Sick Leave and “PAID TIME OFF” Leave. A. All administrators absent from duty because of personal illness, injury, or other approved personal reasons shall be allowed full pay for eleven (11) work days during each school year. Unused sick days will be accumulated from one (1) school year to the next. Association members agree to accept the temporary responsibility to cover another building during periods of absence by the regular school administrator, as assigned by the Central Administration. New principals hired to the district will be given 20 sick days their first year of employment if they start in July or August. The 20 days will be prorated after August. The 20 days can be carried over into their next year as a part of their sick day bank. The following school year, administrators will receive the contractual amount (eleven (11) days) noted in Article VIII, Section 5A.
B. The Board of Education reserves the right to require a physician's statement upon return from absence because of illness or injury.
C. The administrator shall file (immediately upon return from any absence) with the Superintendent a written report, on a form furnished by the Board of Education, setting forth the reason for absence.
D. Administrators may use sick leave and paid time off days (PTO) for the following reasons:
1. Personal illness or injury
2. Illness, injury, or death in the immediate family - not to exceed five (5) days in any one school year, unless special approval is granted by the Superintendent. Such requests shall be made in writing. A reply shall be made within five (5) days after receipt of such request.
E. An administrator shall be not be allowed to use more than six (6) paid time off (PTO) days during the ‘181 teacher obligation day period’ each year. Days must be submitted in writing for pre-approval by the administrator’s immediate supervisor (assistants to building principal) and Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources will be responsible for final approval and the collection of PTO day requests for all administrators covered by this agreement.
F. A Crisis Sick Leave Extension is established to cover emergency situations where an administrator faces an extended disability period with an inadequate sick leave accumulation due to the same or a directly related disability. After receiving written application by an administrator who has exhausted his/her own sick leave days through a total 30 day period (including all use of existing vacation an...
