Common use of Sick Leave Bank Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one who, within the first thirty (30) days day of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank until becoming will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the following year. 4Sick Leave Bank rules. Present Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by following the procedure in paragraph a Committee of two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted ) teachers selected by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) UNION and must be supported by a written request one administrator selected by the contributing individual Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return withdrawals to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee Committee shall consider establish its rules and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submittedregulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and any grants made, are in accordance with all cases the provisions of this contract. 8decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The school district shall notify certificated employees total number of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) accumulative days in the bank at shall not exceed two times the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysmembers of the bargaining unit.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to1. To afford the maximum protection against a prolonged illness, the following Sick Leave Bank shall be established and hereby establishes each teacher shall participate as follows: a. To qualify for the Sick Leave Bank, a voluntary teacher must be employed in the District for a period of two (2) years. At the time a teacher becomes eligible for the Bank, such teacher shall contribute one (1) sick leave bank day to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave the bank. b. When the Sick Leave Bank balance falls below thirty-five (35) days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of Board will assess each teacher one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave days. One hundred percent (100%) of the teachers are required to participate, except those that are presently drawing from the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodSick Leave Bank. c. A Review Board will be established to grant or suspend sick days from the Bank. Its judgment and/or decisions will be final. The Review Board will consist of one (1) member of the Pinconning Area School Board or its representative, and two (2) members of the Pinconning Area Education Association. Under no circumstances shall a teacher serving on the Review Board be involved in reviewing his/her own application. In such a case, the Association will select an interim representative. The parties acknowledge that information obtained during the review process is confidential and must not be disclosed to persons not having an interest in the review process. In no event shall information of a private character be disclosed without the express written consent of the person to whom the information relates. Any records utilized during the review process containing medical information shall be kept in a separate file and remain strictly confidential. d. Upon depletion of a teacher's own accumulated sick leave, he/she must file an application to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The illness must be for three (3. A person shall cease ) consecutive days to be eligible for withdrawals unless it is related to a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any previous prolonged illness. e. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming Bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member of the following yearBank. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish f. If it appears that an individual is abusing the above policy, the Review Board may direct said individual to become “contributing individuals” may do so be examined by following a doctor of the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after Review Board's choosing to determine if the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodillness is valid. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving g. At no pay time, as long as this is in the teacher has exhausted all accumulated Contract, will the Pinconning Area Education Association ask the Board of Education to contribute any sick days. h. The Sick Leave Review Board will consider all applications within the following guidelines: (1) Upon approved application, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days withdrawals may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time made for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject up to the approve balance of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher but in no case event will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms withdrawal exceed two-thirds (2/3) of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the (2) A teacher who is receiving worker’s compensation payments may use accumulated sick leave bank may to supplement worker’s compensation payments in an amount not to exceed the teacher’s annual salary. (3) The Sick Leave Bank cannot be used for maternity elective or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancycosmetic surgery. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. a. The school corporation Board agrees toto the establishment of a Sick Leave Bank. In the event that there appear to be mitigating circumstances that require discussion, the Bank shall be administered by a committee consisting of an equal number of Association members and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1Board designees. The sick leave bank shall apply be established to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member provide for salary payments for members of the bargaining unit to which this contract applieswho have a catastrophic illness/disability and whose accumulated sick leave is exhausted. The bank may also be used in case of a catastrophic illness experienced by a teacher’s children or spouse that requires the presence of the teacher whose accumulated sick leave is exhausted. (Maternity leave shall not be considered "catastrophic illness/disability.") The definition of "catastrophic/illness disability" shall be mutually agreed upon by the Association and Board. 2b. The total number of days in the bank shall be capped at 200 in any single year. A “contributing individual” is Any unused days remaining in the bank at the end of the year will not be carried over into the subsequent year (i.e., a new supply of days must be donated each year). c. Teachers may voluntarily contribute one whosick leave day to the bank by September 15 of the school year. Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section b herein, within should the first thirty total days in the bank fall below ten during the course of a school year, the bank may be reopened for additional voluntary contributions of one day per unit member, not to exceed the 200-day limit. d. Under no circumstances may a teacher receive more than seventy-five (3075) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to from the bank, or from a combination of personally accumulated sick leave and sick leave bank and an individual may days. Teachers who do not contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person the bank shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave seek grant days from the bank. A teacher may not be granted more days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member than are necessary for that teacher to meet the following year90-calendar day elimination period for the LTD plan. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following e. Each sick bank day shall be paid at 100% of the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodteachers per diem salary. 5. Use f. The Board, at its expense, shall have the right to secure an independent medical verification of the sick leave teacher's condition. g. The rules governing the procedures of the bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted mutually agreed upon by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual Association and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to workBoard. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation and hereby establishes the Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association agree to the establishment of a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with (hereafter “Bank”) under the following provisions. Please see : A) Membership in the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply Bank will be voluntary and open to all persons employed by certified employees of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation. New employees, and those employees hired after the beginning of the school corporation whose employment requires year shall have the holding of a license issued by opportunity to enter the Indiana Department of Educationprogram, whether or not any such person is a member providing the employee submits the proper authorization within sixty (60) calendar days of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2first day of employment. A “contributing individual” is one who, Current employees may join the Bank within the first thirty (30) calendar days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year by submitting the proper authorization form (Appendix F). B) Days placed in which the Bank shall not be reclaimed. Unused days will be carried over to the next school year. C) Each participant shall contribute one (1) sick leave bank benefits are requested and usedday each year. However, have accumulated should the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days in the Bank drop below twenty-five (25) days during the year, each participant will be required to contribute one (1) additional day to the Bank to continue eligibility. This requirement is waived for any participant who does not have a sick or personal day available to contribute at the time the request is made. In such an instance, one (1) day shall be deducted from the following year’s sick leave bank in any single year day’s allowance. Voluntary Sick Bank Committee 1) The Bank will be operated on a voluntary basis. A committee shall be formed to administer the Bank and to provide the information whereby the business office of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation will keep the records. This committee shall be empowered to adopt rules and regulations and to make decisions required to administer the Sick Leave Bank, so long as followsthose rules, regulations and decisions do not modify the agreement contained herein. This committee will be titled the “Voluntary Sick Bank Committee” (hereafter referred to as the SBC). The SBC shall be composed of the following five (5) persons: (1a) 0Superintendent of Schools of the Rising Sun-10: Up Ohio County Community School Corporation or his/her designee. (b) The Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association president or his/her designee. (c) One Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation Business office or building level administrator. This member is to 60 days be appointed by the Superintendent of Schools of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation. (d) Two bargaining unit members. These members are to be appointed by the Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association president. Effort should be made with these appointments to provide bargaining unit representation from the elementary, middle and secondary levels. 2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (Should a vacancy occur on the SBC, a replacement for the vacant position shall be appointed by the authority making the original appointment. 3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion One of the Sick Bank Review Committeethree bargaining unit SBC representatives will be selected to act as chairperson of the SBC. The Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association president will designate the chairperson prior to the first meeting of the SBC. 6. Should D) Days granted from the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school yearBank can only be used for extended illness or disability of only the participating member, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of only after he/she has used three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and uncompensated sick leave days. (The Sick Bank Committee will generally consider an extended illness one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.involves ten

Sick Leave Bank. ‌ A. The school corporation agrees to, District and hereby establishes a voluntary the Association recognize the need for an available pool of sick leave days upon which eligible employees having experienced unusual or catastrophic personal illness or injuries may draw. B. Employees with at least twelve (12) consecutive months of employment with the dis- trict may enroll in the sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a each fiscal year by voluntarily contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of accrued sick leave to the sick bank by October 1st of the current fiscal year, to be deducted on the first payroll in October. All days donated are irretrievable. Days contrib- uted by employees who leave bank the District shall remain in the bank. C. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of four members: The Director of Hu- man Resources, one member appointed by the Superintendent and two members ap- pointed by the Association to include one certified employee and one classified employee. The first charge of the committee will be to develop criteria for approving a participating employee’s application for use of the Sick Leave Bank, the reassessment procedure and timelines within which reassessment will occur, and determining the minimum balance required for the Sick Leave Bank to operate. 1. To qualify for Sick Leave Bank assistance, an employee must require ex- tended hospitalization or home confinement due to a catastrophic illness or disa- bility. a. Catastrophic illness is defined an illness not consistent with ordinary illness including, but not limited to cancer, heart attack, stroke or major surgery. b. Disability is defined as an illness, accident or injury disabling an individual may from employment. 2. If the Sick Leave Bank balance is 1800 or higher at the start of the school year, only new members of the Sick Leave Bank will be required to contribute up a day of sick leave. If it is below 1800 hours, all members will be required to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodcon- tribute a day. 3. A person shall cease If the Sick Leave Bank drops to below 500 hours during the year, each mem- ber of the Sick Leave Bank will be required to contribute an additional day. If a contributing individual Sick Leave Bank member does not have a day to contribute, the member will re- tain sick leave bank membership and reimburse the sick leave day as soon as one is accrued. D. Upon exhaustion of all accumulated sick leave, a member of the Bank who has expe- rienced unusual or catastrophic illness or injury to self or an immediate family member, may apply to the Committee for assistance from the Bank. The Committee initially may award up to ten (10) days to an applicant after the applicant has exhausted all accumu- lated sick leave. If the illness or disability persists, the Committee may, upon the failure request of such individual the applicant, award up to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick ten (10) additional leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4Bank. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, Employees shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of awarded more than twenty (20) days from the sick Bank during a given year unless an extended leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up is necessary due to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion a grave illness of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6employee or a member of the employee’s immediate family, or the death of a member of one of the employee’s immediate family, or the death of a member of one of the employee’s immediate family members, which includes spouse, child or parents. Should the sick leave bank fall to The maximum allowable days within a thirty (30given year for any reason(s) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days. E. Applications to the Committee shall be in writing and must include a physician’s state- ment and the anticipated date of return to work.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A “Sick Leave Bank” shall be maintained whereby all Administrators may “deposit” one day of the sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused they are entitled each year. Administrators who have used up the sick leave daysto which they are entitled may apply to draw on the bank. The bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four members, two designated by the BSC and two designated by the BEU. The operation of the bank and withdrawals there from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, shall be carried out in accordance with the following provisions. Please see guidelines: A. All deposits to the definitions of sick leave under Article IVSick Leave Bank are to be voluntary. 1B. An administrator shall be enrolled in the Bank unless s/he provides written notice (or via e-mail) of her/his election not to join the Bank to the Human Resources Director by October 15th. The sick leave Such employee’s “opt-out” of the Bank shall continue from year to year unless s/he provides written notice (or via e-mail) to join the Bank to the Human Resources Director by October 15th of a subsequent year. Any such subsequent joining of the Bank shall be considered the 1st year of membership under section K of Article 5. C. Any administrator joining the staff after the opening of school will be enrolled in the Bank unless s/he indicates in writing (or via e-mail) to the Human Resources Director within 30 days of initial employment that s/he does not wish to join the Bank. D. Only those who deposit to the bank shall apply may be permitted to all persons employed withdraw from the bank. E. All requests for withdrawal from the bank must be accompanied by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued reason and approved by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In F. The number of days requested from the even a teacher is disabled as a result bank must be specified at the time of illness or injury initial request. G. Any request for extension of a different nature during days after the same school year, any additional sick leave initial request from the bank time granted is subject to approval of will be reviewed by the Sick Leave Bank Review CommitteeCommittee and granted accordingly. c. H. The Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written Bank Committee may request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying an attending physician's statement regarding the nature of the illness of the applicant and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to workanticipated period of absence. d. Days taken I. The borrower is required to repay 25% of the number of days. This amount may be adjusted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee dependent upon the total days available in the bank. J. No days may be withdrawn from the sick leave bank shall apply only Sick Leave Bank for use by any reason other than illness. Days may not be withdrawn to those permit an administrator to stay at home for other members of a family. In the event of a new contract and/or an extension of the existing one, the balance of days on which a teacher would receive pay if in the teacher were not under disabilitySick Leave Bank are to be carried over to succeeding contracts. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from X. During the sick leave bank so that a teacher first year of membership in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall the Sick Leave Bank, an administrator may not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives withdraw more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays60 days per school year. During the second year of membership in the Sick Leave Bank, if any, shall an administrator may not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank withdraw more than 90 days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular per school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. In the event an employee has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave and, upon notification by the Office of the Treasurer of the advance of five days from the District, as per Ohio Revised Code, the employee will, prior to actual use, contact the Association for approval of borrowing days from the Sick Leave Bank. Upon written approval from the Association’s Executive Committee, the District shall advance days from the Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes individual can request annually up to twenty (20) days of additional sick leave from the days of sick leave that have been deposited in the District Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank may accumulate donated days to a voluntary maximum of one hundred ten (110) days. 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 be paid back after all days have been paid back to which certificated persons the District. In the event that an individual leaves the District with a negative balance of sick days, the teacher 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 a day or days to the bank. Each bargaining unit member may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated Sick Leave Bank during any the enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to The enrollment period will be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use first workday of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal daysyear through September 15 of each year. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of New teachers hired after the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, has commenced shall have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) days to enroll. The donated day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7is not returnable. A donated day guarantees a bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period membership for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within length of employment. Should the first five (5) school days number of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) donated days in the Sick Leave Bank drop below ten (10 days), sick leave bank members will be required to donate an additional day. A written application is required for approval of days. A doctor's excuse may be requested. The member who borrows days will pay back the days at the time rate of open enrollment50% of his/her annual accumulated sick leave at the end of the salary contract year, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below each year until the previously described total number of thirty (30) daysdays borrowed has been restored to the bank.

Sick Leave Bank. A. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary purpose of sick leave bank benefits is to which certificated persons may contribute unused provide compensable leave coverage to teachers who are absent due to extended disability because of personal illness or injury. B. Teachers shall become eligible to receive sick leave bank benefits when they have been absent ten (10) consecutive school days and they have exhausted all of their personal sick leave days. C. An eligible teacher shall receive his/her contractual rate of pay while disabled for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days, with committee review every twenty (20) days. D. Applications for sick leave bank benefits shall be made in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee through the superintendent and shall include medical verification of disability. The superintendent shall convene the committee as soon as possible. When a determination is made, the applicant will be informed in writing with copies to the superintendent, business manager, and from which a contributing individual may draw committee members. The administration office shall do all paperwork and record keeping. E. No applicant will be denied less days than she/he has contributed. A record of each teacher’s contribution shall be maintained by the administration office. F. All sick leave days when loaned to an eligible teacher shall be returned to the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with bank by the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1teacher. The sick leave bank teacher shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave pay back to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up three (3) days per year from each year worked until all days borrowed are repaid to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3the bank. Payment shall begin at the end of the year in which the teacher returns to work. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any teacher who has less than three (3) days accumulated sick leave at the end of the school year will pay to the sick bank those days from available. If the teacher resigns or retires prior to payment in full, reimbursement to the school district will be made at the rate of substitute teacher pay. The school district will then repay the borrowed days to the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearbank. 4. Present G. To establish and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against continue the sick leave bank, but the following procedures shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract.followed: h. Sick leave 1. The bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to capped at a maximum number of days from three hundred (300) days. In the sick leave event the bank in any single year as follows: is depleted to one hundred fifty (1150) 0-10: Up to 60 days days, each bargaining unit member shall contribute two (2) 11-40: Up additional days to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. the bank. Teachers may contribute additional days to the bank for the duration of this agreement. H. This bank will be awarded fewer than maximum days administered by two (listed in Section j2) at the discretion representatives of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested Board and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed teachers designated by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractAssociation. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Starting in School year 2023-2024 there shall be a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1Sick Leave Bank. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be comprised of four (4) members. The President of the LEA Professional Association shall appoint two (2) members. The Executive Director of the Shore Collaborative shall appoint two members. The bank shall be administered in accordance with the guidelines of this article. One of the Association representatives shall serve as Chair of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. All leaves must be approved by the Executive Director/designee, and adhere to statutory requirements for FMLA, and Shore policies and procedures. Before being eligible to draw on the sick leave bank, staff on approved leaves must exhaust all current and accumulated sick leave, with the following exception: a professional who through illness anticipates they will exhaust all available sick, and personal leave may apply ten (10) days prior to exhaustion of his/her sick leave. Staff who meet these criteria may apply in writing to draw on the “bank”. This bank may be used to cover any absence that is covered by FMLA. There will be a limit of 10 days from the bank to cover Parental Leave for a new child. Members will have had to contribute 1 day prior to September 1st of the school corporation whose employment requires year to be elidable during that school year. The bank may not be used to supplement short-term and long-term disability. The initial request from the holding of a license issued by bank shall not exceed thirty (30) days. After the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is initial request has been exhausted a member of can file up to fifteen (15) additional days. All requests from the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first bank shall not exceed thirty (30) days in any one request and each member may draw up to a total of forty-five (45) in a school year. Three votes shall be needed to refuse or grant a sick bank request. Authorization or refusal for bank days must be in writing and signed by the Chair of the contract year, signs a contribution formSick Leave Bank Committee. Such contribution form The Executive Director shall require the assigning of one (1) day bring any suspected case of sick leave bank abuse before the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Should the Sick Leave Bank Committee, by majority vote of those present and voting, determine that an abuse pattern does exist the matter will be remanded back to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up Executive Director. Should the Executive Director take disciplinary action such action shall be subject to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3review under the just cause provision of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. A person shall cease Each bargaining unit member who wishes to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual eligible to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure participate in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days contribute two (2) 11-40: Up days of their unused sick leave to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) the bank at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days start of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) Each day contributed will be subtracted from that educator’s individual sick leave. An additional donation will be made whenever the total number of days remaining in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of is reduced to thirty (30) days. There can be no more than one request for additional donations per year.

