REIMBURSEMENT OF MILEAGE, AND PERSONAL OR TRAVEL RELATED EXPENSES, AND TRAVEL TIME ALLOWANCE. When an employee is required by the Department to attend STC Post or Core training, the Probation Department will provide for reimbursement to the eligible employee for actual and reasonable costs incurred for overnight hotel accommodations, unless these costs have been pre-paid in advance by the Department. The employee will be reimbursed for overnight accommodation/lodging costs when the training is outside of Alameda County and the employee’s county of residence. The employee will be reimbursed for three meals a day for each 24-hour period of travel, for actual and reasonable costs (with receipts), or established per diem daily meal costs. Reimbursement for meals on partial days of travel or training will be made if the employee was traveling or at training during normal meal hours for that day. When meal costs are included as part of the accommodation costs, there will be no reimbursement to the employee. When no receipt is available or submitted, reimbursement will be at the County’s/Department’s established per diem rate. Employees will be reimbursed for meal costs when they are enrolled and attend training for STC Core or Annual training that occurs outside of Alameda County. Meals will not be reimbursed to the employee for any training that occurs within Alameda County. All costs will be reimbursed in accordance with established procedures, consistent with approved Department Administrative Policies and Procedures. Since training typically does not occur on Saturdays or Sundays, an employee attending such training may elect to commute to his or her home and back to the training site each weekend. Mileage costs and reasonable time necessary to travel between home and the training site during the commute will be paid to the extent that they exceed the employee's normal commute from home to his/her regular worksite. This option will be available each weekend only (i.e., from the training site on Friday afternoons and to the training site on Monday mornings) during the period of training. An employee who chooses to return home at the end of each training day, in lieu of accepting lodging accommodations during the training period, may claim mileage and related costs. The employee will be reimbursed for those mileage costs to the extent that they exceed his/her normal commute from home to his/her regular worksite. The employee, who chooses to return to his/her home on a daily basis during the core training period, will not be allowed to claim commute tim...
