Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank shall have not less than five fifty B. All new bargaining unit members shall be eligible for enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank. New members may enroll by donating one (51) sick leave day to the Bank within thirty (30) days total per recipient, provided that after the donor not go below forty-five (45) days date of accumulated sick leavehire. c. The bargaining unit member to whom C. A committee comprised of the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness Superintendent or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick designee, the president of the Association, or his/her designee, one (1) building principal chosen by the Superintendent, and personal leave firstone (1) Association member chosen by the Association president, shall administer the Bank. The Committee shall develop the approved form and shall approve applications at its discretion. The Superintendent and/or his/her designee shall serve as chairman. g. The D. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of their sick leave accumulation, who have developed a serious or catastrophic illness and who have contributed to the Sick Leave Bank may request sick leave days from the Bank. E. Approved bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member members shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days granted up to a maximum of 180 forty (one40) days from the Bank. The Committee may grant up to an additional ten (10) days for a maximum of fifty (50) days per person per lifetime. F. The members shall be required to provide documentation to the Committee. G. Absences due to alcohol and/or substance abuse of any kind shall not be considered appropriate reasons for application approval. H. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation and/or severance pay. I. Members receiving sick days from the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to repay the Bank at the rate of one (1) day a year for five (5) years. J. Should the Sick Leave Bank be terminated, the days in the Bank will be redistributed on a pro-hundred eighty) daysrated basis to those who contributed.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teacher sick leave days administered by the district which may be used after serious illness only by participating teachers. The definition of teacher in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for bank includes all positions which require a certificate issued by the remainder State Board of Education. 2. To become a member of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberbank, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No any teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can must donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total day per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 3 days donated in total. 3. Upon request by the Association to the Superintendent, the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be reported to the Association. 4. The maximum number of days that can be used by a sick-leave bank member from the Bank in one fiscal year's period of time may not exceed 75% of the days available in the bank at that time (one-to the nearest whole day.) 5. Days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be for serious illness on the part of the teacher, spouse or dependent children through age 23. It does not cover elective surgery. Teachers who draw benefits under the Teacher Retirement System or under Workmen's Compensation shall cease to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. Normal pregnancy is not considered a serious illness for purposes of this article. If complications develop, the member could request a review. 6. Days will continue to accumulate in the Bank up to one hundred eighty(100) days. Should the number of days exceed one hundred (100) during the first thirty days of the new school year, the additional days added for that year will be held in a reserve. At such time that one hundred (100) days are accumulated, any additional days will go into the reserve. Whenever the Sick Leave Bank drops below one hundred (100) days, the reserve shall be used to bring the Bank up to one hundred (100) days. No new days will be added by continuing members as long as the Sick Leave Bank remains at or above one hundred (100) days. New staff members will contribute when hired if they desire to participate in the Bank, with their sick day contribution going to the reserve should the Sick Leave Bank be at or above one hundred (100) days. The reserve days may not be considered as part of the maximum 75% of the days accessible for use. 7. No staff member can request to use the Bank unless all his/her sick days and personal leave days are exhausted. A committee of administrators and association members will review each request and make a recommendation to the Superintendent. In the case of an emergency when time does not permit this to be done ahead of time, the committee may act reto-actively. 8. Sick Leave Bank days will only be added during the first thirty (30) days of each school year. Any unused days carry over for use the next year. 9. If the number of days drops below the fully funded status (100 days), any active member who has not contributed the maximum of three days will be required to contribute a day per year until the 3-day maximum is attained.

Sick Leave Bank. When A voluntary certified teacher and certified administrator sick leave bank is in existence. A new member must contribute one (1) sick leave day each year for three years. In order to qualify for membership in the judgment sick leave bank, a teacher or administrator wishing to participate shall notify the designee of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) the Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all in writing of his/her accumulated sick leave intention to participate on or before the last school day of September. Such authorization shall remain in force until the participating teacher withdraws from the program in writing. Requests for the remainder use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be made by presentation of sufficient medical evidence (i.e. a medical documentation) to the Sick Leave Bank Committee here under provided. Participating members can be granted up to 60 days per year depending on the medical need. On October 1 of each school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member(beginning with 2016-2017), which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences members shall repay days to the motherSick Leave Bank at a rate of 3 days per year until all days have been repaid. At any time, and additional members wishing to pay a greater number of days, or all the days are still neededowed, then he/she may request through do so. If a member dies or retires before his debt is repaid, any days remaining in his sick leave account shall be placed in the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy Sick Leave Bank up to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days owed. After those days are placed in the Sick Leave Bank the debt shall be considered repaid. If a member needs to be deducted, from whom, borrow additional days the following year due to medical issues where evidence is confirmed by a physician and the person receiving need is approved by the transferred committee, he/she may do so even if the total of days used has not been repaid. He/she will only be granted 20 days at a time. The member can come before the committee up to three (3) times to request days for a total of 60 days. Included When the days in the notice shall be a signed statement by Sick Bank drop below 300 days, contribution at the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units rate of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total sick day per recipient, provided that member per year will begin the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days next school year. Such contributions shall continue until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can bank has reached a total of 300 days. Data relative to the Sick Leave Bank will be given than needed maintained in the Central Office with utilization reports to the Union due on October 31 of each year. A Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of three (3) Union members appointed by PEPC along with one (1) administrator and one (1) designee appointed by the bargaining unit member Superintendent will be established. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review all applicants desiring to serve out borrow personal illness days from the regular school year, and only that school yearbank. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank committee will be final. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in In cooperation with the judgment Board, the Association shall control the Bank, subject to the following guidelines: A. The intent of this plan is to provide extended sick leave to teachers and full-time ESP staff who have accumulated at least twenty-four (24) sick leave days, including the third year’s allotment, and who incur a bargaining unit member's physician period of prolonged illness, injury or hospitalization. Withdrawals shall not be available for unpaid maternity leave, elective surgery, and illness of immediate family or household members, early retirement, and/or death of family or household members. Prolonged illness shall mean a yearly committee made up minimum of ten (10) consecutive working days. In order to maintain continuity of instruction, elective surgery shall be scheduled so as not to interfere with the school calendar. B. The Board shall allow employees to contribute one (1) or two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member sick days per year to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for bank. An employee leaving the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences District may contribute one year’s unused sick leave to the motherBank. C. Notification of voluntary contribution shall be made by each employee to the Association in writing no later than October 1 of each year, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through at which time the Superintendent that additional days sick Day will be transferred deducted from other bargaining unit members' accumulated the employee’s sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify provide the treasurer Board with the names of the Board, in writing, of employees contributing to the Bank with the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included contributed per employee before October 15 each year. D. Days in the notice Sick Leave Bank, if unused, will accumulate each year. E. Members must contribute each year to benefit from the Sick Leave Bank. Should the number of accumulated days reach 550, no additional deduction shall be a signed statement by made from existing bank members until the bargaining unit member involved authorizing bank is depleted to 250 days, whereupon the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement deduction will be discussed with reinstated. Newly eligible members will contribute as specified in Paragraph B. above for admission into the affected member. These additional limitations Bank. F. A member receiving days from the Sick Leave Bank shall not be required to pay back the number of days used from the Bank. G. No one will apply be able to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins withdraw days from the school year with less than forty-Bank until after his/her accrued Sick Leave days have been depleted by five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave working days. b. Donations from H. Members may draw a bargaining unit member must be in units maximum of 150 unused days for any one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirementI. The member, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust in his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating application to the Association's administration , shall set forth the nature of sick leave transfer the illness, or injury together with written verification of the illness, or injury and prognosis for recovery from a licensed physician. J. In the event the Sick Leave Bank is dropped from the contract, all accumulated days will remain and be used as agreed in that final contract, until the Bank is depleted. K. The Association acknowledges that the terms contained in this Article are the result of full, ▇▇▇▇▇, and arms-length negotiations between the parties. Accordingly, the Association assumes equal responsibility for the inclusion of each and every provision in this Article. The Association agrees to co-indemnify the Board and its officers, agents and employees against any and all claims, demands, suits, and judgments (including the cost of defense associated with same) arising from any claim that any of the provisions of this Article violate any federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations. L. The Association shall provide to the Board the written reasons for the approval or denial of any request for Sick Leave Bank days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the an employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to a catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberemployee and/or his/her immediate family (spouse, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the motherparent, child) and additional days are still needed, then he/she the employee may request through the Superintendent Association that additional sick leave days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavean established Sick Leave Bank. The Association shall establish an internal policy a committee to administer such any transfers from the Sick Leave Bank. Catastrophic illness or injury shall be defined as disease, injury, or illness which is life threatening or requires a transfersignificant period of absence. Examples of qualifying conditions would include, but not be limited to, heart conditions, cancer, or stroke. Examples of non-qualifying conditions are normal pregnancies and elective surgeries. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These following additional limitations will apply to this paragraphthe Sick Leave Bank: a. No 1. Employees may donate one of their accumulated sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank each school year, but such election will not reflect upon the donor’s attendance record. 2. Election to make a donation will be made once per year on the opening teacher who begins workday. 3. The donation of the accumulated sick leave day is non-refundable and will be deposited into the Sick Leave Bank. 4. An employee must donate a day to be eligible to be eligible to qualify for use of the Sick Leave Bank at least once during this contract term. 5. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used if the employee has applied for and been granted disability retirement. 6. Only days needed to complete the regular school year with less will apply, and in no case shall an employee receive more than forty-five seven (457) days as of July 1 from the Sick Leave Bank per contract year. 7. An employee can donate only apply for Sick Leave Bank days once he/she has exhausted his/her own sick leave daysand personal leave. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must 8. Requested days will be in units increments of at least one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. 9. The bargaining unit member to whom Association Committee will notify the Treasurer in writing approving an employee for receiving days are given must personally have from the catastrophic illness or injurySick Leave Bank, with a physician’s statement and the number of days requested. d. If 10. Any balance of days in the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can Sick Leave Bank will be given than needed by the bargaining unit member carried forward year to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teachers’ sick leave days administered by the district, which may be used for serious illness only by participating teachers. The official record of the Sick Leave Bank will be housed in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersDistrict Office. Any teachers who donate, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included have donated in the notice shall be past, a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units minimum of one (1) sick leave day will be members of the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers shall not be allowed to request days from the Sick Leave Bank unless they have exhausted all of their existing personal leave and sick leave days first. At the beginning of each school year, teachers will have an opportunity to donate sick leave days to the sick leave bank. Teachers may donate up to 10 sick leave days at this time. Donation of sick leave days to the sick leave bank is final and irrevocable. Teachers shall provide written notice of their decision to donate days to the sick leave bank, and the number of sick leave days to be donated if they choose to donate sick leave days to the sick leave bank, to the Superintendent by the end of the 5th school day of each semester. An account of the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be shared with the Association electronically at the end of each semester. In the event that the Sick Leave Bank falls below 20 days during the school year, the Association President will be informed by the Superintendent. All teachers will be given the opportunity to donate at least one day, but and no more than five days, to the Bank at this time. Any teacher who was not previously a member of the Sick Leave Bank will immediately become a member of the Bank if they choose to donate at least one day under these circumstances. Days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be for serious illness on the part of the teacher, spouse, parent or dependent children through age 21. It does not cover elective surgery. Teachers who are drawing retirement benefits under the Teacher Retirement System will not be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. Doctor’s verification of serious illness may be required by the Sick Leave Bank committee. Days from the Sick Leave Bank may be used non-consecutively pending approval by the Superintendent and the Sick Leave Bank committee. Sick Leave Bank days used for serious illness of a spouse, parent or dependent children through age 21 shall be limited to a cumulative total of ten (510) days total per recipientrequest. A six (6) member committee consisting of one (1) Board Member/Administrator, the Superintendent, and four (4) members of the Association (made up of one teacher from each building currently participating in the bank and the Association President) shall serve as members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall review all requests submitted to the Sick Leave Bank. Requests to the Sick Leave Bank must be made in writing (electronic mail is sufficient) to the Superintendent and the Association President who will then convene the Sick Leave Bank Committee as soon as reasonably possible. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may also be convened for the purpose of reviewing procedures and provisions of the Sick Leave Bank upon the request of either the Association or the Board/Administration. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall have the authority to recommend the dissolution of the Sick Leave Bank. Such a recommendation shall be submitted to the KEA membership and Board of Education for consideration. The Sick Leave Bank may only be dissolved by a simple majority vote of both the KEA membership and the Board of Education. In the event that the Sick Leave Bank is dissolved, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will decide how unused sick leave days shall be dispersed. A retiring teacher may donate up to ten (10) sick days to the Sick Leave Bank, provided that the donor not go below forty-five donation is received in writing (45electronic mail shall be sufficient) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating prior to the Association's administration retiring teachers’ final day of sick leave transfer daysservice. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When A. Two sick leave banks shall be established by the Board; One for use by participating teachers and one for use by participating ESPs. The committees will be comprised of: 1. Two (2) Association members appointed by the Association president. 2. One (1) employee appointed by the Superintendent. 3. The Assistant Superintendent of Personnel. B. To be eligible for membership in the judgment Sick Leave Bank, the employee: 1. ▇▇▇▇▇ have completed one year of employment as a full-time employee of the Board. 2. Be a full-time employee of the Board at the time of application. 3. Have a minimum of nine (9) days of accumulated sick leave at the date of application. 4. Shall apply for membership on an approved form during the enrollment period. This form shall be submitted to the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary on the part of each employee. C. Each participating member shall contribute one day of sick leave to the bank upon enrollment. Membership applications shall be submitted during the first twenty (20) workdays of a bargaining unit member's physician school calendar year. The committee shall act to approve or disapprove applications on basis of rules herein described. New members become eligible for participation in the Bank on October 1st. Deduction of the day for the new members will be reflected on the October Statement of Earnings and a yearly committee made up Deductions. D. Each participating employee shall contribute, by way of deduction from their official sick leave record, one day of sick leave anytime the balance in the Bank falls below twenty percent (20%) of the number of participants. No employee shall be required to contribute more than two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersdays in any one school year, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, after the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units initial membership contribution of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) . The committee shall notify members in E. Membership shall be on a continuing basis unless a letter requesting withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank is submitted to the Personnel Department of the school district. Upon receipt of said letter the committee shall be notified. Any member who chooses to withdraw from participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be able to withdraw any sick leave days total per recipient, provided that already contributed. F. Members needing to utilize days in the donor not go below forty-five (45) Sick Leave Bank will request the needed number of days of on a Sick Leave Bank Program Withdrawal Application form with the medical statement attached. The application must be completed in full. A participating employee may be eligible for sick leave from the Bank only after having met the following conditions: 1. Has used all his/her accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury2. Is not eligible for Worker's Compensation pay. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied 3. Is not eligible for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effectInjury in Line-of-Duty pay as granted by rule of School Board. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave 4. Has been absent from employment for at least five (5) consecutive working days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation 5. The above condition number 4 may be waived to provide for intermittent or reduced schedule under the following conditions: a. Illness has been judged by the Sick Leave Bank to be catastrophic in nature. b. The days requested are directly related to the catastrophic illness. 6. Has an application approved by the Sick Leave Bank committee. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave credit, up to thirty (30) days, may be granted to a participating member applicant at the discretion and upon the authority of the Sick Leave Bank committee after consideration by the committee of all outstanding eligible applications. Any sick leave awarded from the Sick Leave Bank to another bargaining unit member a participating employee shall be used for absence due to the employee's personal catastrophic illness, accident, or injury. Mental/emotional illnesses and pregnancy will not count as be considered catastrophic illnesses. However, complications from pregnancy or mental/emotional illnesses, which require hospitalization or institutionalization, will be considered by the committee. The Sick Leave Bank committee, at its discretion, is authorized to grant fifteen (15) additional days in hardship situations. Once days from the sick leave bank are granted, the use of the sick leave for bank days will begin on the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend fourth (4th) day without pay. These days without pay shall be in addition to, and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) shall start after, any days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstanceswithout pay as stipulated in Article XVII, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.Sections A.3.e; A.3.f; and A.

Sick Leave Bank. When in (1) A sick leave bank shall be established to provide extended sick leave to members of the judgment sick leave bank who incur a period of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up prolonged serious illness, injury or hospitalization. (2) Membership shall be voluntary. Employees who are not members of the sick bank may enroll by submitting an application to the SPCA Sick Leave Bank Committee following two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, years of active service. A new member shall contribute two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed days of sick leave upon fifth member to chairenrollment. Membership shall continue automatically while an employee remains employed in the School District. (3) If at the beginning of any school term, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, quotient of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included available in the notice shall be a signed statement sick leave bank divided by the bargaining unit number of actively employed members at that time is more than one (1), each actively employed member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of shall contribute one (1) dayday of sick leave to the bank. If said quotient is less than one (1), but each actively employed member shall contribute two (2) days of sick leave to the bank. If after a review at the beginning of each school term the SPCA Sick Leave Committee/Executive Board determines that there is sufficient number of days available in the sick leave bank for that school term, no more than contribution of days by the members will need to be made. Members returning to active employment after the beginning of the school term shall contribute the same number of days of sick leave as those members actively employed at the beginning of the school term. (4) To continue operation, the sick leave must have fifty percent (50%) of eligible employees as members. (5) Conditions controlling the operation of the sick leave bank shall be as follows: (a) Illness or disability shall have caused a sick leave bank member's absence for at least ten (10) consecutive working days or at least twelve (12) total consecutive days, whichever is the lesser. (b) To qualify for withdrawal from the sick leave bank a member shall have been a sick leave bank member for one (1) year, a member shall have exhausted all accumulated sick leave and personal leave and shall have been absent without pay for at least five (5) consecutive days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days as a consequence of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic serious illness or injury. d. If disability. The member shall submit a typed verification by a licensed physician of the bargaining unit member has applied serious illness or disability to the SPCA Sick Leave Bank Committee/Executive Board and they will determine the eligibility for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own withdrawal of sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave bank days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation (c) Sick Leave bank members using the sick leave bank shall not be required to pay back in any manner the number of days borrowed. (d) The sick leave bank shall be applicable only to the illness of sick leave bank members. (e) The sick leave bank shall not be applicable for cosmetic surgery (as defined in current insurance coverage), elective surgery, diagnostic procedures, or other procedures which may be safely deferred until a vacation or recess period, except if complications result there from. The sick leave bank shall not cover cases covered by