Sick Leave Bank. Section 1: The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Board will recognize a voluntary sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when be administered by the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with Association pursuant to the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVlimitations specified below. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. Section 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first : Within thirty (30) school days after the beginning of the contract school year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of any teacher may elect to donate one (1) day of his/her annual sick leave credit to the Sick Leave Bank. No teacher can donate more than one sick day to the Sick Leave Bank except as permitted in Section 4 of this Article. A teacher’s election shall be irrevocable. New teacher donation of sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank is covered in sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodpolicy. Section 3: Any teacher who has used up his/her sick leave and who is absent from work a further three (3) school days because of personal illness or physical disability, and who is not receiving any public funds or benefits derived from public funds as partial or full compensation shall be eligible to apply for sick leave bank credits. A person The Association’s Sick Leave Bank Committee shall cease to be a contributing individual upon have the failure full responsibility in granting, denying, or suspending grants of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the bank, provided, however, the Board shall refuse sick leave bank until becoming payments if it determines that a contributing member grantee becomes ineligible as a results of the following yearstated limitations. If approved, the committee may grant the requested days, including the retroactive pay for the initial three (3) days missed prior to application. 4A. Administrative provisions to implement this Article shall be mutually agreed to between the Board and the Association. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” Should the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank fall below one hundred fifty (150) days, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two request one (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period1) additional day from each teacher. 5B. If the Sick Leave Bank drops below on the hundred fifty (150) days, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may request (1) additional day for each teacher. Use o Due to reasons of COVID, and a potential greater need for days used, if a teacher does not have a day to donate into the sick leave bank shall be subject Sick Leave Bank, another teacher may elect to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall donate one (1) additional day. This day will be used on a to retain the affected teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as membership in the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all Sick Leave Bank. o A bi-annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve accounting of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject must be provided to approval SACS Administration on December 1 and June 1 of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave Section 5: All requests for payment to individuals from the sick leave bank may not Sick Leave Bank shall be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of substantiated by a pregnancystatement from the medical doctor involved. j. Teachers who, as of Section 6: The Sick Leave Bank chairperson may meet with the beginning of administration to verify the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days used from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) Sick Leave Bank at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days end of each school yearsemester. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. a. The school corporation agrees toCatastrophic Sick Leave Bank (CSLB) is designed to assist employees who have exhausted their sick days due to catastrophic illness or injury. b. CFEA members may voluntarily join the CSLB during the enrollment period below; long-term substitutes are not eligible. c. CFEA members may contribute one sick day to the CSLB. d. All contributions to the CSLB must be made on the Catastrophic Sick Leave Bank Contribution form and submitted to the Treasurer. The enrollment period thereafter will be from January 15th to February 15th of each year of the contract. The District shall send out an annual notice to bargaining unit members of the open enrollment period. The notice shall indicate employee eligibility and the number of aggregate days in the bank. e. When the CSLB contains fewer than 100 days, members will be notified in writing and an open contribution/enrollment period will be determined by the CFEA President. f. Days contributed to the CSLB will be deducted and reflected on the first payroll in March. g. Once a sick day has been contributed to the CSLB, it cannot be returned to the member. h. The CSLB will be administered by a committee composed of the CFEA President or designee, one member of the CFEA Executive Board, the Superintendent of Schools or designee, and hereby establishes the Treasurer. i. Any CFEA member who has contributed a voluntary sick leave bank day to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and the CSLB is eligible to request days from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with CSLB if (s)he meets the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV.criteria: 1. The All of the member’s sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesexhausted. 2. A “contributing individual” The member’s absence is one whodue to personal catastrophic illness, within accident resulting in recovery from long-term injuries, or the first thirty (30) days catastrophic illness/accident of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodspouse or child. 3. A person shall cease The member has submitted to be a contributing individual upon the failure Treasurer written medical verification of such individual to sign such contribution form the condition and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearexpected recovery period. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodThe member is not receiving any form of workmen’s compensation or disability pay. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject j. When written requests are made to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave CSLB accompanied by the appropriate documentation, the CSLB committee shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need meet to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review discuss the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns A member may request up to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional 30 days shall be deducted subject to the approve of from the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular one school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Review CommitteeCommittee will be final and are not eligible for the grievance process. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution l. All records will be requested kept confidential and will count toward not affect the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days member’s status in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysgroup health insurance.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary a. Employees covered under this contract may contribute one (1) sick leave bank day per year to which certificated persons may other employees who are eligible as provided in paragraph 3. On or before September 10, the Employee shall notify the Superintendent or designee of their intention to contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw leave. b. There will be no carryover of donated sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated from year to year. Donated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with will not be returned to the following provisions. Please see the definitions of donor. c. Donated sick leave under Article IV. days will be available only to those employees who: (1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of have donated at least one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five bank, (52) total have used all of their paid leave days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any (sick leave days from and personal leave days), (3) have not yet met the elimination period for long term disability insurance and (4) have a serious illness, or an injury that requires hospitalization or long-term care. Donated sick leave days will not be available to an employee on a day to day basis, that is, donated sick leave days will not be available for brief absences such as one or two days. d. Requests for the use of donated sick leave days will be submitted on a form provided by the District to a committee of three representatives: one Human Resources representative and two representatives appointed by the Association. The decision of whether to provide donated sick leave benefits to an employee and the number of donated sick leave days to allocate to the employee shall be made by the committee. Up to twenty-five (25) donated sick leave days per year will be allocated to each eligible participant. If an employee’s absence which is eligible for sick leave bank usage exceeds the twenty-five (25) days and if there are days remaining in the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member at the following end of the school year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure , then any days remaining in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall at the end of the school year may be subject allocated to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used employees on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as pro-rata basis with approval of the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal dayscommittee. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for If in any given year the sick bank committee is depleted and there are qualified employees in need of days, the Association Co- Presidents may discuss with Administration the need to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from reopen the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the additional sick leave donations from employees who have previously donated to the bank so in that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school same year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank It shall apply be the policy of the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School Committee to all persons employed by establish a Sick Leave Bank, the school corporation whose employment requires purpose of which shall be to enable the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member members of the bargaining unit covered by the current working agreement between the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School Committee and the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Education Association to which this contract appliesvoluntarily contribute a portion of their sick leave accumulation for use by a participating member whose sick leave accumulation is exhausted through prolonged illness. 2. A “contributing individual” Eligibility for membership in the Sick Leave Bank is gained by: a. Agreement by an applicant to contribute one who, within earned sick leave day to the first bank. This agreement must be in written form. b. Application for membership is through the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Education Association Sick Leave Bank Committee via the President of the Association. c. The initial list of participating members shall be posted not later than thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve implementation of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even Leave Bank, and a teacher is disabled supplementary list will be posted as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to workrequired. d. Days taken from Applications for membership to the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but Bank may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number made upon completion of thirty (30) working days. e. A participating member is one who has contributed an earned day, and remains a member until such time as the Bank is depleted. f. Payments from the Sick Leave Bank are made on a teaching workday basis. g. The bank will be considered depleted if its number of days on deposit goes down to one- third (1/3) of the number of participants. Then all participants will be assessed an additional day. h. Anyone using sick days from the bank should make every effort to pay back to the bank the days they have taken. Arrangements for repayment shall be made through the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 3. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of- a. One member of the Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School Committee; b. Two

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A sick leave bank shall be established to which certificated persons 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 contribute unused sick leave days, be used only by the individual contributor for their own illness/disability. The purpose of the Bank is not to provide compensation for extended disabilities. All members are urged to participate in the corporation approved disability and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when income protection plans and to utilize available salary schedule fringe benefits to offset plan costs. Guidelines for administration of the individual’s annual Sick Leave Bank shall be incorporated in the administration guidelines and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance bargaining agreement with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVteachers. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to Sick Leave Bank will be established for the voluntary participation of all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member teaching and administrative personnel of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesMonroe 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 “contributing individual” is one who, within member will be defined as a teacher or administrator who has made at least the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a required minimum initial contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave days to the sick 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 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) days 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 an individual 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, a retiring teacher may contribute donate up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodof their accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. 36. A person shall cease Opportunity for enrollment will be extended in the following manner: a. All new teachers will be allowed to be a enroll by contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any two (2) sick leave days from per year until the contribution level called for in paragraph 3 is reached. New employees will have a period of seven (7) weeks subsequent to their first day of employment to join. Teachers electing not to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must sign two (2) copies of a waiver, one to be kept on file with the Corporation and one sent to the Association. A list of those new hires not yet enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank, including those who have signed the waiver, will be forwarded to the Association president by September 15th of each school year with the understanding that the Association will contact these teachers. Teachers who signed a waiver may rescind the waiver and join the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearprovided it is done within seven (7) weeks subsequent to their first day of employment. 4b. Teachers returning to service after resignation or leave of absence who were not under contract after October 15, 1980, may join under the same conditions as a new employee. c. An opportunity for enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank will be extended to all non- members between the beginning of the 2004-05 school year and October 1, 2004. Present and new faculty Non- members who wish enroll in the Bank under this subsection waive the right to become “contributing individuals” may do so claim Sick Leave Bank assistance for pre-existing conditions as defined by following the procedure MCCSC health insurance plan (conditions existing within the six [6] month period prior to enrollment) until the Non-member has been in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall for two (2) years. [See also: paragraph 3 above] 7. The Human Resources Office will maintain a record of the total number of days in the Bank based on these voluntary contributions. This deduction will come from the individual's sick leave days no later than October 15. 8. Any participating member who has exhausted accumulated sick leave and who has also used three (3) uncompensated sick leave days will be subject eligible to apply to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall Leave Bank committee. The number of days granted to any member during any school year will be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay limited as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. follows: Years of Service Number of Days may need Days in any Four- to MCCSC Per Year Year Period 10 or less 50 100 11 & over 70 140 Applications will be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject made in writing to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall Committee and will be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported accompanied by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying physician's statement describing the nature of the illness and prognosis report disability. Application for a grant may be made by a personal representative of the teacher’s return applicant in cases where the individual participant is unable to work. d. Days taken from the do so. Extension of sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which will not be granted beyond the period when a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall could be eligible to draw up to receive benefits of the School Corporation’s long-term disability program. 9. After a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion member of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. 6. Should has drawn a total of days equal to the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school yeartotal required contribution from the pool, an additional contribution the member will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and repay one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests full sick leave day for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.every two

Sick Leave Bank. a. Each employee, to be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank, shall notify the Business Manager, in writing, by the 1st day of the current school year. Employees who choose not to participate at this time will not be eligible for the current school year. To become eligible each employee will contribute two days of sick leave the first year and one sick leave day in the second year. If the eligible employee withdraws from the bank the first year, to remain eligible they will donate one additional sick leave day at the start of the next school term. b. To be eligible to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank, staff participating in the Sick Leave Bank must have used all sick leave (current and accumulated) and personal leave. c. The school corporation agrees tomaximum number of sick leave days the sick leave assistance committee may provide to a participant per year is 20 days. Additional days may be granted if participant is unable to return to work, the leave is supported by a physician’s written statement, the leave request does not jeopardize the potential need from other participants, and hereby establishes a voluntary the bank would support additional leave. All requests from the sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused will be on a first come first served basis. d. The sick leave daysassistance committee will be one member of the PG-ESP, one classified staff member from the High School/Middle School, one classified staff member from the Elementary, appointed by their respective groups for a two-year term, and the Superintendent. Committee recommendations will be made to the Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx Board of Education for approval. e. If all the days in the bank are used up prior to the end of the school year, the bank will cease to operate during the year and will begin anew in the next school year. Days not used at the end of each year will remain in the bank. f. Employees will request leave from which a contributing individual may draw the sick leave days when bank by submitting a written request to the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with committee. (For request form see Appendix B) g. Days granted to classified staff from the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be treated in the same manner by the school corporation whose employment requires District as the holding of a license issued sick leave days that have been granted by the Indiana Department of Education, whether District or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesthat has been accumulated. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within h. Employees who become disabled or retire will not be entitled to any days from the first thirty (30) days of sick leave bank. i. Days contributed to the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of plan cannot be withdrawn when an employee terminates membership. j. Employees who retire will be able to donate unused sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if they so motivated during any enrollment periodchoose. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary 1. A sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused will be established for use by members of the bargaining unit who have exhausted their own sick leave days, and from which have a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisionsprolonged and/or serious illness or injury. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVThis includes nurses (Unit C). 12. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a Each member of the bargaining unit shall contribute one day from her/his sick leave accumulation to which this contract appliesthe Sick Leave Bank in order to fund the bank. In the event the Sick Leave Bank becomes depleted, each member of the bargaining unit shall contribute a day from her/his sick leave accumulation to re-fund the bank. No more than two (2) sick leave bank days shall be deducted from teachers’ individual sick leave accounts in any one school year. Sick Leave Bank days unused in one school year shall be carried over to the next school year. At no point shall the bank contain more days than the number of unit members. 23. A “contributing individual” is one whoThe Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Board consisting of four members. Two members will be designated by the Superintendent to serve at its pleasure, within and two members shall be designated by the first Association to serve at its pleasure. Award of benefits from the bank require a majority vote of the full Board. 4. Any initial grant of sick leave by the Board shall not exceed thirty (30) days. If need continues, reapplication to the Board may be made for further extensions up to a maximum of thirty (30) days each. Except as provided hereafter in this paragraph, no more than ninety (90) days may be granted by the Sick Leave Bank Board to any individual for a single illness or accident. The Board agrees to give due consideration to those situations of unusual circumstances and for hardship arising from prolonged illness or accident when an employee’s accrued sick leave and ninety (90) days from the Bank have been exhausted. Such situations will be brought to the attention of the contract yearBoard by the Association only, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require whereupon the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual Board may contribute authorize up to an additional ninety (90) Sick Leave Bank days. 5. A teacher who has received a grant from the Sick Leave Bank will, upon her/his return to regular teaching duties, receive five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In in the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning remainder of the school year in which sick leave year. Days not used will be returned to the bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated on the following number last day of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committeeschool. 6. Should Subject to the provisions of this Article the Board shall utilize the following criteria in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave: a. Adequate medical evidence, including diagnosis and prognosis, or serious and/or prolonged illness or injury and expected date of return. This information shall remain confidential with the Sick Leave Bank Board. b. Prior utilization of sick leave bank fall to shall be a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment periodfactor if abuse has been shown. 7. A The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee Board with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be formed final and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by binding and not subject to appeal except for reconsideration to the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractBoard itself. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and is established for use by bargaining unit members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave and who have catastrophic and/or extended illness. The bank shall be established by a mandatory contribution of four (4) days are exhaustedof accumulated sick leave from each member and maintained at a minimum of four days per member after the first year of institution. Additional contributions shall be made as necessary. Upon retirement, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions a member's contributions of sick leave under Article IVdays made to the bank less any days taken from the bank shall be returned to his accumulated credit for the purpose of computing compensation for unused sick leave. Such days shall not be returned if an individual has accrued 240 sick days. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is 24.2.10.1 When a member has a catastrophic and/or extended illness which has exhausted his sick leave, and has subsequently used up to a maximum of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of vacation time (if accumulated) 24.2.10.2 The sick leave bank shall be administered by a Committee consisting of four members designated by the contract yearBoard to serve at its discretion and four members designated by the Union to serve at its discretion. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine a member's eligibility for use of the bank and the amount of leave to be granted, signs a contribution formconsidering his presentation of adequate medical evidence of catastrophic and/or extended illness and his prior utilization of all accrued sick leave. Such contribution form The decision of this Committee regarding eligibility and entitlement shall require the assigning of one (1) day be final and binding and not subject to grievance or appeal. 24.2.10.3 The initial granting of sick leave by the Committee to an eligible member shall not exceed thirty (30) work days. Upon completion of the thirty (30) work day period, the period of entitlement may be extended by the Committee upon the applicant's demonstration of need. 24.2.10.4 Members of the bargaining unit hired before July 1, 2001, and not participating in the Alternate Retirement Plan, may receive grants from the sick leave bank up to a total of 120 consecutive work days per occurrence. 24.2.10.5 Members participating in the Alternate Retirement Plan and/or members hired on or after July 1, 2001, may receive grants from the sick leave bank up to a total of 120 consecutive work days per occurrence, but no more than a lifetime total of 180 work days. 24.2.10.6 Members may donate vacation time to the sick leave bank and for a particular member who has exceeded the 120 consecutive work day limit for an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodoccurrence or for a member who has exceeded the 180 work day lifetime total. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon 24.2.10.7 Members exhausting their benefits under the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from bank 24.2.10.8 As the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member is used, the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following Committee shall determine the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for replenish it and shall request the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice deduction of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractSection 24.2.10. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The 1. Continued membership in the Sick Leave Bank will be automatic unless the employee opts out within ten (10) working days of the initial date of employment or the first ten (10) working days of any school corporation agrees toyear. Employees who opt out of the Bank are ineligible to use the Bank. Temporary employees are not eligible for membership in the Bank. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank will require an initial contribution of one (1) sick leave day per employee. (Revised 1999, 2003) 2. Sick leave days in the Bank will carry over from school year to school year, and hereby establishes an additional contribution will not be required until the beginning of the semester following a voluntary drop in the total number of sick leave bank days in the Bank to below 300 days, at which certificated persons may contribute unused time an additional contribution of one (1) sick leave day per employee will be made to replenish the Bank's sick leave days. Employees who opt out of the contribution to the Bank will be dropped from the program. (Revised 1995, 2003) 3. The Bank will be administered by the Sick Leave Committee. The Committee will be composed of members appointed by the Association to include the GEA Executive Board and from which a contributing individual may draw an administrative representative appointed by the Superintendent. The following conditions will govern the granting of sick leave days when from the individualBank: (Revised 2000, 2003) a. An employee may request days from the Bank only for that employee’s annual injuries/illnesses. (To request days needed as a result of the injuries/illnesses of family and/or significant others, see the provision identified under Sick Leave Donation.) An employee may not request days from the Sick Leave Bank for a work related illness or accident paid by worker’s compensation. (Revised 1995) b. Application for benefits from the Bank must be made in writing. Application forms will be available from the Finance Department or the Association. A copy of the completed form will be kept on file with the Finance Department. A doctor’s statement specifying the nature of the illness or injury, possible days absent, extensiveness of treatment, and accumulated the anticipated date of release to return to work to fulfill their contract obligations and essential functions of their job must be part of the application. The District may require a second opinion from a doctor of the District’s choosing and at the District’s expense. (Revised 1995, 1999, 2003) c. Sick Leave Bank days will not be granted until an employee has used all of his/her accrued and projected sick leave days are exhaustedand discretionary days. In order to access the bank for any event, in accordance with an employee must be absent for five (5) days for that event. The bank will not reimburse the following provisionsemployee for the initial five (5) days of absence. Please see the definitions of If an employee accesses Sick Leave Bank and/or sick leave under Article IV. 1. The donation, a maximum of one-day sick leave bank shall apply must be donated to all persons employed the Sick Leave Bank at the beginning of his/her next contract year. This does not eliminate the employee’s responsibility to donate as called for by the school corporation whose employment requires Sick Leave Bank committee. If the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or employee is not any such person is otherwise a member of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank, this donation does not entitle him/her to which this contract applies.membership. (Revised 1995, 1999, 2003) 2d. Not more than seventy (70) Sick Leave Bank days may be used by any one employee in any school year. A “contributing individual” is one who, within After the first thirty (30) days of Sick Leave Bank use and each twenty (20) days thereafter, the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled submit verification from his/her doctor that the illness or disabling condition continues and the anticipated date of release for return to draw any sick leave days from work. The committee has the sick leave bank until becoming right to request a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the requestsecond medical opinion or more information. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor denial, the employee has the right to take additional leave for request a hearing before the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve Association Board of Directors. The Association’s Board's decision is final. (Revised 2003) e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will provide copies of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee.requests to the Finance Department. (Revised 1995) b. In 4. The Association will report in writing the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval status of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for to the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used Finance Department at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested year, at semester break and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion end of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year. (Revised 1995) 5. The Association and the Sick Leave Bank Committee assume the full responsibility for the control of the Bank, an additional contribution and will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests responsible for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees actions as a result of the enrollment period for Bank operation. This totally precludes any form of action against the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within Board or any member of the first five (5) school days of each school yearadministration. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toSick Leave Bank (SLB) may only be used for catastrophic injury, and hereby establishes non-elective surgery, or illness of the employee or immediate family member that causes extended absence from work. Days may not be received from the Bank for absences due to child birth (natural or cesarean section). Allotments will be limited to participating employees as determined by the SLB committee. A maximum number of days that a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons person may contribute unused sick leave days, and withdraw from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave the SLB is forty (40) days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance while employed with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVBowling Green City Schools. A. General Procedures 1. The sick leave bank shall apply An application for an allotment from the Sick Leave Bank will be accepted only from those individuals who have contributed to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is Bank. An application will be considered only after a member has used all of his/her accumulated sick days. Allotment from the Sick Leave Bank will be made only for absences under a member’s normal duties contract. Allotments will not be made for absences in programs such as extra summer work, extended services, or any other part-time or second position held by a member with a full-time contract. Days may not be received from the Bank for absences due to disabilities which qualify the member for Workers Compensation personal benefits, unless the member has exhausted all such benefits and his/her own accumulated sick days. Days allotted from the Sick Leave Bank will be paid at 100% of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesmember’s daily rate of pay. 2. A doctor’s statement is required with the application in order for the request to be considered. The committee may request a second medical opinion at any time, at the Board’s cost and choice of physician. As a condition to such application, members agree in writing as follows: “contributing individual” is one who, within I specifically acknowledge and agree that the first thirty (30) granting of days from the SLB shall be at the sole discretion of the contract yearSLB committee. All decisions of the SLB committee will be final and binding and are not subject to grievance. I further agree to abide by such decision and to indemnify and hold harmless the SLB committee, signs the Ohio Association of Public School Employees Chapter #311 (OAPSE), and the Bowling Green City Schools.” 