Common use of Association Release Time Bank Clause in Contracts

Association Release Time Bank. Time Bank: Association members may donate vacation time, holiday time, and compensatory time off to an Association "time bank" under the following guidelines: 1. Only Association officers or bargaining team members may draw from the bank. 2. Requests to use time from the bank must be made reasonably in advance of the use and approval is subject to the operational necessity of the department. Further, the County is not required to grant time bank usage if to do so would result in overtime. 3. Time may be used for: a. Bargaining preparation. b. Association meetings. x. XXXXX related meetings. d. Releasing an employee representative to assist a member at the formal steps of the disciplinary and grievance procedures. 4. Except for disciplinary and grievance appeal meeting, the maximum hours of time bank use shall be forty (40) hours per calendar year, per individual. The County and Association have agreed upon the methodology for administering the time bank as set forth in Attachments B-1 and B-2.