Workers' Compensation. The sick leave bank shall be available for that part of the pregnancy or childbirth that results in a physical inability to another bargaining unit work. (f) Days withdrawn from the sick leave bank by any sick leave bank member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred exceed twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment A Sick Leave Bank consists of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave days contributed by Educational Support Service staff members. All Educational Support Service personnel earning sick leave days are eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be funded as follows: Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. After one academic year of service, a staff member is eligible to contribute one day of sick leave to the Sick Bank and to make a request for sick leave from the remainder Sick Leave Bank. Each sick day donated will be commensurate with the staff member’s contracted work day. For example, a staff member who works six hours a day will donate a sick day equivalent to six hours. Unused days in the Sick Leave Bank as of June 30th of each year will roll over to the following school year. If necessary, an additional sick day will be assessed whenever the total number of days in the bank is less than one fifth (1/5) the number of participating members. No more than two days per year will be assessed. For example, if 100 Educational Support Service personnel are participating in the Sick Leave Bank, each eligible staff member will contribute the appropriate number of sick leave hours to the Sick Leave Bank when the number of sick days falls below 20 days (160 hours). Administration of the school year due Sick Leave Bank plan will be managed by Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources and two representatives of the Educational Support Service staff. The committee will grant days from the Sick Leave Bank based on the following: The Sick Leave Bank is intended to cover individuals who have experienced a catastrophic illness or accident. Medical reports from licensed medical doctors will be required and must be provided to receive sick leave hours from the Sick Leave Bank. These reports will be submitted to the Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources on a form developed for this purpose. The staff member must have an illness or accident requiring an absence of more than five consecutive work days. The staff member must have used all their sick days, personal days, and, if applicable, vacation days, before they are eligible to use any sick days from the Sick Leave Bank. The staff member may only request sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank for their own illness or injury. Staff members may not request sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank because of the illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit immediate family members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the maximum number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of granted for an application for disability retirement illness or accident will be discussed with the affected member20 days per illness/accident. These additional limitations Days awarded will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating retroactive to the Association's administration first day of sick leave transfer days. j. eligibility. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee staff member may approve additional days up to make a maximum of 180 two separate requests for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank in any school year if the reasons for the requests are not related. More information regarding the Educational Support Service sick leave bank can be found on the Staff Connections website (one-hundred eighty▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇) daysby clicking on the Support Staff link. Family Medical Leave: The Family Medical Leave Act provides for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible employees on an annual basis. Additional information about Family Medical Leave (Board Policy 5:185) and eligibility for this type of leave is available upon request from the Office of Human Resources.

Sick Leave Bank. When a. Each employee covered by this Agreement will assign one of his/her credited fourteen (14) sick leave days to a sick leave bank. The assignment shall be made at the initiation of employment in each school year. b. A teacher who suffers an illness of prolonged duration may apply for permission to draw upon the judgment accumulated leave of the sick leave bank, which, if approved, will become effective after a bargaining unit member's physician forty (40) school day waiting period. c. Applications will be submitted to the District Superintendent or his/her designee. Applications will be jointly evaluated and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed membersapproved by the District Superintendent and the Erie 1 Professional Education Association designee as per the guidelines in Appendix F. If no agreement can be reached by both parties, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member arbitrator will be selected to chair, render a decision. An appeal may be made to a third party selected by the employee will exhaust all District Superintendent/designee and the Association President. d. The terms of his/her accumulated sick leave this section are not applicable to employees employed at less than the equivalent of half-time. e. The contributions and benefits provided by this section shall be pro- rated for employees employed the remainder equivalent of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. half-time but less than full-time. f. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deductedassigned to the sick leave bank will be determined by the number of employees employed as of October 1, from whom, and on at least a half-time basis or more. g. All unused portions of the person receiving sick leave bank will accumulate up to a limit of three times the transferred days. Included number of employees in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing with the Board treasurer excess being maintained. In a year in which the sick leave bank accumulation exceeds the limit, no deduction shall be made from an individual teacher's annual sick leave. h. Upon the complete exhaustion of all days in the sick leave bank during any school year, the District will provide up to transfer one hundred (100) sick days to be available for use in that school year in accordance with sick leave bank procedures. i. In addition, after exhaustion of the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement District contribution, the bank will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of open for one (1) day, but no more than five additional mandatory day deposit by each employee in (5f) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveabove. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to provide additional sick leave to those staff members who are ill and whose sick leave has been exhausted. 1. On July 1st of each school year, the School Committee will deposit fifteen (15) days in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two Sick Leave Bank. It is agreed that on June 30th the bank will cease. 2. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will be composed of: a. Three (23) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder members of the school year due Bargaining Unit. b. Two members appointed from Central Administration, one of whom will be the Superintendent's designee. 3. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will decide, on a majority vote, on an allotment of days from the Sick Leave Bank, using guidelines set forth below: a. All members of the Bargaining Unit are eligible to catastrophic apply for days from the bank. b. An official application form (form to be approved by both parties) must be completed. This application form is to include space for certification by a medical doctor. c. The doctor may be the personal physician of the applicant. Additional medical information may be required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Superintendent has the right to require an examination by the City's chief medical officer or his representative whose opinion as to the nature or extent of the illness or injury will prevail. d. Applicant must have exhausted personal sick leave before the effective date of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional sick days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. (as per deductible clause). e. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of following is the number of deductible days to required per years of service: 2 9 days 8 3 days 3 8 days 9 2 days 4 7 days 10 1 day 5 6 days 11 or more 0 days 6 5 days Deductible days are those days an applicant must be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall on unpaid leave because of sickness or injury before Sick Leave Bank days can be a signed statement effective. f. Applicants can be denied by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing Sick Leave Committee if, in its opinion, any of the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraphfollowing apply: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as 1. Previous abuse of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated personal sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom 2. Insufficient medical evidence of need. 3. Disability does not warrant absences from employment. 