3. Allotments from the Sick Leave Bank shall commence on the eleventh consecutive day of absence for which a contribution formmember has no accumulated sick days, and shall be renewed, upon request from the member and approval of the SBC, each ten (10) day payroll period. B. Enrollment shall be during the month of September. Such contribution form New employees hired after the enrollment period in September will have four (4) weeks to enroll. To enroll, a member shall require the assigning of contribute one (1) accumulated sick day to the Sick Leave Bank. Days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank are non-returnable. SLB Days that are donated will be deducted from the donor’s number of severance days available for payment listed in Article 25. Enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank shall be continuous from year to year until a member withdraws. Withdrawals are accepted only during an enrollment period and only upon written notice by the member to the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SBC) of his/her intent to withdraw. Whenever the total number of available days in the Sick Leave Bank falls below fifteen (15), the SBC may request the Sick Leave Bank enrollees to donate up to one (1) additional day of their accumulated sick leave days to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodSick Leave Bank. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank C. Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year composed as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (. The Human Resources Administrator; 2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (. The Treasurer or his/her designee; and 3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) Two members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the SuperintendentOAPSE President. The committee SBC shall consider meet and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that and approve or deny all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with to the provisions of this contract. 8Sick Leave Bank. The school district SBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to the Bank and shall notify certificated employees Bank members of the enrollment period need for said contributions. The SBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within Sick Leave Bank to the first five (5) school days Treasurer. The SBC will communicate the approval or denial of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) SLB days in writing to the bank at requesting employee. Actions of the time of open enrollment, no contribution SBC will be necessary unless it falls below decided by a majority vote of the previously described number of thirty (30) daysSBC. In cases where there is a tie, the Superintendent will be the tie breaking vote.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, State and hereby establishes the Union agree to establish a voluntary Sick Leave Bank Committee who shall be responsible to administer a Sick Leave Bank in each bargaining unit covered by the Agreement. A separate sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused be established in a particular department by mutual Agreement. Those sick leave daysbank agreements that were in existence for individuals as of January 26, 2001 shall remain in existence until exhausted. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed of six members, three (3) of whom shall be appointed by the President of the Union and from which a contributing individual may draw 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. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee to grant sick leave bank days when shall be by majority vote, shall be final and shall not be subject to the individual’s annual grievance and accumulated arbitration provisions of the contract. The following provisions must be included in the rules and procedures adopted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee: A. The Committee must review the sick leave days are exhausted, utilization of any member of the Sick Leave Bank who applies for sick leave from the bank. Sick leave will not be granted to an applicant with evidence of prior sick leave abuse in accordance with the following provisionshis or her personnel file or attendance record. Please see the definitions Prior utilization of sick leave under Article IVdoes not by itself indicate sick leave abuse. 1. B. The Committee must require adequate evidence of catastrophic illness or injury, which is not job-related, of an employee only (not any family member). C. The maximum amount of sick leave bank 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. D. Employees may make contributions to the Sick Leave Bank on an “as needed” basis in order to meet the needs of the Sick Leave Bank and to eliminate the loss of unused donated time at the end of the calendar year. Employees must make contributions to the Sick Leave Bank on January 2 of each calendar year unless another date is determined by the Committee. Any employee who does not make a contribution to the Bank shall not be eligible to apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not Bank for any such person is a member sick leave. E. Members of the bargaining unit who wish to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within be eligible to apply to the first thirty Bank for sick leave shall contribute eight (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day 8) hours of sick leave if assigned to the sick leave bank a forty (40) hour work week and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number seven hours of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up if assigned to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows:thirty-five (35) hour work week. (1) 0-10: Up F. An employee who applies to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committeemust have used all available accrued and accumulated leave including vacation and personal leave. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. Section 1: The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Board will recognize a voluntary sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when be administered by the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with Association pursuant to the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVlimitations specified below. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. Section 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first : Within thirty (30) school days after the beginning of the contract school year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of any teacher may elect to donate one (1) day of his/her annual sick leave credit to the Sick Leave Bank. No teacher can donate more than one sick day to the Sick Leave Bank except as permitted in Section 4 of this Article. A teacher’s election shall be irrevocable. New teacher donation of sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank is covered in sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodpolicy. Section 3: Any teacher who has used up his/her sick leave and who is absent from work a further three (3) school days because of personal illness or physical disability, and who is not receiving any public funds or benefits derived from public funds as partial or full compensation shall be eligible to apply for sick leave bank credits. A person The Association’s Sick Leave Bank Committee shall cease to be a contributing individual upon have the failure full responsibility in granting, denying, or suspending grants of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the bank, provided, however, the Board shall refuse sick leave bank until becoming payments if it determines that a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines grantee becomes ineligible as original enrollment period. 5. Use a results of the sick leave bank shall be subject to stated limitations. If approved, the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as committee may grant the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick requested days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time including the retroactive pay for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of initial three (3) members appointed by days missed prior to application. Section 4: Administrative provisions to implement this Article shall be mutually agreed to between the exclusive representative Board and the Association. Should the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank fall below one hundred fifty (150) days, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may request one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all additional day from each teacher. Section 5: All requests for use of sick bank days payment to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance individuals from the Sick Leave Bank shall be substantiated by a statement from the medical doctor involved. Section 6: The Sick Leave Bank chairperson may meet with the provisions administration to verify the number of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of days used from the enrollment period for Sick Leave Bank at the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days end of each school yearsemester. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary purpose of the sick leave bank is to which relieve members of the certificated persons may staff from undue financial burden due to absence from work on a long-term basis due to illness or disability wherein their accumulated leave is exhausted. The Board will not contribute unused any days to the sick leave bank. Only members' actual days may be contributed to create the bank. Enrollment in the sick leave bank is open on an annual basis and shall be open until October 1. Enrollment forms will be available from the building principals. Membership in the bank will be open to all certificated school employees. A member shall be defined as a certificated school employee who has made a contribution of two days of their accumulated leave to the bank upon enrollment. When the sick leave bank drops below 150 days, and from which a contributing individual may draw each certificated member of the sick leave days when bank will be required to contribute one leave day to the individual’s annual and accumulated bank. The sick leave bank will be used for the teacher’s personal illness only. An individual member wishing to use the bank must wait at least two (2) working leave days without pay before use of the bank will be authorized under any of the above conditions; these days are exhaustednot reclaimable from the bank. An individual member may use two times the number of leave days he/she has contributed to the bank plus ten (10) extra days, except in accordance with the following provisionsextenuating circumstances when a waiver by the sick bank committee has been granted. Please see the definitions of Unused sick leave under Article IV. bank days will be carried over to the next school year. In the event the bank exhausts all days during the school year, the sick leave bank committee will contact participating members and request they contribute one (1) day in order to maintain membership in the bank. The sick leave bank committee can request one (1) re-enrollment from its membership during a school year. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be administered by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding a committee of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3members appointed by the CTA president. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure The sick leave bank committee may grant, deny, or suspend grants of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the bank. Sick leave bank committee to be given the case by case authority based upon need to provide an exception to the restriction that a teacher’s use of the bank is limited to the number of days contributed plus ten days. Its judgment or decision will be final. A certificated school employee upon being employed in the middle of the year may have fourteen (14) days to enroll in the sick leave bank until becoming bank. He/she will need to contribute only one day. If the teacher uses all of his/her leave days, the teacher will have a contributing member the following year. 4. Present single-day to wait without pay, and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” then may do so by following the procedure in paragraph have two (2). Staff who hire in after ) times the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. number of days plus five (5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disabilitybank. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. Under this Negotiated Agreement all Employees of this bargaining unit who have been employed by NCSD no less than one (1) year will be allowed to join and participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toSick Leave Bank is to assist Employees who have long term personal illness, injury or disabilities and hereby establishes a voluntary have exhausted their sick leave bank accumulations. Before a request for time from the Sick Leave Bank will be considered, an Employee must be off work for 7 contiguous working days or more due to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave daysa long term personal illness, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhaustedinjury, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVor disability. 1. The sick leave enrollment period for the Sick Leave Bank will be between the first day of the new school year and October 15th or between January 15th and February 15th of the same school year. An Employee that has enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank will continue their membership in the bank shall apply from year to all persons year. Enrollment forms can be secured from any NCSSO representative or Sick Leave Bank Committee member or the Xxx County School District office. An Employee may end participation in the Sick Leave Bank only with a written withdrawal request submitted to the NCSSO and the NCSD in the same manner as outlined in Article 2-1 starting third sentence first paragraph at the addresses list on the cover page of this Master Agreement and will not result in reimbursement of the time contributed to the Sick Leave Bank. a. Then a Sick Leave Bank Member is no longer employed by the school corporation whose District they will be removed from the Sick Leave Bank immediately. If the Employee resumes employment requires they must, using the holding Sick Leave Bank request form, re-enroll with in thirty (30) calendar days of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether re-hire or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applieswait until open enrollment. 2. A “contributing individual” is one whoDays from the Sick Leave Bank may be granted to any Employee who has joined the Sick Leave Bank and has met the above criteria. 3. When an Employee joins the Sick Leave Bank, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a minimum contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of be one (1) day with a maximum of ten (10) days. All members will be assessed at least one (1) annually as needed. Employees already enrolled may use enrollment form to donate more days than required if they elect to do so. 4. The maximum cumulative number of days which any one person can be granted from the Sick Leave Bank during one school year is twenty (20) days. The maximum cumulative number of days which any one person can be granted from the Sick Leave Bank during their period of employment with the NCSD is forty-five (45) days. 5. Employees who are members of the Sick Leave Bank may be granted sick leave upon written request to the Sick Leave Bank Committee Chairman. If an inquiry about Sick Leave Bank time is made of payroll, that department shall refer the Employee to the current Sick Leave Bank Committee Chairman. a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee must receive appropriate proof of medical need provided by the applicant for benefits. Including but not limited to a doctor’s statement or excuse detailing the amount of days off work needed. The written request by the Sick Leave Bank member needs to contain their contact information including a mailing address, telephone number, and any emergency contact person. This request must include the number of days the member is asking to be granted and any other information the member feels necessary. b. Any communication from the Sick Leave Bank Committee about time granted or denied will be made only with the Sick Leave Bank member or emergency contact person stated in their written request and the Payroll Department as necessary. 6. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will consist of four Organization members appointed by the Organization President, one HR representative and one Finance representative. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall develop and prepare criteria to determine the amount of sick leave, if any, is to be granted. 7. The maximum number of sick leave hours, allowed in this bank, per school year, shall be one-thousand, six-hundred (1,600). If the number of hours falls below four-hundred (400), the Sick Leave Bank Committee may assess each member one (1) additional day based on their hourly assignment. In the event that an additional assessment of the membership would need to be made to try and bring the Sick Leave Bank back up to the maximum number of days allowed. Every member participating in the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3will be assessed. A person shall cease to Time granted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be a contributing individual upon repaid at the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any time the Employee has accrued more sick leave days from the sick hours The Sick Leave Bank takes precedent over leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4usage. Present The repayment will be equivalent to one day per grant and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall will be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted immediately by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case payroll. Each grant will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives considered individually and will have its own deduction and will be deducted accordingly. More than one grant could cause more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular one deduction in a school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused for use by eligible members of the professional staff covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions who have serious illness shall be continued. a. The initial grant of sick leave under Article IVby the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. The request for an initial grant of sick leave, made to the Sick Leave Bank Committee by an eligible employee, shall be in writing and shall include written medical verification of his/her serious illness provided by the employee's own physician. 1b. Upon completion of the thirty (30) day period, the period of entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. Such demonstration of need shall be in the form of further written medical verification of continuing serious illness provided by the employee's own physician. If such a request for extension of entitlement is made, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may require, upon the request of any Sick Leave Bank Committee member, a second medical opinion to be provided by an appropriate medical specialist of the Sick Leave Bank Committee's choosing paid for by the School Departments. If the two medical opinions agree, the employee applicant shall be entitled to additional sick leave bank days beyond the original grant of thirty (30) days provided for above. If the two medical opinions disagree, a third medical opinion will be sought. The third medical specialist shall be agreed upon by the applicant's physician and the Sick Leave Bank Committee's physician. The opinion of the third medical specialist shall be controlling in the matter. The cost of the third medical opinion shall be borne equally between the employee and the School Departments. The Sick Leave Bank will continue to provide sick leave to an applicant until such time as a definitive medical opinion is established. c. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four (4) members. Two (2) members shall be designated by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued School Committees to serve at their discretion and two (2) members shall be designated by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member Association. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the bargaining unit bank and the amount of leave to which this contract appliesbe granted. The following criteria shall be used by the committee in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave: i. Adequate medical evidence of serious long-term illness. 2ii. A “contributing individual” is one whoPrior utilization of all eligible sick leave. d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may from time to time promulgate, within and cause to be disseminated, rules and regulations concerning the first thirty (30) days operation of the contract year, signs a contribution formSick Leave Bank. Such rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, guidelines for applicants concerning Sick Leave Bank procedures and timelines. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee relative to rules and regulations, eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding and not subject to any appeal either contractual or statutory. e. If the sick leave bank is depleted to one hundred (100) days, it shall be renewed by the contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) additional day of sick leave by each member of the professional staff covered by this Agreement. Such additional day will be deducted from the teacher's annual fifteen (15) days of sick leave. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the time when it becomes necessary to replenish the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodbank. 3. A person shall cease to be f. The maximum number of days a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days teacher can obtain from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present is one hundred and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two eighty (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional 180) days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearyear period, said period commencing with the employee's initial award from the Sick Leave Bank. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, Board and the LHEA hereby establishes agree to establish a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with Sick Leave Bank on the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV.basis: 1. The sick leave bank An annual enrollment period shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a be established between September 1st and September 30th for each member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs voluntarily donate a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning maximum of one (1) day of their accumulated, but unused, sick leave days to a Sick Leave Bank. Only bargaining unit members who enroll in the Bank by donating one (1) sick leave bank and an individual day may contribute up withdraw from the Bank. 2. If the total number of days in the Bank drops below fifty (50), every enrolled bargaining unit member will be asked to five donate one (51) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodadditional day. Bargaining unit members who had not previously enrolled may donate one (1) day to enroll at this time. 3. A person Committee comprised of the superintendent or his/her designee, the President of the LHEA, or his/her designee, one (1) building Principal chosen by the Superintendent, and two (2) LHEA members chosen by the LHEA President, shall cease administer the Bank. The Committee shall develop the approved form of communication, media and format and shall approve applications at its discretion. The superintendent and/or his/her designee shall serve as chairman. 4. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of their sick leave accumulation and available personal leave, who have developed a serious catastrophic or incapacitating illness or injury which is not likely to be a contributing individual upon permanently disable the failure of such individual bargaining unit members as defined by the following criteria, and who have contributed to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any the Sick Leave Bank may request sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing Bank. A member may not withdraw days from the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodBank for elective procedures. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject The bargaining unit member must first submit to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on superintendent or Designee a teacherwritten medical certification completed by a qualified physician or health care provider, at the member’s first day receiving no pay as long as sole cost, indicating the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick daysmember’s serious, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of catastrophic or incapacitating illness or injury of a different nature during and the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval expected period of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for actual physical or mental incapacity. Upon review, the purposes permitted by superintendent and/or Designee may request additional information from the Federal member and/or the physician/health care provider who provided the medical/health care certification. Additionally, the superintendent or Designee may obtain a second opinion consistent with provisions of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ). A serious catastrophic or incapacitating illness or injury must meet the following criteria: a. Causing a direct and must be supported by immediate threat to a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature member’s life or their dependent; b. Requiring extensive medical care of the member or their dependent; and c. Resulting in an extended period of actual physical or mental incapacity of the member or their dependent. In order to qualify as having a serious, catastrophic or incapacitating illness and prognosis report for or injury, a bargaining unit member must satisfy all of the teacher’s return to workthree pre-conditions listed above. d. Days taken 6. Approved bargaining unit members shall be granted up to a maximum of ten percent (10%) of the days from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those Bank until such time that the available days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disabilityare exhausted. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. 7. The Sick leave bank days Leave Bank shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used as a means for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractincreasing retirement compensation and/or severance pay. 8. The school district Repayment of borrowed days shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearcease. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. a. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Board shall establish a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons bank. Participating Teachers may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which borrow a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions limited number of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming Sick Leave Bank for a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two Family Medical Leave (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review CommitteeFMLA) approved event. b. In the even event that a teacher is disabled as a result Teacher has not already submitted the statement of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying an attending physician verifying the nature of the illness in conjunction with a Board approved leave, the Teacher shall be required to submit such medical certification information prior to becoming eligible to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank. c. To establish the Sick Leave Bank, all participating Teachers must donate two (2) of their accumulated and prognosis report credited sick leave days. A Teacher wishing to participate must donate such days by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office on or before September 30th for the teacher2021-2022 school year. Teachers who are employed less than full-time shall donate days on a prorated basis and receive borrowed days on a prorated basis. If a participating Teacher’s return bank of paid sick days is depleted at the time of enrollment, the Teacher may instead donate accrued personal business leave. However, no participating Teacher may borrow personal business days to workenroll in the Sick Leave Bank. At the conclusion of each school year, the Sick Leave Bank’s unused days will be carried over to the next school year. d. Days taken from Participating Teachers will not be required to donate additional days to the sick leave bank shall apply only Sick Day Bank unless the Board and the Association agree that additional donations are necessary to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if keep the teacher were not under disabilitySick Leave Bank operative. e. All contractual donated days are a permanent contribution to the Sick Leave Bank and are not transferrable to another school corporation should a participating Teacher leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from their employment with the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any dayBoard. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against The Board agrees to contribute to the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of Bank a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following matching number of sick leave days under equivalent to one-half (1/2) the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum total number of days that are donated by participating teachers. g. Participating Teachers may apply to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office. The Teacher’s accumulated sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up must be exhausted prior to 60 borrowing days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of from the Sick Bank Review CommitteeLeave Bank. 6. Should h. A participating Teacher may borrow up to sixty (60) days per year, but not more than one hundred eighty (180) days during the Teacher’s employment by the Board. i. All sick leave bank fall to in excess of two hundred fifty (250) days that has been accumulated by a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee Teacher who retires shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by considered to have been donated to the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank Sick Leave Bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysretirement.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a A voluntary sick leave bank is available for District certified personnel employed in a certified position working a minimum of half time and at least 6 months a year under the following conditions and provisions and is retroactive to which certificated persons may 8-21-01: A. Each participating certified employee shall contribute unused one day of his/her sick leave days, per year for the first three years of participation and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when one-half day per year for each successive year to the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1bank. The deadline for sick leave bank enrollment shall apply be on September 15 of each year. Eligible certified employees declining to all persons employed by become participants in the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not bank in any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract given year, signs shall be eligible for participation later once they become a contribution formcontributing member. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to Once you have enrolled in the sick leave bank and bank, you will remain an individual may contribute up active member with automatic deductions made from your sick leave account each year unless you request in writing to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodthe business office to be dropped from the bank. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing B. This pool is for the protection of individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5certified employees during his/her long-term extended illness or disability. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject may only occur after a member has depleted all of their available sick leave. At that time a member may begin to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on draw up to a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice maximum of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional 30 days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken within one contract year from the sick leave bank shall apply only bank. First year employees are limited to those 15 days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school within one contract year. i. Leave from the . The sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as C. Administration of the beginning bank will be handled by the business office. All requests or use of the school year bank must be submitted in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from writing via the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up form to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may the superintendent for approval and must be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at supported by a written statement from the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6certified employee's personal physician. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised An advisory committee of three (3) certified pool members appointed by shall review appeals to see if they are administered according to handbook specifications. Advisory committee would have the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by authority to overturn the Superintendentappealed decision. The committee absence for which pool days are requested must be of such a nature that absence from duties is unavoidable and is necessitated. Should loss of pay inadvertently occur through late notification, such loss shall consider and review all requests be restored in the next pay period following approval of the request for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractpool days. 8D. Persons withdrawing days from the bank are not required to replace these days except as a regular contributing member in the bank. The school district A person resigning, retiring, withdrawing from membership in the bank or declining to make contributions as required shall notify certificated employees not be able to withdraw previously contributed days. E. Days in the bank shall be withdrawn on a first-come, first serve basis, however, if the bank at any time becomes depleted to 50 days members will be notified a contribution is needed. Any current member of the enrollment period for bank may re-contribute to the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within bank on a volunteer basis at an amount which will not exceed 1 additional day. Unused days in the first five (5) school days of each bank shall be carried over to the next succeeding school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) F. Annual Report of the balance of days in of the sick leave bank will be shared with the MEA President at the time end of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) dayseach fiscal year.