4. Lack of days in the bank. 5. Previous use of Sick Leave Bank (applicable only when applicant shows repeated use of Sick Leave Bank). g. A maximum of seven (7) days per applicant may be distributed at one time. If additional days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injuryneeded, a reapplication is required including medical evidence of continued need. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave h. A maximum of seven (7) days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can may be given than needed by the bargaining unit member allotted to serve out the regular school year, and only that any one person in any one school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick i. If the condition exists wherein a limited number of days remain in the bank and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave applications exceed this number, the following factors will not earn additional sick leave while receiving be considered by the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count Sick Leave Bank Committee in making a decision as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration allocation of sick leave transfer the days: 1. Seriousness of illness. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When a. A sick leave bank shall be established for the purpose of making additional sick leave days available to bargaining unit members who have been employed in Mansfield for at least one (1) year, who have exhausted their entire sick leave accumulation through prolonged illness, and who have a serious illness or injury. A serious illness or injury shall be one which requires the employee's absence from work for more than ten (10) consecutive workdays. b. To be eligible to join the sick leave bank, an employee must have been employed by the Mansfield School Committee in the judgment of a custodial bargaining unit member's physician and for at least one (1) year. c. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a yearly committee made up Sick Leave Bank Committee comprised of two four (24) ▇▇▇▇ appointed memberspersons, two (2) Board appointed membersby the Association and two (2) by the District. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the Grievance Procedure. d. In administering the Bank, determining eligibility and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chairdetermining the amount of leave, the employee will exhaust all following general criteria shall be applied by the Bank Committee: (1) medical evidence of serious extended illness; (2) prior utilization of eligible sick leave; and, (3) other factors as a majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee may deem appropriate. No days may be withdrawn from the Bank for any illness other than prolonged illness or accident. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding, with any appeal limited to an appeal to the Bank Committee itself. e. Each member of the bargaining unit shall be required to contribute one (1) sick leave day from his/her accumulated sick leave for per year. The Sick Leave Bank will be funded by deducting one (1) sick leave day from the remainder accumulated sick leave days of each employee who has qualified to participate in the school year due Bank and to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences contribute such days to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaveBank. The Association In no event shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of accumulated sick days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by Sick Leave Bank exceed fifty (50). When the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer Bank is depleted to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five fifteen (4515) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units , an additional assessment of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that day of sick leave shall be made against the donor not go below forty-five (45) days sick leave account of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school yeareach eligible employee. f. A grant of sick leave days from the Bank shall not exceed seven (7) days per request, after which the employee may reapply for additional days. The bargaining unit member must exhaust sick leave days granted by the Bank will be retroactive to the first day of the employee's illness or injury after his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave has been exhausted. In the event of a difficult to diagnose disease, eligibility will not earn additional be considered from the first point from which the illness began. Request for Sick Leave Bank days shall be submitted in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall include a written statement from the employee's physician indicating the nature and extent of the illness or injury and the estimated time that the employee will be absent from work. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is agreed that once a total of twenty (20) sick leave while receiving days have been granted from the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for bank during any one calendar year, the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by Sick Leave Bank Committee may make a bargaining unit member against the Board relating written request to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days District for permission to grant up to a maximum of 180 an additional ten (one-hundred eighty10) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A sick leave bank shall be established for the purpose of making additional sick leave days available to employees who have completed one (1) year of continuous employment by the Committee, who have exhausted their entire sick leave accumulation, and who have a serious illness or injury. A serious illness or injury for the purpose of this Article shall be one which requires the employee's absence from work for more than ten (10) consecutive work days. Participation in the judgment sick leave bank by employees shall be voluntary. 2. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee comprised of a bargaining unit member's physician three (3) persons. One of such persons shall be the Superintendent and a yearly committee made up of the other two (2) ▇▇▇▇ persons shall be appointed members, by the Association from its membership. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the Grievance Procedure. The Sick Bank Committee members consist of: Superintendent of Schools and two members of the Association. 3. The sick leave bank will be initially funded by deducting one (21) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, sick leave day from the employee will exhaust all of his/her accrued or accumulated sick leave for days of each employee, who has agreed to participate in the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit memberbank, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences and contributing such days to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavebank. The Association Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish determine the eligibility of an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify employee for sick leave days from the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of bank and the number of sick leave days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred daysgranted in each case. Included The balance of sick leave days in the notice bank shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer carried forward from year to transfer the daysyear. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement One (1) sick day will be discussed with added to the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysbank each year by employees who wish to participate. b. Donations from 4. Sick leave days will be made available only to an employee who has been employed for a bargaining unit member must be in units continuous period of one (1) dayyear and is participating in the bank, but no more than five who has exhausted all of their personal sick leave days, and who has been absent from work for a period of ten (510) consecutive work days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days because of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic a serious illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated . The sick leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed granted by the bargaining unit member bank will be retroactive to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. first day of the employee's illness or injury. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated initial grant of sick leave will days from the bank shall not earn exceed twenty (20), after which the employee may apply for additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of 5. Requests for sick leave days from the bank shall be submitted in writing to another bargaining unit member the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall not count as use include a written statement from the employee's physician indicating the nature and extent of sick leave for the purposes of calculating illness or injury and the non-use incentive paymentestimated time that the employee will be absent from work. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee6. In extenuating circumstancesadministering the Bank, determining eligibility, and the amount of leave, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.following general criteria shall be applied by the Bank Committee:

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a a. Any bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of may contribute from his/her accumulated current sick leave, one (1) day to the sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leavebank. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such sick leave bank will not exceed a transfertotal of one-hundred-fifty (150) days. The Association shall notify If the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number balance of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortybank falls below twenty-five (4525) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units an assessment of one (1) additional day will be made to each member of the sick bank. b. When an employee’s sick leave has been exhausted, and if he/she has contributed a day to the bank, such employee may be granted additional sick leave days, not to exceed twenty (20) work days. All withdrawals from the bank are subject to the following: An employee is not eligible for bank benefits until he/she has repaid borrowed days and contributed an additional day. In order to be eligible to draw from the bank, but no more than the employee must present a doctor’s certificate of illness or injury. c. The sick leave bank shall be available to all employees in the School District who have made a contribution to the bank. An employee must be a member of the sick bank for ninety (90) calendar days before being eligible to withdraw days from the bank. d. The sick leave bank shall be administered by one (1) person designated by the Superintendent and two (2) authorized representatives of the Association; these persons shall be the sick leave bank committee which shall administer all matters related to the sick leave bank. The decisions of the committee shall be subject to the approval of the Superintendent. e. Sick leave bank days shall not be used where its payment would reduce other benefits provided in this contract or by law. f. Any authorized employee who uses sick bank days shall repay those days to the sick bank at a minimum rate of five (5) days total per recipient, provided that year. Said employee may not borrow again from the donor not go below forty-bank until all used days have been repaid. The five (455) days replenishment rate shall be automatically deducted at the beginning of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days each year until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school yearbalance is repaid. If employment with Birch Run Area Schools is terminated, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating outstanding debts to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysbank must be paid before qualifying for terminal pay. A person does not have to replenish days that were originally contributed by themselves; however, at least one day must be re-deposited to be eligible for another loan from the bank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purposes of aiding Members of the Bargaining Unit who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave through extended absence due to personal illness/disability or serious illness in the judgment immediate family (immediate family and serious illness is defined in 3.1). The bank will contain unused sick days, which are voluntarily contributed by participating Members. 2. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment will be by September 15th for each school year or within fifteen (15) days following employment. 3. Membership in the sick leave bank is made possible by contributing at least one (1) day of sick leave to the bank. Additional days of up to ten (10) per year may also be contributed by each member. Annual contributions to the bank must be finished by September 15 or within fifteen (15) days of employment. Donations to the bank by persons with the maximum accumulation of sick leave will make these donors eligible to again obtain regular sick leave days in order to maximize their accumulations. When contributions to the bank have accumulated to a bargaining unit member's physician and total of two hundred fifty (250) or more days, except for new participants, no more days will be added until the bank is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, at which time those Members of the Bargaining Unit having accumulated sick leave shall contribute one additional day. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next year. Use of bank days by participants shall be limited to the school year in which the personal illness/disability or the serious illness in the immediate family began. 4. Administration of the sick leave bank will be handled by a yearly committee made up of four (4) Members of the Bargaining Unit, appointed by WEA; two (2) ▇▇▇▇ classified employees, appointed members, by the classified staff; and two (2) Board administrators appointed members, by the Superintendent. Record keeping will be undertaken by the business office and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for groups shall have the remainder of right to periodically examine the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leaverecords during normal business hours. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify business manager will make the treasurer of the Board, in writing, initial evaluation of the number of days to be deducted, available from whomthe sick leave bank, and the person receiving committee will grant or deny the transferred request. Upon partial or full denial of a request for withdrawal of sick leave days, the employee may appeal the decision of the committee to the Superintendent who will then make the final decision on the appeal. Included The committee shall insure that withdrawals from the bank under this policy are for maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, prolonged illness/disability, bereavement, or serious illness in the notice immediate family.  Maternity/paternity/adoptive paid leave shall be limited to no more than six (6) weeks for normal vaginal delivery and eight (8) weeks for caesarean delivery per family, including the use of the Member of the Bargaining Unit’s accumulated sick leave prior to receiving days from the sick leave bank. Checkups and follow up appointments after the 8-week period will not be granted from the sick leave bank unless they fall under one of the other requirements for use of the bank.  Prolonged illness/disability shall mean an illness that a signed statement by physician would certify as being necessary to be absent from work or hospitalized. This would also cover a recurring treatment (weekly or monthly appointment) for an existing illness/disability.  The amount of time granted for bereavement shall be the bargaining unit member involved authorizing decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues.  Serious illness shall mean any illness that a physician would certify as being necessary for the Member of the Bargaining Unit to be in attendance with family members. The Superintendent reserves the right to request verification of the need for absence under provisions of this paragraph.  Immediate family shall be defined as mother, father, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephew, ▇▇▇▇▇, spouse, child, step child or step parent, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children, brother, sister, in-laws of any of the above, or death other than in the immediate family where there has been close association.  The amount of time granted for each funeral shall be the decision of the administration, taking into consideration the distance to be traveled and other issues. The Board of Education reserves the right to overrule the sick leave bank committee if the Board treasurer of Education discovers that the committee’s action violates federal or state law. 5. All requests for use of the bank must be submitted in writing to transfer the daysbusiness office and must be supported by a written statement from the participant’s personal physician as to the specific number of days the member will be required to be absent for that specific personal illness/disability or that of the immediate family members serious illness or disability. The appropriateness business office will forward the request to the committee for a decision. 6. The maximum of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with sick leave days which the affected member. These additional limitations will apply committee may provide to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than fortya participant is thirty-five (4535) days as of July 1 can donate annually. Such additional sick leave days. b. Donations days shall not be deducted from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per the recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of ’s future accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom ; however, each participant who has received assistance from the days are given sick leave bank must personally have reestablish participation for the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit 7. When a Member of the Bargaining Unit is retiring at the end of the school year, the member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation may donate up to fifty (50) days of unused sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of the sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive paymentbank. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made 1. Each covered employee under this Agreement may donate up of to two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave each year by September 30. The maximum number of days the Bank shall be allowed to carry over from year to year shall be the number of bargaining unit members, minus the number of new hires for the upcoming year. The Bank shall be allowed to accumulate up to an amount equal to the number of members in the bargaining unit. Any covered employee who contributes to the Sick Bank may borrow sick days from this Bank based upon the following formula: a. Up to one year of service in this system, 15 days additional sick leave; b. Up to two years of service in this system, up to 30 days additional sick leave; c. Up to three years or more of service in this system, up to 45 days additional sick leave. c. 2. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury.basic criteria for applying for and using sick leave from this Sick Bank shall be: d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. a. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own covered employee’s accumulated sick and personal leave firstshall have been exhausted; b. The covered employee shall have been involved in a major operation, or a serious and prolonged illness; c. The days borrowed by the covered employee shall be paid back by the borrowing employee at a rate of not less than six (6) days per year, except that days previously donated by the covered employee would be subtracted from the days borrowed. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as 3. Application for use of sick leave the Sick Leave Bank shall be made to an Association-designated committee of three (3) teachers for evaluation and disposition based upon reasonable rules and regulations adopted by the purposes Association to administer this benefit. The decision of calculating the non-Association committee to approve use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold of the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating Sick Leave Bank shall be communicated in writing to the Association's administration Superintendent for record-keeping purposes. It shall also be the responsibility of sick leave transfer daysthe Association to communicate in writing to the Superintendent’s Office the names of employees contributing to the Sick Leave Bank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in a. The purpose of the judgment of a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member sick leave bank shall be to chair, the employee will extend to those teachers who choose to participate additional sick leave days should an illness or injury exhaust all of his/her their accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such during a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick b. Within 60 days following the ratification of this Agreement, each teacher, regardless of FTE and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated not a current participant in the sick leave will not earn additional bank, may join the bank by contributing two days of their sick leave while receiving allowance to the donated bank. The sick leave days. h. bank committee may also establish one additional open enrollment period during this Agreement. A bargaining unit member's donation new teacher shall be allowed to join the bank by contributing two days of their sick leave allowance, provided they elect to do so within 60 days of the date of employment. Whenever the total number of sick leave days in the bank drops below one day per member of the bank, the sick leave bank shall be replenished by assessing each member one sick leave day. All sick leave contributions and assessments to another bargaining unit the sick leave bank are irrevocable. Only teachers who are current members of the bank may apply for days from the bank. c. Upon depleting personal sick leave and personal/emergency leave, and after obtaining a doctor’s statement certifying a physical illness or injury rendering a member unable to perform duties listed on a member’s job description for a period of more than five work days, a member may request days from the bank. A committee composed of one representative of the administration and three representatives of the Association will act immediately on the request. The committee shall grant the request if: 1) District records show that the member has exhausted their sick leave; 2) The member is a contributing member to the sick leave bank according to 3.b above; and 3) The member has experienced an illness or disability that has prevented them from performing their job requirements for more than five days and a doctor has certified in writing this illness or disability. 4) When a member has accessed the sick leave bank then has a prolonged absence for the same or other qualifying medical condition within the same school year, they should be allowed more access to the bank, up to the total of 65 days. If the request is for a new qualifying medical condition, section 3 above needs to be met before the member can access the sick leave bank. i. If the request is approved, the committee shall notify the District Office and resulting days, including the first five days of the illness or injury, if personal sick leave was not count as use available for those days, will be charged to the bank until the member returns to work or has used 65 days from the bank. ii. The District shall keep accurate records of leave accumulated by the bank and of sick leave for used by the purposes bank. Annually, the District shall notify the Association in writing of calculating accumulated days and days charged to the non-use incentive paymentbank that year. i. The Association will defend and hold iii. Membership shall be terminated by written request of the Board harmless against claims member or by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to end of employment. Previously donated days shall remain in the Association's administration bank. Temporary teachers hired back by the first day of sick leave transfer daysthe following work year shall retain membership in the Sick Leave Bank. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When in The purpose of sick leave bank benefits is to provide compensable leave coverage to teachers who are absent due to extended disability because of serious personal illness or injury. Teachers shall become eligible to receive sick leave bank benefits when they have been absent from work for ten (10) consecutive working days AND have exhausted all of their personal accumulated sick leave days. The requirement of being absent for ten (10) consecutive days is waived for individuals eligible for a FMLA or disability leave. The sick leave bank shall contain a maximum of 270 days. An eligible teacher shall receive the judgment current contractual rate of pay while disabled for a bargaining unit member's physician period not to exceed 180 contracted teaching days, with committee review every forty- five (45) school days. The sick leave bank committee will consist of three (3) representatives designated by the Association and a yearly committee made up of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed representatives of the Board and the superintendent. In the case of a tie the issue will be heard by the full board of education. Application for sick leave bank benefits shall be made in writing to the sick leave bank committee through the Superintendent and shall include medical verification. The Superintendent shall convene the committee within five (5) work days. When a determination is made, the applicant will be informed in writing, with copies to the Superintendent, business manager and committee members. The administration office shall do all paperwork and record keeping. No eligible applicant will be denied the days that he/she has contributed. A record of each teacher's contribution shall be maintained by the administration office. The administration office shall furnish the association with a written statement at the beginning of each school year setting forth the total number of days in the sick leave bank and the number of sick leave days each member has contributed to the bank. The teacher shall pay back to the sick leave bank a minimum of three (3) days per year for each year worked until all days borrowed are repaid to the bank or the bank becomes full. Payment shall begin at the commencement of the school year that the teacher returns to work by deducting three (3) days from the teacher's yearly allotment for that year and from succeeding years until the amount borrowed is repaid. All payments of loaned sick leave bank days will be waived if the teacher is laid off, or retires due to illness, age, or death prior to payment in full. If a teacher resigns or is dismissed for any other reason while in debt to the sick leave bank, that teacher must pay the school district the equivalent of substitute pay during time of illness for each day owed to the bank. The days paid for by the teacher will revert to the sick leave bank. To establish and continue the sick leave bank, the following procedures will be a. Each teacher shall contribute two (2) Board appointed memberssick leave days at the beginning of each school year of this master agreement. b. Should the bank be depleted to a point where the Association wishes to add more days, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member all teachers shall contribute an additional day(s) to chair, the employee will exhaust all bank for the duration of his/her this master agreement. c. Teachers whose accumulated sick leave for exceeds the remainder maximum referred to in Article 11, Paragraph A may voluntarily contribute fifty percent (50%) of their sick leave days over the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury maximum of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences 110 to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through sick leave bank. Their voluntary contributions shall be in writing to the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association and the Superintendent shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than committee members within five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injury. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave work days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.