Sick Leave Bank. The 1. Continued membership in the Sick Leave Bank will be automatic unless the employee opts out within ten (10) working days of the initial date of employment or the first ten (10) working days of any school corporation agrees toyear. Employees who opt out of the Bank are ineligible to use the Bank. Temporary employees are not eligible for membership in the Bank. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank will require an initial contribution of one (1) sick leave day per employee. (Revised 1999, 2003) 2. Sick leave days in the Bank will carry over from school year to school year, and hereby establishes an additional contribution will not be required until the beginning of the semester following a voluntary drop in the total number of sick leave bank days in the Bank to below 300 days, at which certificated persons may contribute unused time an additional contribution of one (1) sick leave day per employee will be made to replenish the Bank's sick leave days. Employees who opt out of the contribution to the Bank will be dropped from the program. (Revised 1995, 2003) 3. The Bank will be administered by the Sick Leave Committee. The Committee will be composed of members appointed by the Association to include the GEA Executive Board and from which a contributing individual may draw an administrative representative appointed by the Superintendent. The following conditions will govern the granting of sick leave days when from the individual’s annual Bank: (Revised 2000, 2003) a. An employee may request days from the Bank only for that employee's injuries/illnesses. (To request days needed as a result of the injuries/illnesses of family and/or significant others, see the provision identified under Sick Leave Donation.) An employee may not request days from the Sick Leave Bank for a work related illness or accident paid by worker's compensation. (Revised 1995) b. Application for benefits from the Bank must be made in writing. Application forms will be available from the Finance Department or the Association. A copy of the completed form will be kept on file with the Finance Department. A doctor 's statement specifying the nature of the illness or injury, possible days absent, extensiveness of treatment, and accumulated the anticipated date of release to return to work to fulfill their contract obligations and essential functions of their job must be part of the application. The District may require a second opinion from a doctor of the District's choosing and at the District's expense. (Revised 1995, 1999, 2003) c. Sick Leave Bank days will not be granted until an employee has used all of his/her accrued and projected sick leave days are exhaustedand discretionary days. In order to access the bank for any event, in accordance with an employee must be absent for five (5) days for that event. The bank will not reimburse the following provisionsemployee for the initial five (5) days of absence. Please see the definitions of If an employee accesses Sick Leave Bank and/or sick leave under Article IV. 1donation. The a maximum of one day sick leave bank shall apply must be donated to all persons employed the Sick Leave Bank at the beginning of his/her next contract year. This does not eliminate the employee's responsibility to donate as called for by the school corporation whose employment requires Sick Leave Bank committee. If the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or employee is not any such person is otherwise a member of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank, this donation does not entitle him/her to which this contract applies.membership. (Revised 1995, 1999, 2003) 2d. Not more than seventy (70) Sick Leave Bank days may be used by any one employee in any school year. A “contributing individual” is one who, within After the first thirty (30) days of Sick Leave Bank use and each twenty (20) days thereafter, the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled submit verification from his/her doctor that the illness or disabling condition continues and the anticipated date of release for return to draw any sick leave days from work. The committee has the sick leave bank until becoming right to request a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the requestsecond medical opinion or more information. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor denial, the employee has the right to take additional leave for request a hearing before the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve Association Board of Directors. The Association 's Board's decision is final. (Revised 2003) e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will provide copies of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee.requests to the Finance Department. (Revised 1995) b. In 4. The Association will report in writing the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval status of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for to the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used Finance Department at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested year, at semester break, and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion end of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year. (Revised 1995) 5. The Association and the Sick Leave Bank Committee assume the full responsibility for the control of the Bank, an additional contribution and will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests responsible for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees actions as a result of the enrollment period for Bank operation. This totally precludes any form of action against the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within Board or any member of the first five (5) school days of each school yearadministration. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toA. A Sick Leave Bank is established for use by members whose sick leave accumulation is exhausted through prolonged illness and who require additional leave to make full recovery from an extended illness. B. Each new member of the bargaining unit shall submit one (1) sick day of his/her personal accumulation to the Sick Leave Bank upon commencing employment to be utilized by employees who qualify and who have exhausted their own individual sick leave, both annual and accumulated, and hereby establishes who still have a voluntary serious extended illness. Any sick days left in the Sick Leave Bank from the previous school year shall be maintained in the Bank from year to year. At any time that the Sick Leave Bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, each member shall contribute an additional day to the Bank. C. Any sick leave bank granted under the provisions of this Article shall expire at the end of the school year. Sick days drawn from the Bank shall be actual workdays in which school was in session excluding weekends, holidays, school closings, and vacation periods. D. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of two (2) members designated by the Superintendent to which certificated persons serve at its discretion and two (2) members designated by the Teachers Association. E. Application for benefits shall be made in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee accompanied by a doctor's certificate as to need for and anticipated extent of extended recovery time for the illness. F. Application for benefits may contribute unused be made prior to the employee's exhaustion of his/her own personal sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when to expedite benefits. Drawings upon the individual’s annual and accumulated Bank will commence on the first (1st) school day after the employee's own sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions . G. The initial grant of sick leave under Article IVby the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Upon completion of the thirty- (30) day period, additional entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. H. Subject to the foregoing requirements, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave to be granted. The following general criteria shall be considered by the Committee in administering the Bank and in determining the amount of leave: 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding Medical evidence of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesserious extended illness. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days Prior utilization of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of eligible sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodleave. 3. A person Length of service in the system. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall cease be final and binding and not subject to be a contributing individual upon appeal, or to the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form grievance and such individual arbitration as set forth in Article 4. I. Upon return from extended sick leave during which benefits were received through the Sick Leave Bank, the recipient shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any commence a new accumulation of individual sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractthe collective bargaining agreement on the same basis as other teachers. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A. A sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused for use by eligible members of the professional staff covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave daysand who have serious illness or injury, and from which a contributing individual may draw shall be maintained by an annual assessment of one-half (1/2) sick leave days when day from the individual’s annual and accumulated entitlement of every individual covered by this Agreement. B. All sick leave assessments for the sick leave bank are made for the school years covered by this Agreement. If, at the end of each year no withdrawals have been made, all days are exhaustedshall be carried into the next school year as that school year’s initial assessment. If any withdrawals have been made, in accordance with the balance remaining at the end of each year, up to a maximum of one hundred (100) days will be credited to the following provisionsschool year and any remaining days beyond one hundred (100) will be canceled and cease to exist without any account being credited. Please see the definitions Any grant of sick leave under Article IVby the sick leave bank committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Upon the exhaustion of any grant, the employee shall apply to the sick leave bank committee for further sick leave. 1C. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a sick leave bank committee consisting of four (4) members. Two (2) members shall be designated by the School Committee to serve at its discretion, and two (2) members shall be designated by the Association. The sick leave bank committee shall apply to all persons employed by determine the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member eligibility for use of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within bank and the first thirty (30) days amount of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3be granted. A person shall cease to be The applicant for a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number grant of days from the sick leave bank in shall send a copy of any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should medical documentation required by the sick leave bank fall committee to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment periodoffice of the Superintendent of Schools. 7D. Payment of sick leave bank grants may be delayed pending the submission of such medical documentation to the Superintendent’s office. All decisions of the sick leave bank committee shall be by majority vote. A Sick Bank Review Committee tie vote shall constitute a denial of sick leave. The following criteria shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed used by the exclusive representative sick leave bank committee in administering the bank and one (in determining eligibility and amount of leave: 1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use Adequate medical evidence of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractserious illness or injury. 82. The Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave. 3. Length of service in the school district shall notify certificated employees system. 4. Leave days may not be withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank which allow an individual unit member to stay at home to care for a member of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearfamily. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case Committee will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw formed made up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed administrators chosen by the exclusive representative District and one three (13) individual appointed teachers chosen by the SuperintendentAssociation. The Committee will be the governing board of the Sick Leave Bank. The Committee will convene at the request of a member to review requests based on a stated Sick Leave Bank policy. 2. Each teacher upon being hired will donate a sick leave day to the bank. Each currently employed teacher will donate a day. No teacher will have to donate a day if that will adversely impact their retirement. A teacher who has more than one hundred ninety (190) days may donate up to ten (10) days to the bank. 3. An eligible Bargaining Unit Member who has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave may request to use Sick Leave Bank days for personal illness which constitutes a catastrophic disability as defined in paragraph 4 below and as determined by a majority of the Committee. For employees who exhaust sick leave due to a catastrophic illness or disability as defined in paragraph 4 below, the member may request additional sick leave from the committee for illnesses as defined in section A. 1. above through the remainder of the contractual year. Any such decisions shall consider and review all not be precedent setting. All requests for Sick Leave Bank use must be accompanied by medical verification in the form requested by the Committee. A first-year teacher is eligible to request up to forty-five (45) days from the Bank. All other teachers may request to use up to ninety (90) total days every five (5) years from the Sick Leave Bank during their employment in the District. 4. 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. 5. Except for new hires, no days will be collected until the Bank has less than fifty (50) days. The Committee may determine when it is appropriate to collect days again. 6. If the Bank dissolves, days will be returned to teachers who have contributed on a pro-rata basis. 7. Days will also be available for catastrophic illness in the immediate family subject to Board of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractEducation approval. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of No Bargaining Unit Member may access the enrollment period District Sick Leave Bank to acquire sick days to exchange for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9Paid Family Leave Benefits provided under Article VIII. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.B.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toIn the event of catastrophic illness or serious illness or disability, and hereby establishes a voluntary an employee may obtain sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with Sick Leave Bank based on the following provisionsconditions: • Present Sick Leave accumulation is exhausted. Please see • There is medical documentation for the definitions of condition. • The employee must have contributed to the Bank, as described below. Voluntary contributions will be accepted and recorded in September. An employee must contribute two authorized leave (replace with sick leave under Article IV. 1leave) days to the Sick Leave Bank in order to join the Sick Leave Bank. The sick leave bank shall apply Thereafter, the employee must contribute one day per year to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is remain a member of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank to which this contract applies. 2be eligible for Sick Leave Bank time. A “contributing individual” is one who, within Teachers shall sign and return a form indicating whether they will or will not join the first thirty (30) days Sick Leave Bank by the last school day of September. The administration shall provide the President of the contract Union with the number of those participating in the Sick Leave Bank no later than the second week of October each year. The administration shall also provide to members, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require no later than the assigning second week of one (1) day October, confirmation of sick leave the days contributed to the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank. An employee who has contributed to the Sick Leave Bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave who desires days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank shall be subject make written application addressed to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve chair of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In Committee with the even medical documentation attached. A committee of three employees (one from each level and elected by the bargaining unit) and two administrators (appointed by the Superintendent) will review all applications and forward a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during decision to the same school yearSuperintendent. An employee who has been denied days from the Sick Leave Bank may appeal, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval in writing, the decision of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee to the Superintendent within ten days. Committee members will serve for three-year terms. Upon presentation of satisfactory medical evidence of disability or illness to the Committee and approval by said Committee. c. , an employee participating in the Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but Bank may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw granted up to 30 additional days of Sick Leave Bank time. Should the employee still be disabled after this time, he/she may request an additional 30 days for a maximum of 60 days. Any unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will carry over to the next year. The maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 be utilized by all employees shall not exceed 180 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school per year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, i. Bargaining unit employees who have completed two or more years of service will be eligible to participate in the existing Unit A and hereby establishes a voluntary B sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution formbank. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave bank will continue to be administered by the sick leave bank committee consisting of four members, two designated by the BSC and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodtwo designated by the BEU. 3ii. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty Bargaining unit members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the eligible for sick leave bank shall be subject automatically enrolled in the Bank unless s/he provides written notice (or via e-mail) of her/his election not to join the Bank to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources by October 15th. Such employee’s “opt-out” of the Bank shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as continue from year to year unless s/he provides written notice (or via e-mail) to join the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need Bank to be allotted retroactively to allow time the Assistant Superintendent for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice Human Resources by October 15th of a doctor to take additional leave subsequent year. If a bargaining unit employee becomes eligible for participation in the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank at any point after the opening of school, s/he will be enrolled in the bank unless s/he indicates in writing (or via e-mail) to the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources within 30 days of becoming eligible that s/he does not wish to join the Bank. Once enrolled, a day will be automatically deducted each year unless the employee resigns from the bank in writing (or via e-mail) to the payroll office with a copy to the Human Resources Office. Only employees who deposit time granted is subject in the bank are permitted to approval withdraw from the bank. In addition to the days donated by Paraprofessional Unit members, Paraprofessional Unit employees may access days in the Unit A and B sick bank. iii. All requests for withdrawal from the bank must be accompanied by the reason and approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The number of days requested from the bank must be specified at the time of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick initial request. Any request for extension of days after the initial request from the bank leave shall will be used for the purposes permitted reviewed by the Federal Medical Sick Leave Act (FMLA) Bank Committee and must be supported by a written granted accordingly. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying an attending physician’s statement regarding the nature of the illness of the applicant and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to workanticipated period of absence. d. Days taken iv. The borrower is required to repay 25% of the number of days. This amount may be adjusted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee dependent upon the total days available in the bank. In the event of a new contract and/or an extension of the existing one, the balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank are to be carried over to succeeding contracts. v. No days may be withdrawn from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay Sick Leave Bank for use for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more reason other than such teacherthe employee’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank illness or injury. Days may not be used withdrawn to permit an employee to stay at home for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out other members of a pregnancyfamily. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days vi. Benefits for bargaining unit employees under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days limited to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first forty-five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (75045) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysany contract year.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A “Sick Leave Bank” shall be maintained whereby all teachers may “deposit” one day of the sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused they are entitled each year. Teachers who have used up the sick leave daysto which they are entitled may apply to draw on the bank. The bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four members, two designated by the BSC and two designated by the BEU. The operation of the bank and withdrawals there from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, shall be carried out in accordance with the following provisions. Please see guidelines: A. All deposits to the definitions of sick leave under Article IVSick Leave Bank are to be voluntary. 1B. A teacher shall be enrolled in the Bank unless s/he provides written notice (or via e-mail) of her/his election not to join the Bank to the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources by October 15th. The sick leave Such employee’s “opt-out” of the Bank shall C. Any teacher joining the staff after the opening of school will be enrolled in the Bank unless s/he indicates in writing (or via e-mail) to the Human Resources Director within 30 days of initial employment that s/he does not wish to join the Bank D. Only those who deposit to the bank shall apply may be permitted to all persons employed withdraw from the bank. E. All requests for withdrawal from the bank must be accompanied by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued reason and approved by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In F. The number of days requested from the even a teacher is disabled as a result bank must be specified at the time of illness or injury initial request. G. Any request for extension of a different nature during days after the same school year, any additional sick leave initial request from the bank time granted is subject to approval of will be reviewed by the Sick Leave Bank Review CommitteeCommittee and granted accordingly. c. H. The Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written Bank Committee may request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying an attending physician’s statement regarding the nature of the illness of the applicant and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to workanticipated period of absence. d. Days taken I. The borrower is required to repay 25% of the number of days. This amount may be adjusted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee dependent upon the total days available in the bank. J. No days may be withdrawn from the sick leave bank shall apply only Sick Leave Bank for use by any reason other than illness. Days may not be withdrawn to those days on which permit a teacher would receive pay if to stay at home for other members of a family. In the teacher were not under disabilityevent of a new contract and/or an extension of the existing one, the balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank is to be carried over to succeeding contracts. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from X. During the sick leave bank so that first year of membership in the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall may not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives withdraw more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays60 days per school year. During the second year of membership in the Sick Leave Bank, if any, shall a teacher may not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank withdraw more than 90 days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular per school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toEach certificated employee of the District may participate in the Sick Leave Bank. To participate, and hereby establishes each employee shall contribute a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw prescribed number of his earned sick leave days when as determined by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Sick leave days thus contributed shall be deducted from the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave entitlement. The contributed sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of form a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number fund of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall that will be available to all eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion participating certificated employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. 6Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring illness extending beyond the employee’s accumulated sick leave. Should Application for use of the sick leave bank fall Bank shall be submitted to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7Sick Leave Bank Committee for their recommendation. A Sick Bank Review The Committee shall be formed review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the Committee deems necessary, it shall be comprised require proof of three illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made. The committee shall have the authority to establish guidelines, as it deems necessary to implement this program. Guidelines shall have the approval of the Soda Springs Education Association and the Board of Trustees. After a complete review of the application, the Committee shall have authority to make final decisions within guidelines, as to disposition of the case. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of two (32) members appointed by the exclusive representative Association and one two (12) individual members appointed by the SuperintendentDistrict. The committee Committee shall consider develop and review all requests distribute rules and procedures for use the orderly administration of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8Bank. The school district Committee shall notify certificated employees also be responsible for reporting to the District Business Office the names of the enrollment period contributors and numbers of days contributed. The Committee shall be responsible for reporting all days granted to any certificated employee by the sick bank, including required contribution forms Sick Leave Bank and appropriate deadlines, within all other information necessary to maintain an adequate accounting of the first five operation. For application see appendices (5a) school days of each school yearpage 15. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member All members of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesshall become participants in the sick leave bank by contributing three (3) days from his/her accumulated sick leave. If at any time the total number of days in the bank drops below three thousand (3,000), the employees will again deposit into the bank three (3) days by each teacher. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days Upon exhaustion of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of accumulated sick leave any teacher covered by this Agreement may apply to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up Sick Leave Bank Committee, as hereinafter provided, for a withdrawal of days. Application should be made as soon as the teacher suspects that time will be requested. Sick Bank time is not awarded retroactively after the teacher has returned to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodwork. 3. A person shall cease Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of two (2) members appointed by the Superintendent and two (2) members appointed by the President of the Union will be established. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review all applicants desiring to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave withdraw days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member bank. The decision of the following yearcommittee shall be final. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish Applications to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank Committee shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick made by letter and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported accompanied by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of physician’s statement describing the illness and prognosis report for a date of return to work. Applications shall be transmitted, with supporting documents, to the teacherCo- Chairpersons of the Committee. It is the applicant’s responsibility to provide, with the letter of application, the following information to both Co- Chairpersons: a. A description of the condition requiring additional sick leave days. b. A complete history of the use of accumulated sick leave time. Include dates absent and the reasons where possible. Date of expiration of full days or accumulated sick time is also required. c. A statement of the history of the condition and other relevant conditions. d. A statement from the attending physician or medical professional offering a diagnosis and a prognosis and, where possible, an estimated date when the applicant may return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which e. A request for a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum specific number of days from the Sick Leave Bank. f. Incomplete applications will not be acted upon by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 5. An employee who exhausts all full pay accumulated sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum granted up to thirty (30) school days (listed by the committee in Section j) at response to the discretion of the written application. Payment for such days shall begin only after all full pay accumulation has been used. Additional sick time will not be granted to persons who have abused existing sick days. The Teachers’ Sick Bank Review Committeeis a valuable benefit for all teachers. It is an insurance policy against catastrophic illness or disability which assures that teachers’ salaries are continued during times of stress and sickness. 6. Should If, after the sick leave bank fall original withdrawal authorized by the committee, the employee is unable to a thirty (30) day balance during a school yearreturn to duty, he/she may submit to the committee an application for an additional contribution withdrawal of up to twenty (20) school days. The second withdrawal will be requested and will count toward begin following expiration of the subsequent enrollment periodfirst withdrawal. 7. A The first and second application must be accompanied by a physician’s statement describing the illness and prognosis for a date of return to work. Thereafter, any part-pay accumulation as described above to which the employee is entitled shall be implemented. The Sick Leave Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed have the authority to require a second opinion by a physician designated by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed committee, the cost of such opinion to be borne by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractemployee. 8. The school district Sick Leave Bank Committee shall notify certificated employees of have the enrollment period for the sick bankdiscretion, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlinesbut be under no obligation, within the first five (5) school to authorize additional days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in from the bank at to employees in cases of extended disability. The Committee’s decisions shall not be subject to the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysgrievance process.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toa. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for use by eligible members of the secretarial staff covered by this Agreement who, and hereby establishes as a voluntary result of a serious illness, have exhausted their own sick leave. b. Newly-hired employees shall contribute one (1) day of their first year’s sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with Sick Leave Bank upon the following provisions. Please see the definitions commencement of sick leave under Article IVtheir employment. 1c. All days in the Sick Leave Bank at the end of each contract year shall be carried over into the next contract year. The sick leave bank Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to ten (10), the Bank shall apply to all persons employed be replenished by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a automatic contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member accumulation of all members of the following yearbargaining unit as of that date. 4d. The initial grant of sick leave by the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed ten (10) days. e. Upon completion of the said ten (10) day period, the period of entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank Committee for up to ten (10) more days upon demonstration of need by the applicant. Present This process may be repeated as often as is necessary provided that the applicant is able to demonstrate her/his continued need to the satisfaction of the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon completion of each ten-day period. f. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four members. Two (2) members shall be designated by the Employer to serve at its discretion, and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2)) members shall be designated by the Association. Staff who hire in after The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use eligibility for the use of the sick Bank and the amount of leave bank shall to be subject to the granted. The following limitations: a. Sick bank leave criteria shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as by the teacher has exhausted Bank Committee in administering the Bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave: 1) Adequate medical evidence of serious illness; 2) Prior utilization of all accumulated eligible sick days, as well as all annual leave; or 3) Anticipated need for additional sick and personal days. Days may need leave days during the remainder of the year based upon guidelines to be allotted retroactively to allow time for adopted by the sick bank committee to meet and review the requestCommittee. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve All members of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even Committee shall be provided with such access to available records as is necessary to permit them to make a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval well- informed judgment in each case. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) final and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual binding and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return not subject to workappeal. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A Sick Leave Bank for use by eligible teachers who have exhausted their own sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and who have serious personal illness has been established. A Sick Leave Bank Commit- tee consisting of five (5) members shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. Two (2) members will be desig- nated by the School Committee and three (3) designated by the Association. The operation of the Bank and withdrawal there from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, shall be carried out in accordance with the following provisions. Please see : A) Upon hire and thereafter as necessary, each teacher will deposit to the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of Bank one (1) day of sick leave. Once deposited sick leave days shall become the property of the Bank and may not be withdrawn by the contributing member(s) for any reason other than those set forth below. B) All deposits to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodBank will be credited October 1 of each year. 3C) Withdrawals may be made only for serious personal illness or accident of the teacher or child bearing leave and applied only during the regular school year (185 days). A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter Days may not be entitled withdrawn to draw any permit a teacher to stay at home for other members of a family. D) Any member of the Bank who seeks sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member Bank shall himself/ herself, or by anoth- er person authorized to act on his/her behalf, inform in writing the following year. 4Sick Leave Bank Committee. Present and new faculty members who wish Copies thereof shall be sent to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use president of the sick Association and to the human resource director setting forth the nature of his/her illness, an estimate of how long such illness shall continue in the school year in which his/her leave bank has been exhausted, and the number of days that he/she seeks to withdraw from the Bank. Said application shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported accompanied by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying statement of a physician with personal knowledge which shall corroborate the nature of the illness and prognosis report estimate the degree and duration of same. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall have the right to request of the applicant additional information as needed for the teacher’s return to workpurpose of reaching a decision in a particular case. d. Days taken from the E) The initial grant of sick leave bank by the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible teacher shall apply only to those not ex- ceed thirty (30) school days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days and shall be waived while drawing pay from made according to the following criteria: 1) adequate medical evidence of serious personal illness 2) prior utilization of all eligible sick leave 3) length of service in the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District 4) propriety in the use of previous sick leave F) A teacher who is still unable to perform his/her duties after the period for which sick leave bank so that a teacher in has been granted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee may apply for an additional grant. Such request shall be subject to the provisions set forth above. In no case will shall any teacher be drawing double pay for any day. f. This granted sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of to extend beyond the school year in which such leave has been granted. No teacher shall be granted sick leave bank benefits are requested and useddays by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in more than two (2) con- secutive school years for the same illness or for more than 185 school days, have accumulated whichever period is less. During the following number first year of employment, a teacher may not withdraw more than 90 school days from the Sick Leave Bank. G) The granting of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion by majority vote of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee shall be in writing with a copy of such statement being forwarded to the human resource office for inclusion in the teacher’s per- sonnel folder. All decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and binding and are not subject to the grievance procedure of this Agreement. H) The borrower is required to repay 25% of the number of days. In the event of unusual circumstances, this amount may be adjusted by majority vote of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 6. Should I) In the sick leave bank fall event of depletion of the Bank’s resources, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may recommend to the membership a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, reassessment of an additional contribution day of contribution. If the Sick Leave Bank balance goes below 900 days, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be requested and will count toward notify the subsequent enrollment periodAssociation. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised J) In the event of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees a new contract and/or an extension of the enrollment period for existing one, the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days balance of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will Sick Leave Bank are to be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) dayscarried over to succeeding years.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and Teachers who use up their accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall time may apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five for additional time using the proper forms. If the bank is overdrawn (5as determined by the Sick Leave Bank Committee) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be teachers will receive a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use prorated share of the sick leave days needed for each day contributed by the teachers. Sick bank usage shall be subject limited to one hundred eighty (180) days’ maximum lifetime coverage; except, however, where one or more maternity-related disability periods occur, the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave affected teacher’s lifetime maximum shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal increased to two hundred ten (210) days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the The Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised composed of three (3) members appointed of the Association and shall meet no less frequently than monthly. This committee shall be empowered to approve or disapprove all such applications and determine the number of days allowable if approved. The teacher receiving such an allowance from the bank shall not be expected to repay the day(s) so provided. If such application is not approved, those absences shall be without remuneration. Bank days deposited each year by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by teachers will accumulate in the Superintendentbank from year to year less withdrawals. The committee shall consider and review all requests Teachers are responsible for use of sick requesting leave from the bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions guidelines. No leave will be granted until all accumulated sick leave is exhausted. Teachers are not expected to repay the bank when the Sick Leave Bank Committee approves their withdrawal. Abuse of this contract. 8a teacher’s sick leave allowance may result in denial of sick bank benefits by the committee. The school personnel department will continue to assist the committee in processing claims and in record keeping. The Association will define, indemnify and hold the district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for and board harmless regarding any claim related in any way to administering the sick bank, including . The Association has the right to choose legal counsel and to settle any and all claims. The board is required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days to give adequate advance notice of each school yearany claims being asserted. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toUpon the date of execution of this Agreement, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave Sick Leave Bank shall be established at the University if 50% of the unit members subscribe to such bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave daysor a minimum of one hundred (100) days is donated by the unit members, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisionswhichever is less. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave Such bank shall apply be maintained for the benefit of all those members of the bargaining unit who shall have chosen, pursuant to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires terms of this Agreement, to become a member thereof. Within ninety (90) days after the holding execution date of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Educationthis Agreement, whether or not any such person is an employee may become a member of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank by assigning one (1) or more full days of his/her personal sick leave accumulation to which this contract applies. 2the Bank; provided, however, that on the date of making such assignment the employee shall have accumulated not fewer than six (6) days of personal sick leave. During the term of the Agreement, an employee who shall have accumulated six (6) days of personal sick leave who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become so by assigning to the Bank (1) or more full days of his personal sick leave accumulation, during the annual thirty (30) day period established for such purpose. A “contributing individual” member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be eligible to draw upon the Bank five (5) working days after the exhaustion of the member’s personal sick leave, vacation leave and personal leave accumulation in the event such member is hospitalized, suffers a catastrophic or prolonged illness or is totally incapacitated from work. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint labor-management committee with equal representation between unit member and the administration. This local labor-management committee will determine at what level the Sick Bank will be replenished. However, members can donate one whoor more full days each time it is required that the Bank be replenished. Any member of the Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who has exhausted his/her personal sick leave accumulation shall assign such additional full day or days as of the date on which such member is next entitled to personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall begin drawing on the Bank only upon presentation of a medical certificate satisfactory to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Such medical certificate shall be signed by a physician and shall set forth the nature of the employee’s illness or disability and its anticipated duration. The initial award of time shall be no greater than six weeks and shall be awarded unless a majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee votes against such an award. A one-time extension may be granted for no greater than six weeks by a majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Any vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited automatically to the Sick Leave Bank. An employee who is transferred to the unit covered by this Agreement, from a position at another Institution of Higher Education where he/she was an active member of the Sick Leave Bank may, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract yeardate of such transfer, signs become a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require member of the Bank at the University by assigning one or more full days of one (1) day of personal sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodBank. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes purpose of a voluntary sick leave bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick loan additional days to a teacher who has experienced an accidental injury, surgery or serious illness to him/herself or his/her spouse or dependent child and has exhausted all personal leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhaustedleave, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions advancement of sick leave and is not eligible for disability retirement under Article IV. 1STRS. The sick leave bank shall apply Prior to all persons employed by the October 1 of each school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require teacher may activate his/her participation in the assigning of Sick Leave Bank by contributing one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave. After this initial enrollment, an additional one (1) day will automatically be deducted from the teacher's accumulated sick leave to during the sick leave bank month of October of each year. Such days shall be placed in the Sick Leave Bank. Membership and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3subsequent deductions shall be continuous unless the teacher notifies the treasurer's office, in writing, between September 1 and September 15 that he/she cancels his/her membership. A person shall cease teacher must be an active participant in order to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual eligible to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any borrow sick leave days from the bank. The maximum number of days that a teacher can borrow for one (1) illness is fifteen (15%) percent of the total number of days in the bank. The teacher shall pay back the days he/she borrows at the rate of fifty (50%) percent of his/her annual accumulated sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member at the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use end of the sick leave bank contract year, each year until the total number of borrowed days has been restored to the bank. A teacher making a request for the use of days in the Sick Leave Bank must complete the application form in Appendix H and submit it to the Director of Human Resources. The Director of Human Resources will notify the Sick Leave Bank Committee that a request has been received. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall convene and review all applications for approval and/or disapproval. The Director of Human Resources shall forward the decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee to the applicant. The decisions of this committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the following limitations: a. grievance procedure in Article 4. The Sick bank leave Leave Bank Committee shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as consist of two (2) representatives appointed by the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick Association co-presidents and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for two (2) representatives appointed by the sick bank committee to meet and review Board who shall oversee the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve functions of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In Leave Bank, effective with the even a teacher is disabled as a result ratification of illness or injury of a different nature during this agreement, the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval parties will review the appointment of the Sick Bank Review Committeerepresentatives to this committee and make final selections. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to illness, injury or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her presence in school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes inadvisable. A. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be open to all certificated school personnel in the Area 30 Career Center. Participation shall be on a voluntary sick leave bank to which basis. • B. To become a member, certificated persons may school personnel shall contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day to the Sick Leave Bank. A sick leave contribution form shall be signed and filed in the Director's office. New members must file the form by October 1st C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 200. Until the number of days contributed by teachers reaches the 200 day level the Board will "under write" the bank by holding 100 in escrow. Additional days, after the 200 day level has been met, may be added to the bank by teachers joining the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the requestbank. In the event a teacher on sick that days held in the bank leave returns fall below two hundred (200) days, members will be asked to work donate another day. D. Days not used and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall those held in escrow will be deducted subject carried over to the approve next year. E. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committeemay qualify for the use of days in it. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. c. in a contractual year. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank Bank days shall not be used during the summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except employment in the regular school yearArea 30 Career Center. i. Leave G. A member shall not collect from the Sick Leave Bank while collecting under Xxxxxxx'x Compensation provision in IV, 6, A of the Master Contract. X. A member may apply for the use of days in the Sick Leave Bank only after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave bank may not be and personal leave days have been used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out up and (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of a pregnancyfive (5) days pay has occurred. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number I. All applications for use of days from the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank must be submitted in any single year as follows: triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one (1) 0-10: Up copy to 60 days be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (21) 11-40: Up copy to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed remain in Section j) at the discretion files of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should Secretary of the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school yearA30EA, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual copy for the files of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application. X. A doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to work must accompany the application. K. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall consist of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center, one Board member, and three members of the Sick Leave Bank to be appointed by the SuperintendentExecutive Committee of the Area 30 Employee Organization. The committee Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall consider and review elect a Chairperson who shall be responsible for calling all requests for use meetings when notified of a request by the Director's office. L. The Sick Leave Bank Governing Board may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick bank leave days to ensure that all applications submitted, from the Sick Leave Bank. Its judgment and/or decision shall be final. Three members of the Sick Leave Bank Governing Board shall constitute a majority. M. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Bank days as established in this contract will be kept in the Director's office and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractA30EA President. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. 6.1 The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank primary purpose of the Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when provide members income protection in the individual’s annual and event the member's illness or injury exhausts his accumulated sick leave before his income protection insurance begins. Once the employee is eligible for the long term insurance benefit, the teacher can no longer use sick days are exhausted, in accordance with from the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVSick Leave Bank while on long term disability. 1. The 6.2 A certificated school employee who is absent from assigned duty due to sickness and who has utilized all of their sick leave, and all other paid leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding benefits of whatever nature, may petition a license issued by the Indiana Department of Educationcommittee, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one whoas established herein, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick for leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearbank. 46.3 Said certificated employee must have chosen to participate in the program by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank. Present The membership enrollment period each year shall be from the first contract day of the school year until September 15. Donated sick leave days shall be used to maintain the Bank and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so are non-refundable. 6.4 Said certificated employee shall have utilized and exhausted all paid leave benefits of whatever nature, including their own accumulated sick leave, and the teacher shall have been absent for at least three (3) consecutive duty days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits before his petition for leave days from the bank shall be considered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The CTA President must be notified within one (1) business day of a request from HR. 6.5 Said certificated employee must provide written certification from his physician substantiating his sickness and certifying that his absence shall continue during a period of at least ten (10) consecutive assigned duty days following the procedure in paragraph two utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein. Said written application must be made no later than ten (2). Staff who hire in 10) days after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodexhaustion of said paid leave benefits. 5. Use 6.6 Sick Leave Bank days will not be granted for periods of time when the employee is covered by Worker’s Compensation or has become eligible for the long term disability coverage. 6.7 A member may be required to furnish a medical report from a licensed physician at any time during the use of the sick leave bank. The medical review will be at the member's expense. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review each case as required. The Sick Leave Bank Committee reserves the right, if necessary, to limit or reduce the number of days granted. 6.8 Upon resumption of employment and after using days from the bank, said certificated employee must repay the number of days owed to the bank (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the rate of three (3) sick leave days per year. In addition, the teacher shall continue to contribute as defined in Paragraph 6.10 below. Upon said certificated employee's retirement or in the case of any other form of termination of employment, any sick days still owed to the bank shall be subject deducted from the said employee’s accumulated sick leave before determining any severance or retirement benefits due him. 6.9 If said certificated employee leaves employment of the school corporation, any days owed to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as in excess of the teacher has exhausted all certificated employee's total accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to waived. 6.10 When the approve number of accumulated days in the bank falls below 200 days, each member of the Sick Bank Review Committeebank shall contribute one half (1/2) day to replenish said bank. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional 6.11 A three (3) member sick leave bank time granted is subject committee shall be established to approval receive written requests and to decide whether to allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein and guidelines established by the committee. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the MVCTA and one (1) person appointed by the MVCSC. Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fourth consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank employee's said paid leave shall be used for the purposes permitted benefits, and such initial allotment by the Federal Medical Leave Act committee shall not exceed thirty (FMLA30) and must be days. If the member exhausts the initial allotment of days, he/she may reapply for additional days by submitting a request supported by a written request by doctor's statement indicating the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature continuation of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s an approximate date of return to work. If the Sick Leave Bank Committee grants an extension of days to the applicant, the days take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the initial allotment of days. d. Days taken from 6.12 If a request for use of sick leave bank days is denied by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the applicant may appeal the Committee's decision to the Appeal Board within ten (10) working days after the denial. Any decision by the Appeal Board must be by a majority vote. All decisions of the Appeal Board are final and binding, and the decision cannot be grieved under this Contract. 6.13 The Appeal Board will be composed of the following three (3) persons: 1. The superintendent or his designee. 2. The Association President or his designee. 3. A mutually agreed upon bargaining unit member decided upon by district leadership and CTA president. 6.14 Any days granted by the committee shall terminate on the earliest of the following dates: (A) the day after the last day of the term of employment for the school year; (B) the day after the last day of allotted number of days granted by the Committee; or (C) the first day of return to employment. 6.15 Any certificated employee who does not wish to participate in the sick leave bank shall apply only must waive that right in writing and send one (1) copy of such written notice to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disabilityMVCTA president and one (1) copy to the Office of the Superintendent. e. All contractual leave 6.16 No certificated employee who uses days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave granted from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave apply such days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment periodstate requirement of 120 teaching days per year for service credit on the salary schedule. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. A Sick Leave Bank Committee (SBC) and Sick Leave Bank (Bank) has been established. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick purpose of the Bank is to provide paid leave bank for serious personal illness or family illness to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when contributors to the individual’s annual and Bank who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave and who are experiencing prolonged personal or family illness. Allotments will be limited to participating employees for use only in cases of illness, injury or non-elective surgery occurring under unusual, severe or emergency conditions as determined by the SBC. Members may enroll in the Bank during enrollment periods, which shall be during the month of the September of each school year. New bargaining unit members hired after the school year has commenced will have four (4) weeks to enroll. Upon enrollment, a member shall contribute one (1) or two (2) of his/her accumulated sick days to the Bank. Days contributed to the Bank are exhausted, non- returnable. The contributed days will be placed in accordance with the following provisionsBank as a dollar value as of the date of contribution based upon the contributor's daily wage rate. Please see The daily wage rate is determined by multiplying the definitions contributor's regularly assigned hours per day by the contributor's hourly rate of sick leave under Article IVpay. Enrollment in the Bank shall be continuous from year to year until a member withdraws. Withdrawals are accepted only during an enrollment period and only upon written notice by the member to the SBC of his/her intent to withdraw. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank SBC shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year composed as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 a. The Superintendent or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committeehis/her designee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three b. Three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the SuperintendentUnion President. The committee SBC shall consider review and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that approve or deny all applications submittedto the Bank. The SBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to the Bank and shall notify Bank members of the need for such contributions. The SBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the Bank to the Treasurer. Decisions of the SBC are final. The SBC shall review the operation of the Bank annually, and any grants madeshall make recommendations, are if necessary, for modifications of the plan to the negotiating teams of the Union and the Board. The SBC shall operate in accordance conformity with the provisions of this contractlaw. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave provide paid days when for serious personal illness or family illness to contributors to the individual’s annual and Bank who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave days and who are exhaustedexperiencing prolonged personal or family illness. Allotments will be limited to participating employees for use only in cases of illness, injury or non- elective surgery occurring under unusual, severe or emergency conditions as determined by the SBC. Members may enroll in accordance with the following provisionsSick Leave Bank during the month of October of each school year. Please see Upon enrollment, a member shall contribute one (1) of his/her accumulated sick days to the definitions Sick Leave Bank. Days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank are non-returnable. Enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank shall be continuous from year to year until a member withdraws provided the member has met the requirements of sick leave under Article IVSection 2.a. below. Withdrawals are accepted only during an enrollment period and only upon written notice by the member to the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SBC) of his/her intent to withdraw. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year composed as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 a. The Superintendent or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committeehis designee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) b. Four members appointed by the exclusive representative and one ZEA president. c. Association members will serve a term of two (12) individual appointed by years beginning on August 1st of the Superintendentyear appointed. If a member is unable to serve the full term, the ZEA president will appoint another member to finish the term. d. The number of terms an Association member may serve on the Sick Leave Bank Committee is unlimited. The committee SBC shall consider review and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that approve or deny all applications submittedto the Sick Leave Bank. The SBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to the Bank and shall notify Bank members of the need for said contributions. The SBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the Sick Leave Bank to the treasurer. Decisions of the SBC are final. The SBC shall review the operation of the Sick Leave Bank annually, and any grants madeshall make recommendations, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees if necessary, for modifications of the enrollment period for plan to the sick bank, including required contribution forms negotiating teams of the Association and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearBoard. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank Board shall apply establish a Sick Leave Bank in which full-time teachers are eligible to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of participate on a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesvoluntary basis. 2. A “contributing individual” The intent of this plan is one who, within to provide extended sick leave to those participants who incur a catastrophic illness or disability which necessitates prolonged continuous absence from work. The Bank shall be used only for the first thirty (30) days personal illness of the contract yearparticipant and not for illness, signs a contribution formdisability or death of any other person. 3. Such contribution A full-time teacher may enroll in the Bank by signing an authorization form shall require the assigning of agreeing to contribute one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Bank at the beginning of each year. When the total number of days in the Bank equals twice the number of participants, no yearly contribution will be required until such time that the Bank is depleted to the number of days equal to the number of participants. 4. A teacher who has contributed shall be able to utilize days from the Bank after all his/her own accrued sick leave bank days have been depleted, a three (3) day salary deduction period has transpired, and an individual may contribute up the teacher has presented satisfactory documentation from his/her doctor verifying the catastrophic and prolonged nature of the illness/disability which makes it impossible for the teacher to perform his/her assigned duties; provided that the Board retains the right to have the teacher examined by a doctor selected by the Board at the Board’s expense if there is any question raised by the doctor’s statement submitted by the employee. 5. The maximum number of days allowed for any single catastrophic prolonged illness shall be sixty (60) days. A participant will not be eligible to use the Bank again until the participant has returned to work for at least the equivalent of one full trimester. In no event shall a participant be allowed more than sixty (60) days in any one school year or one hundred twenty (120) days in any five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment consecutive year period. 36. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any Participants utilizing sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible required to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment periodreplace those days. 7. A Sick teacher withdrawing from the Bank Review Committee shall or the bargaining unit for whatever reasons will not be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by allowed to withdraw the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractcontributed days. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees At the time of retirement, a participant in the enrollment period Sick Leave Bank may withdraw from the bank up to the number of days that the participant has contributed to the bank and not used (i.e., the number of days contributed minus the number of Sick Leave Bank days used) if needed to maximize the amount of additional service credit for the sick bank, including required contribution forms TRS purposes and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearsubject to TRS regulations for Bank withdrawals. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty A two (750) days in 2)-member committee appointed by the bank at PREA shall serve as an Advisory Board to the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below Administration with respect to the previously described number of thirty (30) daysSick Leave Bank.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary a. Each certificated employee of the District shall participate in the sick leave bank to which certificated persons may bank. To participate, each employee shall contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw prescribed number of his earned sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed as determined by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2Sick Leave Bank Committee. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave Deposits to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up be made from Sept. 1 to five (5) total Oct. 15 of each year. Sick leave days if so motivated during any enrollment periodthus contributed shall be deducted from the individual's sick leave entitlement. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any b. The contributed sick leave days from the shall form a fund of sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish days that will be available to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve eligible participating employees upon recommendations of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In Committee for the even a teacher is disabled as a result purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or reoccurring illness or injury of a different nature during beyond the same school year, any additional employee's accumulated sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committeeleave. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature The total number of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall that may be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate contributed in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives school calendar year will equal no more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms 180 days. The total number of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from in the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancyexceed 360 days. j. Teachers who, as d. Application for use of the beginning bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for their recommendation. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the school year in which employee. If the committee deems necessary, it shall require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made. e. The committee shall have the authority to establish such guidelines as it deems necessary to implement this program. Guidelines shall have the approval of the Executive Committee of the Association and the Board of Trustees. 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. f. In order for a professional employee to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the sick leave bank benefits are requested the employee must first have been absent from work due to illness or accident for: (1) all his accumulated sick leave days and used, have accumulated one (1) day where his salary was reduced in full. g. The maximum number of days that can be granted in any one fiscal year will be the following remaining number of days an employee is scheduled to work under his current contract. In no case will the granting of leave cause an employee to receive more than his annual salary for that year. h. The number of sick leave days under granted shall not exceed the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days absent from work due to illness or accident. i. Bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another; all such grants will end at the termination of the school year. If a certificated employee does not use all of the days granted by the bank, the unused sick leave bank days will be returned to the bank. A certificated employee will be eligible for a maximum of 180 days sick leave in any single one year as follows:of employment. (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days j. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of two (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative Association and one (1) individual member appointed by the SuperintendentBoard. The Committee shall develop and distribute rules and procedures for the orderly administration of the bank not consistent with the terms of this agreement. The committee shall consider be responsible for reporting District's accounting office the names of contributors and review the number of days contributed. It shall report all requests for use of sick days granted by the bank days to ensure that and all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period other information necessary for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearemployee's records. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Board shall initiate a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and Sick Leave Bank upon receiving authorizations from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions minimum of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member seventy-five percent (75%) of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days members of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of Bargaining Unit to deduct one (1) day of accumulated sick leave for the purpose of establishing a Sick Leave Bank. The annual enrollment period shall be from the opening of school until Friday of the first full week in October for all members of the Bargaining Unit not previously enrolled. Any days left in the Bank at the expiration of this Agreement shall be carried over for use during the next school year. The Bank shall be administered by a committee composed of five (5) members appointed by the President of the exclusive Bargaining Unit. Each of the following levels: high school, middle school, elementary, and preschool, will be represented on the committee. The committee shall review applications for membership in the Bank and shall grant, deny or suspend grants of leave from the Bank. The decisions of the committee shall be final. The committee shall select one of their committee members to serve as chairperson for the duration of this Agreement. A majority of committee members shall be required for any official action of the committee. In cases of a tie vote, the entire committee will be asked to vote again. If the committee cannot break the tie, the President of the exclusive Bargaining Unit shall break the tie. Application for use of Sick Leave Bank days shall be made in writing to the sick leave bank chairperson of the committee responsible for administering the Bank. The application shall be accompanied by a statement from the attending physician describing the nature of the disability, treatment being rendered, and an individual may contribute prognosis for a return to work. A maximum of fifteen (15) Bank days shall be allowed for a teacher during a contract year. Each applicant for Bank days shall consent to submit to medical examination and/or review of her/his medical history if it is deemed necessary by the committee. In cases of extenuating circumstances relating to a major illness or accident when a teacher has need of up to five (5) total additional days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure contract year in lieu of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) granted at the discretion of the Sick committee. An application must accompany this request. If a teacher has need of up to ten (10) additional sick leave days during a contract year to assist in meeting the ninety (90) day waiting period for long-term disability, such days shall be granted at the discretion of the committee. Proof from the long-term disability insurance company must be provided to be granted these days. Teachers may borrow days from the Bank Review Committee. 