Sick Leave Bank. When Each member of the bargaining unit may voluntarily become a member of the Sick Leave Bank for custodians, maintenance, and grounds keepers. A. As a requirement of membership in the judgment Sick Leave Bank, each participating unit member shall voluntarily donate at least a determined number of a bargaining days per year (as determined each year by the Sick Bank Committee “SLBC”) from their sick leave accruement to the pool which shall be effective on the first day of the fiscal year (July). The unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up of member shall have been in the unit for two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, full years from their date of hire and shall have accumulated a total of twenty (20) personal sick leave days in order to be eligible for membership in the Sick Leave Bank (“Bank”). The unit member shall donate two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for days upon entry into the remainder Bank and then shall donate one (1) day each year thereafter. Section I of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and this Section “Sick Leave Bank” may require additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, donated to the Bank from whom, and the person receiving the transferred daystime to time. 1. Included in the notice shall be First year: a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the donates two (2) days 2. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave days. b. Donations from Second year: a bargaining unit member must be in units of donates one (1) day 3. Every year after: a unit member donates one (1) day per year B. The existence of the Sick Leave Bank is a privilege rather than a convenience; therefore, but no more than five (5) days total per recipientwill be granted from the Bank for serious injury, provided that illness, etc. This must be verified by a physician’s certificate, which gives clarification as to what is wrong with the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leaveunit member and how long the unit member will be disabled. c. The bargaining C. An individual shall not lose membership in the Bank should the participating unit member to whom the days are given must personally have the catastrophic illness or injurybe out for an extended period of time. d. If D. The Sick Leave Bank will be available only after the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirementexhausted all of their own personal days, then vacation days and all accumulated sick days with a balance of zero days on record before any days granted by the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effectSick Leave Bank will start. *Refer to part (F) Sick Leave Bank. e. No more days can E. Application for benefits shall be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating made to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) days.Sick Leave Bank Committee

Sick Leave Bank. When The School Employer will establish a sick leave bank for all Certificated Employees. 1. The number of Certificated Employees wishing to contribute one (1) day of sick leave to the bank at the start of the school year will determine the number of days in the judgment bank. If the sick bank has a balance of less than 90 days, all participating teachers will donate one sick day to the bank in addition to the days they donated when joining the sick bank. 2. A Certificated Employee may be granted days from the sick leave bank under these conditions: a. The Certificated Employee must have contributed one (1) day sick leave during the current school year to the bank by signing a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up form to be given the Corporation Treasurer within ten (10) days of the beginning of school or have given two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, two (2) Board appointed members, days in previous years and a mutually agreed upon fifth member to chair, the employee will exhaust all of his/her accumulated sick leave for the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days as of July 1 can donate sick leave daysused any. b. Donations from a bargaining unit member The Certificated Employee must be in units of one (1) day, but no more than five (5) days total per recipient, provided that the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of have exhausted his own accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit member to whom the days are given Certificated Employee must personally have the catastrophic illness or injurya doctor's certification that such a request is necessary. d. If The Certificated Employee should submit the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirementrequest in advance of the expiration of his own accumulated, then the member can use the donated leave days until the disability retirement takes effectif at all possible. e. No more days can be given than needed by Unless a Certificated Employee joins within the bargaining unit member to serve out specified time, he is ineligible until the regular school year, and only that next school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. 3. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave committee shall be established to another bargaining unit member shall not count as consider applications for use of sick leave bank days. This committee shall consist of three (3) members appointed by the Association and three (3) appointed by the School Board and/or administration. The final decision concerning any allowance from the sick leave bank shall rest with the committee. A majority vote of the committee is required before affirmative action can be taken. 4. A Certificated Employee may use a maximum allowance of 90 days that can be used annually from the sick bank. The 90 days will be split into three (3) thirty (30) day periods. At the end of each 30 day period, the employee must submit a request for the purposes of calculating next 30-day period. Documentation is required with each request. To maintain eligibility into the non-use incentive paymentsick bank, a certificated employee must contribute two (2) sick days to the bank in the following school year when days are allotted. i. 5. The Association will defend and hold be notified of the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against decision of the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer daysCommittee when requests are made. j. A maximum 6. Days remaining at the end of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up to a maximum of 180 (one-hundred eighty) daysyear shall remain in the bank.

Sick Leave Bank. When in A sick leave bank shall be established by the judgment parties. Each administrator employed as of July 1 of each year shall contribute a bargaining unit member's physician and a yearly committee made up maximum of two (2) ▇▇▇▇ appointed members, days of their accumulated sick leave to the sick leave bank. The amount of sick leave to be contributed shall be established by the committee based upon current accumulation. The minimum contribution will be four hours. An administrator who commences employment with the System during a contract year shall not be a member of the sick leave bank until the administrator has contributed two (2) Board appointed members, and a mutually agreed upon fifth member days to chairthe bank on July 1. In the event an administrator has an insufficient number of sick leave days to contribute to the sick leave bank as of July 1, the employee will exhaust all administrator shall not be a member of his/her accumulated the bank that year. An administrator drawing sick leave for days from the remainder of the school year due to catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member, which does not include pregnancy or childbirth unless there are catastrophic consequences to the mother, and additional days are still needed, then he/she may request through the Superintendent that additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members' accumulated sick leave. The Association shall establish an internal policy to administer such a transfer. The Association shall notify the treasurer of the Board, in writing, of the number of days to be deducted, from whom, and the person receiving the transferred days. Included in the notice shall be a signed statement by the bargaining unit member involved authorizing the Board treasurer to transfer the days. The appropriateness of an application for disability retirement will be discussed with the affected member. These additional limitations will apply to this paragraph: a. No teacher who begins the school year with less than forty-five (45) days leave bank as of July 1 can donate will be eligible to continue to draw days from the bank until the maximum number of sick leave daysdays that may be withdrawn is reached. Administrators shall be entitled to utilize the sick leave bank on the following schedule: Up to 1 year continuous service 10 days per year Up to 3 years continuous service 20 days per year Up to 6 years continuous service 30 days per year Up to 10 years continuous service 45 days per year 10 years of more continuous service 60 days per year a. No administrator may draw more than sixty (60) days from the sick leave bank in any twelve month period. b. Donations Sick leave days may be drawn from the sick leave bank only after exhaustion of personal sick leave and only to cover a bargaining unit member must critical or long-term illness or injury. c. Sick leave shall be in units distributed from the sick leave bank after written application by an administrator and with the approval of a Sick Leave Bank Committee which is to be composed of one (1) day, but no more than five System representative and one (51) days total per recipient, provided that Administrative member of the donor not go below forty-five (45) days of accumulated sick leave. c. The bargaining unit from each college. The System representative will be an ex officio, non-voting member of the committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish and communicate to whom all members, criteria for the payment of sick leave days are given must personally have from the catastrophic illness or injurysick leave bank. The decision of the committee is final and not subject to the grievance procedure. d. If the bargaining unit member has applied for disability retirement, then the member can use the donated Sick leave days until may be accumulated in the disability retirement takes effect. e. No more days can be given than needed by the bargaining unit member to serve out the regular school year, and only that school year. f. The bargaining unit member must exhaust his/her own sick and personal leave first. g. The bargaining unit member who is using donated sick leave will not earn additional sick leave while receiving the donated leave days. h. A bargaining unit member's donation of sick leave to another bargaining unit member shall not count as use of sick leave for the purposes of calculating the non-use incentive payment. i. The Association will defend and hold the Board harmless against claims by a bargaining unit member against the Board relating to the Association's administration of sick leave transfer days. j. A maximum of 120 (one-hundred twenty) days can be received by any employee. In extenuating circumstances, the committee may approve additional days up bank to a maximum of 180 two hundred (one-hundred eighty200) days. When two hundred (200) days are accumulated as of July 1, contributions to the bank will not occur for that fiscal year. e. In the event that the sick leave bank has reached 200 day maximum and a new administrator is not able to contribute, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may authorize the new administrator to draw sick leave days from the bank. When the sick leave bank falls below 200 day maximum, all new non-contributing administrators who have drawn from the bank will each be required to contribute two days to the bank in addition to the contributions required of all other bank members.