6in lieu of days for which they would have been paid had they not been disabled. Should Applicants to the sick leave bank fall cannot have an outstanding balance that is due and owing to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollmentapplication. Upon return to work, the teacher shall repay the Bank for days owed (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the rate of three (3) days per year. A member can pay back more days in a year, if they so choose. If a member retires, resigns, or for other reasons leaves the Corporation before repaying the Bank, the debt shall be repaid in full from the member’s accumulated sick leave. If there are not sufficient accumulated sick leave days to repay the sick leave bank, the balance of the debt shall be waived and be collected at the current corporation rate of substitute pay for substitutes with 60+ credit hours. Upon the accumulation of two hundred (200) sick leave days, a teacher may contribute one (1) additional day each year to the Sick Leave Bank. The committee shall meet during the school year as required at times mutually agreeable to members. An individual who applies for use of sick leave bank days will have an answer within no contribution more than three work weeks of application. The chair of the committee will provide monthly updates to both the Association President and the Superintendent of the days available in the bank, number of days granted, and the name and building of individual(s) receiving days. An end of year report will also be shared with the Association President and Superintendent by June 30th. Denials to use the sick leave bank will be necessary unless it falls below reported in writing to the previously described number President and Superintendent. Sick leave bank forms are found in Appendix D. The decision of thirty (30) daysthe Sick Leave Bank committee will be final and may not be grieved.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Nelsonville-York City School District Board of Education shall establish a voluntary Sick Leave Bank which will allow individual bargaining unit members to donate up to ten (10) days of sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave each eligible applicant. Bargaining unit members with less than one hundred (100) days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave shall not be eligible to contribute. A. To qualify for the Sick Leave Bank, an employee or a member of the employee’s immediate family as defined in Article 41-Sick Leave, must have experienced a catastrophic or extended illness or injury and the employee must have exhausted his/her sick leave and personal leave. The Sick Leave Bank cannot be used beyond the current school year. B. Sick Leave Bank days are exhaustedmay not be used to defer application for or receipt of disability retirement benefits. C. Request for use of Sick Leave Bank days will be considered on a case by case basis. A committee, in accordance with composed of two (2) Board appointed members and two (2) Association appointed members and a mutually agreeable fifth member, will make a determination based on the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVcriteria. 1. The employee will request that additional sick leave bank shall apply days be transferred to all persons employed by his or her credit from the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesSick Leave Bank. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days The total use of the contract Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed the current school year, signs a contribution form. 3. Such contribution form The Committee will notify the Treasurer in writing as to the number of days to be donated and the name of the employee to receive the days. This notice will authorize the Board’s Treasurer to transfer the days to the identified employee. 4. The treasurer shall require transfer days from the assigning of one (1) Bank in an amount necessary to take the requesting bargaining unit member to the last teacher work day of that school year unless fewer days are requested. 5. Unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. The number of days in the bank shall be given to the Association President during the month of September of any year. D. Effective with the ratification of this agreement, the Association will notify its members through a general announcement or newsletter of the nature of the Sick Leave Bank and their ability to contribute. Included in this notice shall be a signed statement by the employee transferring the sick leave. Bargaining unit members are allowed to donate up to ten (10) sick leave days a year. 1. All employees agreeing to transfer sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank shall send the signed notice to the Association President or Designee. The Association President shall provide all signed notices to the Board’s treasurer. 2. Affected employees pay stubs and employee records will reflect donated sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodrather than used sick leave days. 3. A person Sick Leave Bank transfer shall cease to be a contributing individual upon completed by October 1 of any school year. No transfer shall be done after this date unless the failure number of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from in the Sick Leave Bank falls below fifty (50) donated days. 4. The maximum number of days allowed in the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank at any one time shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal two hundred (200) donated days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for Unused days will roll over into the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same next school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall . If more than two hundred days are donated they will be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those donating members proportionally. Unused days on which will roll over into the next year. Doors: 1. Lock and unlock 2. Have a keyhole with a key 3. Latch and lock securely 4. Have a window, or be installed with a window into the hall Windows: 1. Unbroken 2. Weatherproof 3. Clean and functional (can open and shut) 4. Have working screens and blinds or fireproof curtains Lights: 1. Adequate lighting 2. Working light switch (teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. has key when applicable) Emergency evacuation: 1. Plans for fire, tornado, lockdown drills clearly marked and up-to-date with current building procedures 2. Working fire alarm including flashing light 3. Exits as per fire code Ceilings: 1. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay tiles in good repair 2. No leaks Walls: 1. Cleaned regularly 2. Painted regularly Floors: 1. Tiles are clean, intact, and free from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidaysbreaks or hazards 2. Tiles are waxed regularly 3. Carpets clean, if anyintact, shall not be charged against the sick leave bankand free from wrinkles, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employmentbumps, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following tears Electrical Outlets: 1. All outlets work 2. An adequate number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (outlets are provided for teacher Wastebasket: 1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.At least two

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toAll teachers who have contributed to the Sick Leave Bank will be eligible to utilize the bank, subject to the Sick Leave Bank Policy developed and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave maintained by the Association. a. Donation to bank: 1. Each teacher upon employment shall contribute one (1) day to the bank. If at the end of the year, the bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave has dropped below five hundred (500) days, each teacher will 2. Sick days, as contributed and from which withdrawn under the terms of this Agreement, will be prorated to reflect an individual teacher’s assignment (for example, a contributing individual .5 part-time teacher will contribute and be entitled to utilize .5 sick days). 3. A full or part-time teacher who is hired at the beginning of or during the second semester will contribute one half (1/2) day at the beginning of employment. 4. A teacher may draw sick opt-out of the Sick Leave Bank by providing written notice to the Association within 30 calendar days of employment with the District. Sick leave days when contributed to the individual’s annual and Bank may not be returned to an individual teacher. 5. If, during the school year, the bank drops below fifty (50) days, each teacher will donate one (1) additional day. If a teacher shall have exhausted all accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of to the bank shall be made as soon as the same is available. Anything in this sub-section to the contrary notwithstanding, a teacher shall not be compelled to donate more than one (1) day per school year. b. The teacher's own accrued sick leave shall be totally depleted before the bank can be utilized. c. The Association shall administer the Bank according to the terms of the Sick Leave Bank Policy. The Association will regularly share information with the District regarding sick leave bank participation, requests, usage, and an individual may contribute up banked totals, and will make each other aware of any other issues or questions relating to five (5) total days if so motivated during the administration of the Bank. Sick Leave Bank requests will be processed through a jointly-designed form shared between the employee requesting the leave, ETAWC, and the District Human Resources office. Additionally, a yearly report, will be jointly prepared by the Association and the District. The report will reflect donations and usage for the past school year. The association agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Board, its members, employees, and agents for and against any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual claims, grievances, actions, causes of action, or liability resulting from the Association’s operation and administration of the Sick Leave Bank, including, but not limited to, any claims based upon the failure committee's denial of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. an eligible employees application for Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the requestLeave Bank benefits. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work that any claims, grievances, actions, causes of action, or liability resulting from the Association’s operation and then finds it necessary on advice administration of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days Sick Leave Bank in any form shall be deducted brought against the Board, its members, employees, and/or agents, the Board, at the Association's expense, shall retain the right to select counsel to defend such claims, grievances, actions, causes of action or liability subject to the approve approval of the Association. Said approval will not be unreasonably withheld. Employees may not grieve decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject according to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.Collective Bargaining Agreement,

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank 1. Contribution to which certificated persons the bank. Employees may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up in one (1) to five (5) full day increments. Bargaining unit members will elect their sick leave bank contributions in an online form to the payroll department by September 1 of each year. Donations may come from sick leave with each donated day reducing the employee’s accrued sick leave by the same amount. Days donated to the bank will forever be forfeited by the employee. If the sick leave bank falls below a total of 60 days if so motivated during the year, the Association President may request additional donated days by following the same procedure as outlined in the above paragraph during a 30 day window of time. The maximum number of days any enrollment periodmember may donate in a school year is eight (8) days. A member may not donate days during the ninety (90) calendar days prior to the member’s retirement. 32. A person shall cease to be Use of Donated Days In the event of catastrophic or prolonged, or chronic illness of a contributing individual upon bargaining unit member, spouse, domestic partner, child, parent or birth of a child or member of their immediate family, a bargaining unit member who has exhausted their sick leave may request, through the failure Association, transfer of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any unused sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming to the affected bargaining unit member to be used as sick leave. The request will be reviewed by a contributing committee comprised of the Association President, Association Vice President and the Superintendent with a decision reached by majority vote of that Committee. A letter of notification of the granting or rejecting of the request and, if appropriate, the number of days granted, will be delivered to the applicant. The decision made by the committee is final and cannot be the subject of a grievance. The bargaining unit member does not have to use the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure ten days of sick leave advanced discussed in paragraph two Article V, Section (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use A) sick leave before requesting use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal daysleave. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time Guidelines for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case administering this provision will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up a. A doctor’s statement will be required and included with the request for sick leave in order for it to 60 be considered. b. Sick leave days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may will be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) paid at the discretion 100% of the Sick Bank Review Committeerequesting bargaining unit member‘s daily rate of pay. 6. Should the c. The receiving bargaining unit member will not earn sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment periodor personal leave while using donated leave days. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. d. The committee shall consider and review all requests for receiving bargaining unit member cannot use of sick bank donated days to ensure that all applications submittedextend the date on which their disability retirement takes effect, and any grants made, are in accordance if applicable. e. The receiving bargaining unit member cannot use a total of more than sixty (60) donated leave days during their employment with the provisions of this contractBexley Schools. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by Board of Education will cooperate in the school corporation whose employment requires the holding operation of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member Sick Leave Bank. All certified professional personnel of the bargaining unit may participate in the bank on a voluntary yearly basis. First year teachers will have the option to be granted 10 sick days of which two will be placed in the Teacher Sick Leave Bank. Exceptions to this contract appliesArticle will be individuals who are on short or long term disability. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days The primary purpose of the contract yearSick Leave Bank is to protect an employee’s earning power during periods of protracted and unavoidable absence due to his/her incapacity to perform the responsibilities of his/her assignment. 3. Each individual teacher, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require except first year teachers, may join the assigning of Sick Leave Bank only after she/he donates one (1) day and only one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up submit his/her authorization to five (5) total days if so motivated join. The authorization to join must be made within the health insurance policy’s open enrollment period at the beginning of each participatory year. Teachers opting to not enroll in the Sick Leave Bank during any the open enrollment period. 3. A person period shall cease be denied membership to be a contributing individual upon the failure bank for the duration of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following that school year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish In the establishment of the Sick Leave Bank, each employee that agrees to become “contributing individuals” take part in the Sick Leave Bank will donate one (1) day as described in section C of this article. The Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed three hundred (300) days. First year teachers may do so by following the procedure in paragraph join with two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period) days regardless of accumulated days. 5. Use A member will donate one day of his/her sick leave to the bank only when the tabulation drops below two hundred days (200). When the bank falls below the two hundred days (200), an additional day will be taken from all participating members at the start of the sick leave bank shall following year. No days will be subject to deducted from any employee if the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as deduction of the teacher has exhausted days from any or all accumulated sick daysparticipating employees causes the maximum, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need outlined in section D of this article, to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committeeexceeded. 6. Should A person withdrawing from membership in the sick leave bank fall will not be able to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward withdraw the subsequent enrollment periodcontributed days. 7. A Upon depletion of a member’s own accumulated sick leave, he/she must wait an additional ten (10) school days before drawing from the Sick Leave Bank. The ten (10) school days may be paid retroactively when or if the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee has authorized a grant. 8. Maximum withdrawal will not exceed 90 days per person per year. When, and only when, the teacher is eligible for LTD, the total amount of days that may be withdrawn shall be formed no more than the number of days needed between the member’s accumulated sick leave and the time period that is required before long term disability (LTD) takes effect. 9. A person who is on lay off or on a non-compensated leave of absence shall not be able to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank except as specified in section J of this article. 10. A member of the Sick Leave Bank on a non-compensable leave of absence due to reason of disability is eligible to apply for coverage by the bank and may use these non-compensable days to satisfy the waiting period of (10) days as mentioned in section G of this article. 11. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will control the Sick Leave Bank and retroactive withdrawals. The committee shall consist of the President and Vice President of the Association, the Superintendent and the employees immediate supervisor. Granting of Sick Leave Bank withdrawal and retroactive pay shall be comprised secret ballot with each member of the committee having one and only one equal vote. Simple majority of the vote will rule. 12. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may request documentation verifying incapacity to perform his/her teaching responsibilities and his/her need to Sick Leave Bank withdrawal. 13. Any participating teacher who, has used days from the Sick Leave Bank, will not be required to pay back those days the first time they utilize the Sick Leave Bank. Any participating teacher who has requested to withdraw days two (2) or more times will repay the number of days used by donating no less than three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and of his/her accumulated sick leave. These three (3) days will apply toward repayment, plus one (1) individual appointed by additional day will be donated from his/her accumulated sick leave, which is needed for Sick Leave Bank participation. This one (1) day does not apply toward repayment of day(s) used. Donations will be at the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees start of the enrollment period for contract year until all withdrawn days are replaced. Teachers who use days from the sick bank, including required contribution forms Sick Leave Bank and appropriate deadlines, within the first five do not continue participation will repay Sick Leave Bank days used by forfeiting seven (57) school days of each school yearaccumulated sick leave days per year until repayment equals the days withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toBoard, and in cooperation with the Association, hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1Sick Leave Bank (hereinafter “Bank”). The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member intent of the bargaining unit Bank is to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of provide extended sick leave to eligible teachers who incur a period of prolonged personal illness or disability or that of an “immediate family member” for whom the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five teacher has direct caregiving responsibility. (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon “Immediate Family” as defined in the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2Illinois School Code 105 ILCS 5/24-6). Staff who hire in after For purposes of this section and Appendix C, the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank term “prolonged” shall be defined as the teacher’s absence from work for a period of at least ten (10) work days per disability and/or illness. The Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. Eligible teachers’ participation in the Bank shall be on a voluntary basis, subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay rules and regulations attached hereto as long as Appendix C. All matters that concern the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick policies and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve administration of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted governed by the Federal Medical Association. Sick Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank Bank may not be used for maternity purposes of cosmetic surgery (except as such that is required after an accident or childbirth leave, but injury) and/or for any matter which may be used for any physical disability arising out of reasonably postponed to a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as recess or vacation period. The Association agrees with respect to the operation of the beginning Sick Leave Bank that it will hold harmless and defend the Board, its members, employees and/or agents as regards any action, complaint, or suit of any type. In the event any action, complaint or suit of any type in any form shall be brought against the Board, its members, employees and/or agents, the Board shall retain the exclusive right to select counsel to defend such action, complaint, or suit and/or to determine whether such action, complaint, or suit should be compromised or settled. It is expressly acknowledged and understood that, although the Association can approve “withdrawals” from the Bank, the Association does not have the authority to grant “leave” to any employee of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested District and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, no teacher shall be eligible considered to draw up to a maximum number of be on leave based solely on the fact that he/she was granted days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6Bank. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested The Board has and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by reserves the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days right to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are administer employee leaves in accordance with state and federal laws, regulations, any applicable Board Policy and the negotiated provisions of this contractthe CBA. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toSick Leave Bank is designed to assist members who experience a serious accident or major illness for which they do not have adequate sick leave. To be eligible, a bargaining unit member must have used all available sick leave, vacation leave and personal leave, including the ten (10) days advanced, and hereby establishes be recovering from a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave specific illness or injury of twenty (20) consecutive days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisionsor more. Please see the definitions The amount of sick leave awarded from the Sick Leave Bank under this program shall not exceed the number of days remaining in the current contract year, the number available in the pool, or no more than sixty-five (65) days in one contract year. An employee will only use the Sick Leave Bank on a calendar leave basis i.e.: April 1, 2018 – April 1, 2019. There shall be no exceptions to the bank, except if the employee has experienced another catastrophic occurrence then the committee will address the issue but their decision shall not be grievable. The administration of the Sick Leave Bank shall be based upon dollars and not days. When days are specified in Article IV.29, the conversion to dollars (daily rate of employee times quantity of days) shall occur regardless of whether the language specifies days or dollar. The existing balance in the Sick Leave Bank shall be converted into dollars based upon the current average hourly rate for 2014- 2015 of thirteen dollars sixty cents ($13.60) times the average number of hours per day for 2014-2015 of five point eight-four hours (5.84). Days contributed into or withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank shall be converted into dollars. The bank shall be administered by a committee composed of two (2) administrators and two (2) bargaining unit members. The bargaining unit members shall be appointed by the Association President. The committee shall develop guidelines, necessary forms and any procedures for administrating the Sick Leave Bank. The decision of the committee is final and not grievable under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Bargaining unit members will be considered for use of the Sick Leave Bank who have: 1. The used all available sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by leave, vacation leave, and personal leave, plus the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesten (10) advanced. 2. A “contributing individual” presented a physician's certificate indicating an absence due to a single illness or accident that will last or exceed twenty (20) consecutive days. The committee may require a second opinion. 3. contributed to the sick leave pool of this program; eligibility is one who, within to be based on the first thirty contribution of a sick leave day by October 15 of the current school year. The Sick Leave Bank is formed from the contribution of up to three (303) days of accumulated sick leave from each member who chooses to participate in the contract program. The window for donations will be October 1 to October 15 of each year. Once a day is contributed to the bank, signs it cannot be withdrawn. Members are not eligible to use the Sick Leave Bank if: 1. they have not donated a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of accumulated sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period.Sick Leave Bank; 2. the surgery and/or procedure is elective; 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year.is due to normal maternity leave; 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two specific injury or illness is not twenty (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period.20) consecutive days or more; 5. Use the bargaining unit member is eligible for Worker's Compensation, SERS Disability, or a personally purchased disability plan. The number of days permitted to accumulate in the Sick Leave Bank shall be one hundred eighty (180) days. Members new to the program must make an initial contribution to be eligible. When the Sick Leave Bank has accumulated one hundred eighty (180) days, new members desiring to be eligible may contribute a sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the requestheld in escrow. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional Escrowed days shall be deducted subject added to the approve bank as it is depleted. Any one of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result requirements of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section this program shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against have an impact on the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number administration of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank as contained in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review CommitteeArticle XVIII. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank All educational support personnel and non-certificated exempt employees shall apply have access to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesSick Leave Bank. 2. A “contributing individual” There is hereby established a Sick Leave Bank which shall be administered by a Sick Leave Committee. The committee shall consist of two members selected by the Association and one who, within member selected by the first thirty (30) days of Administration. It is the contract year, signs a contribution formCommittee's responsibility to approve or deny requests for Sick Leave Bank usage. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use The entire administration of the sick leave bank will be made by the governing committee and their decisions will be final, including the latitude to make exceptions when, in their opinion, the best interests of the member will be served. 3. Each employee enrolling in the Bank will donate one day of his/her sick leave to the bank for three (3) consecutive years. The DISTRICT will deduct this day on October 15 of each year. If the employee does not have one day to contribute they will not belong to the Bank that year, however an employee may request an extension to accrue this day. Employees will be exempt from further contributions unless the number of sick leave days contributed to the bank falls below 100 days. At that time each member will donate one (1) additional day. 4. The Business Office shall provide a statement showing current balance of Sick Leave Bank to SESPA upon request. 5. Employees may join the SESPA Sick Leave Bank during the open enrollment period of August 15 to September 30. 6. A person withdrawing from membership in the Bank will not be able to withdraw the contributed days. 7. The first ten (10) working days of illness or disability will not be covered by the Bank but must be covered by the person's own accumulated sick leave or absence without pay. 8. A person will not be able to withdraw days from the Bank until all of his/her own accrued sick and vacation leave have been depleted. 9. The number of Sick Leave Bank days available to a member shall be equal to twice the number of days of sick leave the member has accumulated on the 1st day of July in the affected school year, with a maximum of twenty four (24) days per request. In the case of multiple claims, if there aren't enough days in the bank to cover the claims in full, the available days will be split evenly between claimants. 10. Persons withdrawing Sick Leave Bank days will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member of the bank. 11. Sick leave days can only be withdrawn from the Bank for individual member's, or immediate family members illness or disability. 12. Requests for use of Bank days will be forwarded by the employee to the Sick Leave Bank Committee, and must be accompanied by a letter from the attending physician. The approval of the request shall be subject to the following limitations:attending physician's supportive statement. Approved requests will then be forwarded to payroll for processing. a. Sick bank 13. The SESPA leave form shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated verification of sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject donated to the approve Sick Leave Bank. 14. Qualification for Membership and Use of Sick Leave Bank. a. Only contributing members of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committeeare eligible to use it. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of Members may use the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for only after they have completed their probationary period in the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature DISTRICT. Date of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case hire will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7determine eligibility. A Sick person may contribute to the Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review as soon as all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, other requirements are in accordance with the provisions of this contractmet. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. 6.1 The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank primary purpose of the Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when provide members income protection in the individual’s annual and event the member's illness or injury exhausts his accumulated sick leave before his income protection insurance begins. Once the employee is eligible for the long term insurance benefit, the teacher can no longer use sick days are exhausted, in accordance with from the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVSick Leave Bank while on long term disability. 1. The 6.2 A certificated school employee who is absent from assigned duty due to sickness and who has utilized all of their sick leave, and all other paid leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding benefits of whatever nature, may petition a license issued by the Indiana Department of Educationcommittee, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one whoas established herein, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick for leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearbank. 46.3 Said certificated employee must have chosen to participate in the program by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank. Present The membership enrollment period each year shall be from the first contract day of the school year until September 15. Donated sick leave days shall be used to maintain the Bank and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so are non-refundable. 6.4 Said certificated employee shall have utilized and exhausted all paid leave benefits of whatever nature, including their own accumulated sick leave, and the teacher shall have been absent for at least three (3) consecutive duty days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits before his petition for leave days from the bank shall be considered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The CTA President must be notified within one (1) business day of a request from HR. 6.5 Said certificated employee must provide written certification from his physician substantiating his sickness and certifying that his absence shall continue during a period of at least ten (10) consecutive assigned duty days following the procedure in paragraph two utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein. Said written application must be made no later than ten (2). Staff who hire in 10) days after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodexhaustion of said paid leave benefits. 5. Use 6.6 Sick Leave Bank days will not be granted for periods of time when the employee is covered by Worker’s Compensation or has become eligible for the long term disability coverage. 6.7 A member may be required to furnish a medical report from a licensed physician at any time during the use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal daysbank. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and The medical review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidaysat the member's expense. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review each case as required. The Sick Leave Bank Committee reserves the right, if anynecessary, shall not be charged against to limit or reduce the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days granted. 6.8 Upon resumption of employment and after using days from the sick leave bank, said certificated employee must repay the number of days owed to the bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 number of days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 borrowed minus number of days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section jcontributed) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised rate of three (3) members sick leave days per year. In addition, the teacher shall continue to contribute as defined in Paragraph 6.10 below. Upon said certificated employee's retirement or in the case of any other form of termination of employment, any sick days still owed to the bank shall be deducted from the said employee’s accumulated sick leave before determining any severance or retirement benefits due him. 6.9 If said certificated employee leaves employment of the school corporation, any days owed to the bank in excess of the certificated employee's total accumulated sick leave days shall be waived. 6.10 When the number of accumulated days in the bank falls below 200 days, each member of the bank shall contribute one half (1/2) day to replenish said bank. 6.11 A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and to decide whether to allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein and guidelines established by the committee. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the exclusive representative MVCTA and one (1) individual person appointed by the SuperintendentMVCSC. The Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fourth consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the employee's said paid leave benefits, and such initial allotment by the committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of not exceed thirty (30) days. If the member exhausts the initial allotment of days, the teacher may reapply for additional days by submitting a request supported by a doctor's statement indicating the continuation of the illness and an approximate date of return to work. If the Sick Leave Bank Committee grants an extension of days to the applicant, the days take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the initial allotment of days. 6.12 If a request for use of sick leave bank days is denied by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the applicant may appeal the Committee's decision to the Appeal Board within ten (10) working days after the denial. Any decision by the Appeal Board must be by a majority vote. All decisions of the Appeal Board are final and binding, and the decision cannot be grieved under this contract. 6.13 The Appeal Board will be composed of the following three (3) persons: 1. The Superintendent or his designee. 2. The Association President or his designee. 3. One (1) member appointed by the Superintendent 4. Two (2) members appointed by the Association President.

Sick Leave Bank. 6.1 The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank primary purpose of the Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when provide members income protection in the individual’s annual and event the member's illness or injury exhausts his accumulated sick leave before his income protection insurance begins. Once the employee is eligible for the long term insurance benefit, the teacher can no longer use sick days are exhausted, in accordance with from the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVSick Leave Bank while on long term disability. 1. The 6.2 A certificated school employee who is absent from assigned duty due to sickness and who has utilized all of their sick leave, and all other paid leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding benefits of whatever nature, may petition a license issued by the Indiana Department of Educationcommittee, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one whoas established herein, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick for leave days from the sick leave bank. 6.3 Said certificated employee must have chosen to participate in the program by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank. The membership enrollment period each year shall be from the first contract day of the school year until September 15. Donated sick leave days shall be used to maintain the Bank and are non-refundable. 6.4 Said certificated employee shall have utilized and exhausted all paid leave benefits of whatever nature, including their own accumulated sick leave, and the teacher shall have been absent for at least three (3) consecutive duty days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits before his petition for leave days from the bank until becoming shall be considered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The CTA President must be notified within one (1) business day of a contributing request from HR. 6.5 Said certificated employee must provide written certification from his physician substantiating his sickness and certifying that his absence shall continue during a period of at least ten (10) consecutive assigned duty days following the utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein. Said written application must be made no later than ten (10) days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits. 6.6 Sick Leave Bank days will not be granted for periods of time when the employee is covered by Worker’s Compensation or has become eligible for the long term disability coverage. 6.7 A member may be required to furnish a medical report from a licensed physician at any time during the use of the sick leave bank. The medical review will be at the member's expense. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review each case as required. The Sick Leave Bank Committee reserves the right, if necessary, to limit or reduce the number of days granted. 6.8 Upon resumption of employment and after using days from the bank, said certificated employee must repay the number of days owed to the bank (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the rate of three (3) sick leave days per year. In addition, the teacher shall continue to contribute as defined in Paragraph 6.10 below. Upon said certificated employee's retirement or in the case of any other form of termination of employment, any sick days still owed to the bank shall be deducted from the said employee’s accumulated sick leave before determining any severance or retirement benefits due him. 6.9 If said certificated employee leaves employment of the school corporation, any days owed to the bank in excess of the certificated employee's total accumulated sick leave days shall be waived. 6.10 When the number of accumulated days in the bank falls below 200 days, each member of the bank shall contribute one half (1/2) day to replenish said bank. 6.11 A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and to decide whether to allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein and guidelines established by the committee. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the MVCTA and one (1) person appointed by the MVCSC. Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fourth consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the employee's said paid leave benefits, and such initial allotment by the committee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. If the member exhausts the initial allotment of days, the teacher may reapply for additional days by submitting a request supported by a doctor's statement indicating the continuation of the illness and an approximate date of return to work. If the Sick Leave Bank Committee grants an extension of days to the applicant, the days take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the initial allotment of days. 6.12 If a request for use of sick leave bank days is denied by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the applicant may appeal the Committee's decision to the Appeal Board within ten (10) working days after the denial. Any decision by the Appeal Board must be by a majority vote. All decisions of the Appeal Board are final and binding, and the decision cannot be grieved under this contract. 6.13 The Appeal Board will be composed of the following yearthree (3) persons: 1. The Superintendent or his designee. 2. The Association President or his designee. 3. One (1) member appointed by the Superintendent 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two Two (2). Staff who hire in after ) members appointed by the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodAssociation President. 5. Use No member appointed to the Appeal Board may be a member of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 6. The Association President/designee shall act as a chairperson of the Appeal Board. 6.14 Any days granted by the committee shall terminate on the earliest of the following dates: (A) the day after the last day of the term of employment for the school year; (B) the day after the last day of allotted number of days granted by the Committee; or (C) the first day of return to employment. 6.15 Any certificated employee who does not wish to participate in the sick leave bank shall be subject must waive that right in writing and send one (1) copy of such written notice to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick MVCTA president and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject one (1) copy to the approve Office of the Sick Bank Review CommitteeSuperintendent. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time 6.16 No certificated employee who uses days granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave apply such days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment periodstate requirement of 120 teaching days per year for service credit on the salary schedule. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs Employees who have given a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day to the Sick Leave Bank for the current school year will be eligible to apply for Sick Leave Bank Benefits. Employee requirements for joining the Sick Leave Bank are the following: • Contributions to the Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed one (1) day per year per employee. • The employee must be a school district employee for a minimum of one (1) year, based on the anniversary date of hire and must work a minimum of 5 hours/day, 5 days/week (25 hrs/week). • The employee must have a minimum of one (1) year accumulation of sick leave as of July 30th. • Contributions will be taken during the first pay period in October, annually. An employee who has been absent from work due to the sick leave bank a medically certifiable long-term and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of prolonged illness or injury of a different nature during the same school yearresulting in disability, any additional and who has exhausted his/her own personal days, vacation days, compensatory time and sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidaysaccumulation, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum of one year of his/her scheduled "work year" number of days from a Sick Leave Bank established by CSEA employees under the following procedures: a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will not allocate Sick Leave Bank Benefits for elective procedures or maternity (see Sick Bank Application for conditions to maternity benefits). b. An employee must request an application from the Sick Leave Bank Chairperson; that application together with a written report from his/her physician shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Chairperson for review and decision by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. c. The application, together with the written report, must be approved by the school district medical personnel or School Nurse Coordinator. d. If the application, together with the written report is denied by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, an appeal may be submitted to the Unit's President and Board of Directors for their review and final decision. e. Periodic (monthly minimum) verification of continuation of illness or disability must be submitted to the Employer and Sick Leave Bank Chairperson from the employee's physician. This information will be reviewed and a decision will be reached as to the employee's eligibility for continuation of Sick Leave Bank Benefits. f. Payment of such sick leave bank in will take into account any single year other benefits the employee is receiving such as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 Workers Compensation or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion Disability Insurance. Records of voluntary contributions and use of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. 6days shall be made available by the Employer upon request by the Union President, at reasonable intervals, for inspection. Should A computer printout of the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a prior school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A 's Sick Leave Bank Review Committee activity shall be formed and submitted to the Union President by the last working day in September, annually. Any days unused in any given year shall be comprised permitted to remain in the Sick Leave Bank. Any contributions by employees in a subsequent year shall be limited to the difference in the number of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendentdays necessary to make a maximum total of 500 days effective June 30, 2005. The committee shall consider and review all requests Union may make a second request for use contributions during the same school year if the balance of sick bank days drops below 275 days. Prior to ensure that all applications submittedmaking said request of its unit members, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions Union shall first seek prior approval of this contract. 8the Superintendent of Schools to do so. The school district Sick Leave Bank will be administered by the Union and the resolution of any disputes as to the allocation of Sick Leave Bank days to eligible employees shall notify certificated employees be the sole responsibility of the enrollment period for Union. The Employer shall have no responsibility or obligation with respect to the sick bank, including required contribution forms administration of the Sick Leave Bank. Any and appropriate deadlines, within all decisions made by the first five (5) school days of each school yearSick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and binding and shall not be subject to the grievance procedure. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. 14.08.01 The school corporation agrees toSick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC) will be comprised of the Superintendent, an Administrative Designee, an Association President, and hereby establishes an Association Designee. These four (4) committee members will be charged with the administration of the Sick Leave Bank. If either party of this co-chaired committee believes guidelines and/or forms need to be reviewed for revision, they may propose revision to the other party. The Board and the Association must ratify any revisions. 14.08.02 If a voluntary sick leave bank vacancy occurs on the SLBC, the authority making the original appointment shall appoint a replacement for the vacant position. 14.08.03 In general, the Sick Leave Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave provide paid days when the individual’s annual and for serious personal illness or family illness to employees who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave days and who are exhausted, in accordance with experiencing prolonged personal or family illness as determined by the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVSLBC. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is 14.08.04 An application will be considered only after a member has used all of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all his/her accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick days and personal days. Days However, if an employee has previously been approved for sick leave bank days and needs additional days after returning to work briefly (e.g., additional days off for a cancer patient who needs chemotherapy), then a new application will not be required. If an employee is within fifteen (15) work days of exhausting all available sick leave and the employee knows more paid days are going to be needed, the committee will meet to begin review of the application so there will be no interruption of paid sick leave. It is understood that unpaid FMLA days will not have to be used before paid days from the Sick Leave Bank can be granted and used but it is understood that the FMLA days will run concurrently with the sick days that the employee is using during the illness or injury giving rise to the application for sick leave bank days. It is further understood that if an employee is incapacitated and cannot make application to the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or Association designee will be allowed to apply for the employee. 14.08.05 A signed doctor’s statement detailing the reason(s) the employee cannot return to work; and an estimated number of additional days the employee may be off work, will need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event included with a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject member’s application submitted to the approve SLBC. 14.08.06 The intent of Sick Leave Bank is to provide paid days for catastrophic illness. A “catastrophic illness” is defined as one that: 1) immediately threatens the life of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher employee and/or his/her immediate family member, or 2) is disabled as a result of an illness or injury of that is certified by a different nature during doctor that is likely to require the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject employee to approval of be absent from work for a period exceeding ninety (90) consecutive days and which will likely result in the Sick employee qualifying for STRS disability. Days will not be received from the Bank Review Committeefor absences due to childbirth (natural or cesarean section) unless there has been a serious compelling illness or disability caused under such circumstances to mother or child that qualify under the definition set forth above. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. 14.08.07 Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used received from the Sick Leave Bank for maternity or childbirth leaveabsences due to disabilities, but may be used which qualify the member for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancyWorkers’ Compensation personal benefits, unless the member has exhausted all such benefits and his/her own accumulated sick days. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible 14.08.08 Contributions to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committeeshall not count against a member’s record of perfect attendance. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The A. A sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be established by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued Boardfor use by participating teachers. The teacher committee will be comprised of: 1. Two (2) Association members appointed by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesAssociation president. 2. A “contributing individual” is One (1) employee appointed by the Superintendent. 3. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. B. To be eligible for membership in the Sick Leave Bank, the employee: 1. Xxxxx have completed one who, within year of employment as a full-time employee of the first thirty Board. 2. Be a full-time employee of the Board at the time of application. 3. Have a minimum of nine (309) days of accumulated sick leave and/or annual leave at the contract year, signs a contribution formdate of application. 4. Such contribution Shall apply for membership on an approved form during the enrollment period. This form shall require be submitted to the assigning Assistant Superintendent Human Resources. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary on the part of each employee. C. Each participating member shall contribute one (1) day of sick leave to the bank upon enrollment. Membership applications shall be submitted during the first twenty (20) workdays of a 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 Deductions. D. Each participating employee shall contribute, by way of deduction from their official sick leave bank 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) days in any one school year, after the initial membership contribution of one (1) day. The committee shall notify members in writing of the necessary contributions. Members shall have ten (10) working days in which to request withdrawal from the program rather than donate the requested day. Any participating member, who is unable to donate a day of sick leave at the time for contribution to be made, shall contribute their next available sick leave day or be removed from membership. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this article shall be removed from the accumulated sick leave balance of the employee donating such leave and an individual shall not be available to the donating employee as sick leave. E. Membership shall be on a continuing basis unless a letter requesting withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank is submitted to the Human Resources 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 already contributed. F. Members needing to utilize days in the Sick Leave Bank will request the needed number of days on a Sick Leave Bank Program Withdrawal Application form with the medical statement attached within seven (7) working days of return to work. The application must be completed in full. A participating employee may contribute up to be eligible for sick leave from the Bank only after having met the following conditions: 1. Has used all his/her accumulated sick leave. 2. Is not eligible for Worker's Compensation pay. 3. Is not eligible for Injury in Line-of-Duty pay as granted by rule of School Board. 4. Has been absent from employment for at least five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodconsecutive working days. 35. A person shall cease 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. X. Xxxx leave credit, up to thirty (30) days, may be granted to a contributing individual participating member applicant at the discretion and upon the failure authority of such individual 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 sign such contribution form a participating employee shall be used for absence due to the employee's personal catastrophic illness, accident, or injury. Mental/emotional illnesses and such individual shall thereafter pregnancy will not be entitled 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 draw any sick leave grant fifteen (15) additional days in hardship situations. Once days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member are granted, the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use use of the sick leave bank days will begin on the fourth (4th) day without pay. These days without pay shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave in addition to, and shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no start after, any days without pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick daysstipulated in Article XVII, as well as all annual sick Sections A.3.e; A.3.f; and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.A.

Sick Leave Bank. a. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Board shall establish a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons bank. Participating Teachers may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which borrow a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions limited number of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming Sick Leave Bank for the care of any immediate family member and/or as a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use result of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacherTeacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committeeillness. b. In the even event that a teacher is disabled as a result Teacher has not already submitted the statement of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying an attending physician verifying the nature of the illness in conjunction with a Board approved leave, the Teacher shall be required to submit such medical certification information prior to becoming eligible to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank. c. To establish the Sick Leave Bank, all participating Teachers must donate two (2) of their accumulated and prognosis report credited sick leave days. A Teacher wishing to participate must donate such days by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office on or before September 30th for the teacher2019-2020 school year. Teachers who are employed less than full-time shall donate days on a prorated basis and receive borrowed days on a prorated basis. If a participating Teacher’s return bank of paid sick days is depleted at the time of enrollment, the Teacher may instead donate accrued personal business leave. However, no participating Teacher may borrow personal business days to workenroll in the Sick Leave Bank. At the conclusion of each school year, the Sick Leave Bank’s unused days will be carried over to the next school year. d. Days taken from Participating Teachers will not be required to donate additional days to the sick leave bank shall apply only Sick Day Bank unless the Board and the Association agree that additional donations are necessary to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if keep the teacher were not under disabilitySick Leave Bank operative. e. All contractual donated days are a permanent contribution to the Sick Leave Bank and are not transferrable to another school corporation should a participating Teacher leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from their employment with the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any dayBoard. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against The Board agrees to contribute to the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of Bank a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following matching number of sick leave days under equivalent to one-half (1/2) the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum total number of days that are donated by participating teachers. g. Participating Teachers may apply to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office. The Teacher’s accumulated sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up must be exhausted prior to 60 borrowing days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of from the Sick Bank Review CommitteeLeave Bank. 6. Should h. A participating Teacher may borrow up to sixty (60) days per year, but not more than one hundred eighty (180) days during the Teacher’s employment by the Board. i. All sick leave bank fall to in excess of two hundred fifty (250) days that has been accumulated by a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee Teacher who retires shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by considered to have been donated to the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank Sick Leave Bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysretirement.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees topurpose of the Sick Leave Bank shall be to provide extended paid sick leave for employees who are members of the Greenview Education Organization who have exhausted their personally accumulated sick leave and due to personal serious illness or injury, are unable to return to work. Short-term illnesses and hereby establishes a voluntary regular maternity care are not subject to the use of the following sick leave bank provisions. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary. Each employee shall be given an application and return it to which certificated persons may the bookkeeper. Each employee shall be given an application form at the beginning of the school year and will contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave two (2) days when the individual’s annual and of his/her accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within for the first thirty year membership. Second year membership will also require a donation of two (302) days of the contract year, signs days. Subsequent years will require a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning donation of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank Review committee until a minimum of 120 days are reached. Any new employee who wishes to be a member of the Sick Bank will be required to follow the initiating schedule. In addition, the donation of days by the new employee will receive priority with the Sick Leave Bank committee. A member may begin drawing from the Sick Bank beginning the third year of membership. Any days transferred by the employee shall remain in the Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Education shall not be liable for any days transferred and shall not contribute any days to the Sick Leave Bank. If it becomes necessary to seek additional days to maintain the bank at its minimum level of 120 days, an additional day may be deducted from an employee's personal accumulation on a rotating basis. The Sick Leave Bank committee will conduct the alphabetical selection to determine who will transfer personal accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank shall be allowed to withdraw days from the Bank. In order to remain an active member, an employee must contribute to the Bank when asked by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 6. Once an employee withdraws from the Bank or elects not to seek membership, he/she shall only be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by reinitiating the requirements. No members shall be allowed to draw more than twenty (20) days during one school year and no more than forty (40) during his/her employment in the Greenview CUSD #200. The balance of days accumulated at the end of one school year shall carry over to the following year. Should the total number of days withdrawn from the Bank equal the balance at any time, the Bank will cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the next school year. Sick bank members can petition the sick bank committee and the Superintendent for additional increments of days no more than 20 at a time. A committee consisting of two (2) members selected by the GEO and two members of the administration will be selected to govern the use of the Sick Leave Bank. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank will be entitled to draw from the Bank provided the employee has exhausted his/her personally accumulated sick leave bank fall and personal leave days and has made written application to a thirty (30) day balance during a school yearthe Committee for withdrawal of days from the Bank. Should the employee be unable to make application, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendenthis/her designee may do so on his behalf. The committee application shall consider and review all requests state the reason for use the inability to return to work along with a physician's statement specifying the nature of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8employee's illness. The school district application shall notify certificated employees also state the number of days requested to be used from the Bank. Before granting the request, the Committee must elicit affirmative answers to the following: A. Is the employee listed as a current third year member of the enrollment period for Sick Leave Bank? B. Has the employee exhausted his/her personally accumulated sick bank, including required contribution forms leave and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.personal leave?

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toSick Leave Bank (SLB) may only be used for catastrophic injury, and hereby establishes non-elective surgery, or illness of the employee or immediate family member that causes extended absence from work. Days may not be received from the Bank for absences due to child birth (natural or cesarean section). Allotments will be limited to participating employees as determined by the SLB committee. A maximum number of days that a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons person may contribute unused sick leave days, and withdraw from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave the SLB is forty (40) days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance while employed with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVBowling Green City Schools. A. General Procedures 1. The sick leave bank shall apply An application for an allotment from the Sick Leave Bank will be accepted only from those individuals who have contributed to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is Bank. An application will be considered only after a member has used all of his/her accumulated sick days. Allotment from the Sick Leave Bank will be made only for absences under a member’s normal teaching contract. Allotments will not be made for absences in programs such as summer school, extended services, or any other part-time or second position held by a member with a full-time contract. Days may not be received from the Bank for absences due to disabilities which qualify the member for Workers Compensation personal benefits, unless the member has exhausted all such benefits and his/her own accumulated sick days. Days allotted from the Sick Leave Bank will be paid at 100% of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesmember’s daily rate of pay. 2. A doctor’s statement is required with the application in order for the request to be considered. The committee may request a second medical opinion at any time, at the Board’s cost and choice of physician. As a condition to such application, members agree in writing as follows: “contributing individual” is one who, within I specifically acknowledge and agree that the first thirty (30) granting of days from the SLB shall be at the sole discretion of the contract SLB committee. All decisions of the SLB committee will be final and binding and are not subject to grievance. I further agree to abide by such decision and to indemnify and hold harmless the SLB committee, the Bowling Green Education Association, and the Bowling Green City Schools.” 3. Allotments from the Sick Leave Bank shall commence on the eleventh (11th) consecutive day of absence for which a member has no accumulated sick days, and shall be renewed, upon request from the member and approval of the SBC, each ten (10) day payroll period. 4. The application shall be submitted to the Director of Human Resources on the form provided in Appendix H-2. B. Enrollment shall be during the month of September each year. New teachers hired after September 30th will have four (4) weeks to enroll. • To enroll, signs a member shall contribute one (1) accumulated sick day to the Sick Leave Bank. Days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank are non-returnable. • Enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank shall be continuous from year to year until a member withdraws. The one-time contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) accumulated sick day will keep members enrolled until he or she withdraws. • Enrollment is completed by filling out the form in Appendix H-1 and submitting it to the District Director of Human Resources. It is the Association’s responsibility to remind members of the enrollment period. • Withdrawals are accepted only during an enrollment period and only upon written notice by the member to the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SBC) of his/her intent to withdraw. • Whenever the total number of available days in the Sick Leave Bank falls below fifteen (15), the SBC may request the Sick Leave Bank enrollees to donate up to one (1) additional day of their accumulated sick leave days to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodSick Leave Bank. C. Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed as follows: 1. The Director of Human Resources. 2. The Treasurer or his/her designee. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) Two members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the SuperintendentBGEA President. The committee SBC shall consider meet and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that and approve or deny all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with to the provisions of this contract. 8Sick Leave Bank. The school district SBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to the Bank and shall notify certificated employees Bank members of the enrollment period need for said contributions. The SBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within Sick Leave Bank to the first five (5) school days Treasurer. The SBC will communicate the approval or denial of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) SLB days in writing to the bank at requesting employee. Actions of the time of open enrollment, no contribution SBC will be necessary unless it falls below decided by a majority vote of the previously described number of thirty (30) daysSBC. In cases where there is a tie, the Superintendent will be the tie-breaking vote.

Sick Leave Bank. A. Effective with the 1992-1993 school year, a Sick Leave Bank shall exist as follows: The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave provide paid days when for serious personal illness or family illness to contributors to the individual’s annual and Bank who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave days and who are exhaustedexperiencing prolonged personal or family illness. Allotments will be limited to participating employees for use only in cases of illness, injury or nonelective surgery occurring under unusual, severe or emergency conditions as determined by the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SBC). Members may enroll in accordance with the following provisionsSick Leave Bank during the month of September of each school year. Please see Upon enrollment, a Member shall contribute one (1) of his/her accumulated sick days to the definitions Sick Leave Bank. Days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank are non-returnable. Enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank shall be continuous from year to year until a Member withdraws. Withdrawals are accepted only during an enrollment period and only upon written notice by the Member to the SBC of sick leave under Article IVhis/her intent to withdraw. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year composed as follows: (1) 0-10: Up a. The Superintendent or his designee. b. Three Members appointed by the CCTA President. The SBC shall review and approve or deny all applications to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up the Sick Leave Bank. The SBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up the Bank and shall notify Bank Members of the need for said contributions. The SBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the Sick Leave Bank to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion Treasurer. Decisions of the SBC are final. The SBC shall review the operation of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school yearannually, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests make recommendations, if necessary, for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees modifications of the enrollment period for plan to the sick bank, including required contribution forms negotiating teams of the ASSOCIATION and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearBOARD. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary A. A sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when is hereby established for the individual’s benefit of employees covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their annual and accumulated sick leave and who require additional sick leave days are exhaustedto recover from illness. B. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a joint committee consisting of the Superintendent of Schools who shall serve as its chairman, in accordance two (2) members of the Committee and two (2) members appointed by the Association. In addition, the President of the Association shall serve as an ex-officio non-voting member of this committee. Said committee shall meet at such times and places as the members thereof shall mutually agree upon. Said committee shall adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the following provisions. Please see provisions of this Article, as it deems desirable and appropriate for the definitions governance and administration of the sick leave bank. The decisions of said committee on any matter pertaining to the sick leave bank may be the subject of a grievance under the terms of this Agreement but only, through and including, and not beyond, Level Three of the Grievance Procedure (Article IVIII) with the decision of the Committee being final and binding upon the aggrieved employee. 1C. The employees covered by this Agreement shall contribute sick leave days to the sick leave bank as provided in Paragraph A of Article XV. No sick leave days shall be contributed by the Committee to the sick leave bank. The sick leave bank committee shall apply not allocate sick leave days to all persons employed employees covered by this Agreement beyond the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day number of sick leave to days remaining and available in the sick leave bank at any given time. Sick leave days placed in the bank and an individual may contribute up unused at the end of a school year shall remain in the bank and shall accumulate from year to five year. When the accumulated days in the sick leave bank reach one thousand four hundred and fifty (51,450) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodor above, employees will retain their fifteenth (15th) sick day until such time as the accumulated days fall below one thousand four hundred and fifty (1,450) days. This number will be determined as of September 1 each year. 3. A person shall cease to D. Employees covered by this Agreement may be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any allocated sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member subject to the following year. 4. Present rules and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” regulations and such additional rules and regulations as may do so be adopted by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject committee pursuant to the following limitationsParagraph B above: a. Sick bank 1. No sick leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject allocated to any employee covered by this Agreement unless said employee has served continuously in the approve Blackstone-Millville Regional School District system for a period of at least one (1) year (which period is hereby defined to mean the period from September 1 of a given year to and including August 31 of the Sick Bank Review Committeeyear next following). b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional 2. Applications for sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave days shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return submitted in writing to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank committee through the Superintendent of Schools and shall apply only to those days on which be accompanied by a teacher would receive pay if doctor's certificate certifying the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual need for such additional sick leave days and the specific medical reasons therefore. The sick leave bank committee shall have the right to have the employee seeking such additional sick leave days examined by a doctor of its own choosing and the cost of said examination shall be waived while drawing pay from paid for by the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District. Sick days may be granted by the sick leave bank so that committee at a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms rate of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.thirty

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toA. All FCASA bargaining unit members on active duty with FCPS are eligible to contribute to the Sick Leave Bank (SLB). Contributors will be permitted to use the bank for payment of prolonged, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave dayscatastrophic, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhaustedincapacitating personal illness, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Educationinjury, whether or not any such person is a member quarantine of the bargaining unit member during the regularly scheduled duty days in which illness, injury or quarantine is not likely to which this contract appliespermanently disable the employee. 2B. The Board and FCASA mutually agree to permit employees classified as AMT to participate in the SLB Program. A “contributing individual” is one whoExcept where noted, AMT employees will follow the same FCASA SLB Policies and Procedures that apply to the bargaining unit members. In accordance with Board Policy 319 FCASA agrees that AMT employees are not part of the FCASA bargaining unit and are not entitled to any other FCASA-administered benefits. C. Annual rates of contribution shall be as determined by the Association and certified to the Director of Human Resources prior to July 1 of each year. Sick leave properly authorized to the SLB for contribution will not be returned if the member elects cancellation. Cancellation, on the proper form, may be elected at any time, and the member shall not be eligible to use the bank as of the effective cancellation date. D. FCASA bargaining unit members may join the SLB between July 1 and October 1. Members returning from extended leave will be permitted to contribute to the SLB within the first thirty (30) days of return to work. New bargaining unit members will be permitted to join the contract yearSLB within thirty (30) days after employment begins. E. Members of the SLB are eligible to access the sixty (60) days after their initial contribution. The Approval Committee, signs upon receipt of a contribution form. Such contribution form request for days, shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave immediately forward to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to Human Resources Department a copy of said request. The Human Resources Department shall within five (5) total business days if so motivated during inform the committee in writing of any enrollment periodconcerns or information that may have a bearing on the committee's decision. 3F. The maximum amount of SLB days drawn in a fiscal year cannot exceed one hundred twenty (120) days or an employee’s duty days, whichever is less. A person shall cease SLB withdraws are limited to be a contributing individual upon lifetime cap of 360 duty days. The FCASA Board of Directors and the failure Director of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming Human Resources or designee (1:1 vote) may waive these limitations on a contributing member the following yearcase-by-case basis. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish G. If a member is still unable to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in return to work after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use exhaustion of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank all SLB benefits, unpaid leave shall be used on made available in accordance with Article VIII, Section 8.8. In lieu of said unpaid leave, the member, at his/her option, may apply for disability retirement benefits; however, in the event that a teacher’s first day receiving member who has been retired due to disability desires to return to active duty upon the expiration of such disability retirement benefits, the Board agrees to assign the member to a position in accordance with Article VIII, Sections 8.12(D) and (E). In no pay as long as case will the teacher has exhausted granting of leave from the SLB cause a member to receive more than his/her annual salary. H. Members must exhaust all accumulated personal, annual, and sick daysleave benefits, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time make application for the ten (10)-day sick bank committee to meet and review leave grant as outlined in Article 8.2(B), before receiving leave from the requestSLB. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave Application for the same disability, no additional days use of the SLB shall be deducted subject made on the required form and submitted to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Approval Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school yearI. An Approval Committee, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative President of the Association, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, recommending approval or denial of the request, and one (1) individual appointed by communicating its decision to the Superintendentmember and the Human Resources Department. The committee shall consider develop its rules of procedures and review all requests for use shall give wide distribution of said rules upon approval of the executive committee of the Association and the Human Resources Director. J. Upon receipt of the decision of the Approval Committee, the Human Resources Department shall verify that the request is within the limits of the bank balance, the applicant's accumulated sick bank days to ensure that all applications submittedleave has been exhausted, and any grants madethe applicant's illness is prolonged, are in accordance with catastrophic, incapacitating and personal. The decision of the provisions Approval Committee shall be approved by the Human Resources Department, unless the decision of this contractthe Approval Committee is arbitrary or capricious. Upon issuance of such approval, the Human Resources Department shall forward the SLB grant to the Payroll Office. 8K. Any disputes arising from this Article shall be expedited through the grievance procedure provided herein, except that the American Arbitration Association's expedited labor arbitration rules shall govern the proceedings. L. FCASA and the Board agree that the Board will have final determination in any dispute involving AMT employees who are members of the SLB. Board decisions or interpretations involving AMT employees do not apply to the FCASA bargaining unit and are not precedent setting for the FCASA bargaining unit. M. If a member does not use all of the days granted from the bank, the unused SLB days will be returned to the bank. N. A copy of the SLB policies and procedures can be found in Appendix C. ARTICLE IX BENEFITS / INSURANCE Section 9.1 Medical, Prescription, and Vision Insurance The Board shall pay for each participating employee each year 95% of the premium cost of group medical, prescription, and vision coverage unless waived by the employee. The school district employee may elect to add employee plus one or family coverage. The Board contributes each year an amount calculated to equal 65% of that year’s premium for the Board’s family coverage plan and 72% of that year's premium for the Board's employee plus one coverage plan. Such insurance shall notify certificated employees include, but not be limited to, the following benefits: The specifications and benefits identified for the following plans are hereby appended to this Agreement: Medical - CareFirst Dental – Delta Dental Vision – CareFirst Blue Vision Plus Prescription Drugs – CVS/Caremark Section 9.2 Dental Insurance The Board shall contribute 100% of the enrollment period premium cost per participating employee, unless waived by the employee, for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days purpose of a dental plan each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toTo afford the maximum protection against a prolonged illness, the following Sick Leave Bank shall be established, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV.each teacher shall participate as follows: 1. The To qualify for the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher must be employed in the District for a period of two (2) years. At the time a teacher becomes eligible for the Bank, such teacher shall contribute one (1) sick leave bank shall apply day to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesbank. 2. A “contributing individual” is one whoWhen the Sick Leave Bank balance falls below thirty-five (35) days, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of Board will assess each teacher one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave days. One hundred percent (100%) of the teachers are required to participate, except those that are presently drawing from the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodSick Leave Bank. 3. A Review Board will be established to grant or suspend sick days from the Bank. Its judgment and/or decisions will be final. The Review Board will consist of one (1) member of the Pinconning Area School Board or its representative, and two (2) members of the Pinconning Area Education Association. Under no circumstances shall a teacher serving on the Review Board be involved in reviewing his/her own application. In such a case, the Association will select an interim representative. The parties acknowledge that information obtained during the review process is confidential and must not be disclosed to persons not having an interest in the review process. In no event shall information of a private character be disclosed without the express written consent of the person to whom the information relates. Any records utilized during the review process containing medical information shall cease be kept in a separate file and remain strictly confidential. 4. Upon depletion of a teacher's own accumulated sick leave, he/she must file an application to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The illness must be for three (3) consecutive days to be eligible for withdrawals unless it is related to a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any previous prolonged illness. 5. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming Bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member of the Bank. 6. If it appears that an individual is abusing the above policy, the Review Board may direct said individual to be examined by a doctor of the Review Board's choosing to determine if the illness is valid. 7. At no time, as long as this is in the Contract, will the Pinconning Area Education Association ask the Board of Education to contribute any sick days. 8. The Sick Leave Review Board will consider all applications within the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitationsguidelines: a. Sick bank leave shall Upon approved application, withdrawals may be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time made for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject up to the approve balance of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher but in no case event will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms withdrawal exceed two-thirds (2/3) of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the b. A teacher who is receiving worker’s compensation payments may use accumulated sick leave bank may to supplement worker’s compensation payments in an amount not to exceed the teacher’s annual salary. c. The Sick Leave Bank cannot be used for maternity elective or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancycosmetic surgery. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toSection 1. Effective for the duration of this Agreement, and hereby establishes a voluntary Sick Leave Bank will be established for use by qualified members of the bargaining unit whose sick leave bank accumulation is exhausted through serious prolonged illness/accident and who require additional leave to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and make full recovery from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVan extended illness or accident. 1Section 2. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a Each member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of submit one (1) sick day of sick leave his/her personal accumulation to the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank to be utilized by members who qualify and an who have exhausted their own individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodleaves, both annual and accumulated, and who still have a serious extended illness. Section 3. A person Personnel shall cease to be a contributing individual upon not qualify for consideration of extended illness leave within the failure framework of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any the Sick Leave Bank unless they have accumulated at least twenty (20) sick leave days from (after submission required by Section 2). Once an employee has become eligible for the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member benefits of the following yearSick Leave Bank, he/she shall continue such eligibility for the duration of this Agreement. Section 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by following the procedure in paragraph a Sick Leave Bank Committee will consist of two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted ) members designated by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) School Committee to serve at its discretion and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days two (2) 11-40: Up members designated by the Association to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) serve at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committeeits discretion. 6Section 5. Should the Any sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with granted under the provisions of this contractArticle shall expire at the end of the school year. There shall be no accumulation or carryover to successive years of unused Sick Leave Bank days beyond the term of this Agreement. Section 6. Sick Leave Bank days shall be available only after the infirmed employee has exhausted his/her entire personal sick leave, both annual and accumulated. Section 7. All requests for grants from the Sick Leave Bank shall be in writing and shall be accompanied by certification of a physician as to the illness and/or disability of the employee and the anticipated extent of recovery time necessary. Section 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees Application for benefits may be made prior to the employee’s exhaustion of his/her personal sick leave to expedite benefits, but drawings upon the enrollment period for Sick Leave Bank will not actually commence until after the employee’s own sick bank, including required contribution forms leave days are exhausted and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearadequate medical notification has been provided. Section 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in The initial grant of sick leave by the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. If additional days are needed, they must be requested in writing and contain further certification by a physician. Section 10. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may request further evidence or a second physician’s opinion before granting additional days from the Sick Leave Bank. Section 11. Subject to the foregoing requirements, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the eligibility for the use of the Sick Leave Bank and the amount of leave to be granted. The following general criteria shall be considered by the Committee in administering the Sick Leave Bank and in determining the amount of leave. (a) medical evidence of serious extended illness; (b) prior utilization of eligible sick leave. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding and not subject to appeal. No days may be withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank for any illness other than prolonged illness or accident. Days may not be withdrawn to permit an individual to stay at home to care for other members of the family, and in no instance may days be withdrawn for purposes of a normal maternity.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. i. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2ii. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3iii. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4iv. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. v. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. : • Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. . • In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. . • Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. . • Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. . • All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. . • This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. . • Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. . • Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. . • Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. . • Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) : 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. • Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6vi. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7vii. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8viii. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9ix. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The Beginning with the 1979-80 school corporation agrees toyear, and hereby establishes a voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the purpose of providing sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave dayswith pay during periods of personal illness, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when or injury not otherwise compensated by the individualBoard or Worker’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1Compensation. The sick leave bank shall apply intent of the Bank is to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member provide income protection for participating members of the bargaining unit. Bargaining unit members shall become eligible to which this contract appliesparticipate in the Sick Leave Bank after one (1) year of employment in the school district and accrual of at least one (1) day of unused sick leave. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30a) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form All participating members shall require the assigning of contribute one (1) day of sick leave in the first month of the employee’s eligibility. Each member of the bargaining unit will sign a statement either accepting or declining enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank. Applications for membership and/or use of the Bank may be obtained from the bargaining unit member's primary worksite. b) Participating members shall contribute one (1) additional day each time the Bank is depleted but not more than once per year. The Bank shall be considered depleted when there are fewer than 200 sick days. 1) If a member elects to withdraw from membership, he/she shall be removed from membership and may reapply during the next official enrollment period. Upon reapplying, initial membership requirements must again be met. 2) If a member does not have one Sick Leave day to contribute, his/her membership shall be suspended until he/she has earned one Sick Leave day to contribute. c) The Bank shall be directed by an administrative committee and chaired by the Assistant Superintendent for Administration or his/her designee. This committee shall: 1) Process all applications and approve/disapprove withdrawal of days based upon illness, or injury, subject to the sick leave bank criteria established by this committee. 2) Define “catastrophic” and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment perioddevelop other definitions, guidelines and rules for the purpose of administering the Bank. 3) Investigate any alleged abuse of the Sick Leave Bank, and upon a finding of wrongdoing, report such to the Superintendent. A person If such wrongdoing is substantiated, the employee shall cease reimburse the district all wages and benefits paid to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearemployee. 4) Be governed by rules established by the committee. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use The composition of the sick leave bank this committee shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (The Assistant Superintendent for Administration or his/her designee. 2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (The Supervisor of Student Services responsible for school nurses. 3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.Four

Sick Leave Bank. a. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Board shall establish a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons bank. Participating Teachers may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which borrow a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions limited number of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming Sick Leave Bank for a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two Family Medical Leave (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review CommitteeFMLA) approved event. b. In the even event that a teacher is disabled as a result Teacher has not already submitted the statement of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying an attending physician verifying the nature of the illness in conjunction with a Board approved leave, the Teacher shall be required to submit such medical certification information prior to becoming eligible to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank. c. To establish the Sick Leave Bank, all participating Teachers must donate two (2) of their accumulated and prognosis report credited sick leave days. A Teacher wishing to participate must donate such days by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office on or before September 30th for the teacher2023-2024 school year. Teachers who are employed less than full-time shall donate days on a prorated basis and receive borrowed days on a prorated basis. If a participating Teacher’s return bank of paid sick days is depleted at the time of enrollment, the Teacher may instead donate accrued personal business leave. However, no participating Teacher may borrow personal business days to workenroll in the Sick Leave Bank. At the conclusion of each school year, the Sick Leave Bank’s unused days will be carried over to the next school year. d. Days taken from Participating Teachers will not be required to donate additional days to the sick leave bank shall apply only Sick Day Bank unless the Board and the Association agree that additional donations are necessary to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if keep the teacher were not under disabilitySick Leave Bank operative. e. All contractual donated days are a permanent contribution to the Sick Leave Bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a participating Teacher leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from their employment with the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any dayBoard. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against The Board agrees to contribute to the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of Bank a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following matching number of sick leave days under equivalent to one-half (1/2) of the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum total number of days that are donated by participating teachers. g. Participating Teachers may apply to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office. The Teacher’s accumulated sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up must be exhausted prior to 60 borrowing days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of from the Sick Bank Review CommitteeLeave Bank. 6. Should h. A participating Teacher may borrow up to sixty (60) days per year, but not more than one hundred eighty (180) days during the Teacher’s employment by the Board. i. All sick leave bank fall to in excess of two hundred fifty (250) days that has been accumulated by a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee Teacher who retires shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by considered to have been donated to the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank Sick Leave Bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysretirement.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a (1) A voluntary sick leave bank (hereinafter referred to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave daysas the “Bank”) shall be created for the use of staff covered by this agreement who have exhausted his/her sick, personal and vacation days and have suffered a personal illness or injury. (2) Bank days shall only be available for use in order to cover pregnancy and/or delivery related disabilities in “extraordinary” situations, and only to the extent set forth in this paragraph. The teacher’s contract presumes that a pregnant woman is medically unable to work four (4) weeks before delivery and four (4) weeks after. “Extraordinary” pregnancy and/or delivery related disability shall mean pregnancy related and/or delivery related disability from work which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions takes place outside of sick leave under Article IVthis period of presumed medical disability. 1(3) Applications will be considered for a continuous absence due to a personal illness or injury. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed Applications resulting from elective or cosmetic procedures will not be considered. (4) In cases which involve work-related injuries and where the individual is being compensated through Workers’ Compensation, no application will be considered until such individual is released by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued Workers’ Compensation physician and no further income is being received through Workers’ Compensation Insurance. (5) Any person covered by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is Association’s collective negotiations agreement may join the Bank by signing an agreement to contribute a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning minimum of one (1) sick day of per contractual period. Membership shall enable a person to apply for sick leave days from the Bank. If a person decides to no longer participate in the Bank, he/she shall not have an obligation to contribute any sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment in the subsequent contractual period. 3. A ; however, the person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw reimbursement of the sick days he/she had previously contributed to the Bank. The Board shall not contribute any days to the Bank. (a) Newly hired personnel shall donate at least one (1) sick leave day to the Bank during their initial year of employment with the Board and subsequent contracts thereafter in order to obtain membership in the Bank. (6) The Bank shall be administered by three (3) trustees, two (2) of whom shall be tenured Association members, the third trustee shall be the superintendent of schools or his/her designee. (7) Applications for days from the Bank shall be submitted to the trustees for their review. The following factors shall be considered by the trustees when reviewing the application: (a) attendance history; (b) previous requests and awards from the Bank; (c) seriousness of illness/injury; (d) pre-existing conditions and effect on absenteeism; (e) estimated length of illness; (f) reason why the request should be granted; and (g) total number of days in the Bank for all members. After considering the factors, the committee shall forward a recommendation to either approve or deny the application, or to grant less than the total number of days requested by the individual to the Board for its approval. The decision by the Board shall be final and shall not be the subject of any grievance pursuant to the terms of this agreement. (8) Applications for days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member may be made at any time. The request shall be in writing and state: (a) the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use nature of the sick leave bank shall be subject to illness; (b) estimated length of absence; and (c) the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as reason why the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve person is of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In opinion that the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall request should be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the granted. The nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacherlength of absence shall be documented on the letterhead of the employee’s return to workphysician and signed by the physician. Additional documentation may be required. d. Days taken from (9) The parties shall maintain an up to date accounting of all members, sick days in the Bank, the number of sick days contributed and withdrawn by every member and a record of all applications, which shall include the disposition thereof. (10) If the Bank is dissolved, the remaining sick days shall be returned to current members in proportion to the number of sick days contributed, less any sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disabilitygranted. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation and hereby establishes the Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association agree to the establishment of a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with (hereafter “Bank”) under the following provisions. Please see : A) Membership in the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply Bank will be voluntary and open to all persons employed by certified employees of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation. New employees, and those employees hired after the beginning of the school corporation whose employment requires year shall have the holding of a license issued by opportunity to enter the Indiana Department of Educationprogram, whether or not any such person is a member providing the employee submits the proper authorization within sixty (60) calendar days of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2first day of employment. A “contributing individual” is one who, Current employees may join the Bank within the first thirty (30) calendar days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year by submitting the proper authorization form (Appendix F). B) Days placed in which the Bank shall not be reclaimed. Unused days will be carried over to the next school year. C) Each participant shall contribute one (1) sick day each year. However, should the number of days in the Bank drop below twenty-five (25) days during the year, each participant will be required to contribute one (1) additional day to the Bank to continue eligibility. This requirement is waived for any participant who does not have a sick or personal day available to contribute at the time the request is made. In such an instance, one (1) day shall be deducted from the following year’s sick leave bank benefits are requested day’s allowance. Voluntary Sick Bank Committee 1) The Bank will be operated on a voluntary basis. A committee shall be formed to administer the Bank and usedto provide the information whereby the business office of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation will keep the records. This committee shall be empowered to adopt rules and regulations and to make decisions required to administer the Sick Leave Bank, have accumulated so long as those rules, regulations and decisions do not modify the agreement contained herein. This committee will be titled the “Voluntary Sick Bank Committee” (hereafter referred to as the SBC). The SBC shall be composed of the following number five (5) persons: (a) Superintendent of Schools of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation or his/her designee. (b) The Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association president or his/her designee. (c) One Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation Business office or building level administrator. This member is to be appointed by the Superintendent of Schools of the Rising Sun-Ohio County Community School Corporation. (d) Two bargaining unit members. These members are to be appointed by the Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association president. Effort should be made with these appointments to provide bargaining unit representation from the elementary, middle and secondary levels. 2) Should a vacancy occur on the SBC, a replacement for the vacant position shall be appointed by the authority making the original appointment. 3) One of the three bargaining unit SBC representatives will be selected to act as chairperson of the SBC. The Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association president will designate the chairperson prior to the first meeting of the SBC. D) Days granted from the Bank can only be used for extended illness or disability of only the participating member, and only after he/she has used three (3) uncompensated sick leave days. (The Sick Bank Committee will generally consider an extended illness one that involves ten (10) or more working days) E) Days granted will be reimbursed at the rate equal to the per diem rate of pay on the adopted salary schedule for the individual granted the days, the individual's daily rate. F) The Maximum dollar expenditure during the school year is $10,000.00. When the maximum amount is reached at any time during the year, the Bank will cease to operate for the remainder of that period. G) Periodic reviews by the SBC of all bank use will be made. No use may extend more than fifteen (15) working days without approval of the SBC. After the fifteen (15) day review, the SBC reserves the right to change the percentage rate of payment specified in sub-section 6 of this section. H) Days granted from the Bank may not be granted for the period of disability when monies are paid to the employee under the sick leave section of this contractWorkmen's Compensation Law. I) Further, individuals shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number limited in their use of days from the sick leave bank Bank to the number of days he/she had accumulated at the time of application for membership in any single year as followsthe Bank each year. J) Sick Bank days shall not be used during Summer School employment, normal pregnancy, or for family illness privileges granted in this Agreement. K) APPEAL BOARD 1) An Appeal Board will be established composed of the following six (6) persons: (1a) 0The Superintendent of the Rising Sun-10: Up to 60 days Ohio County School Corporation or his/her designee. (b) The Association President or his/her designee. (c) Four members will be appointed - two (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days each by the Superintendent of Schools and the Association President. (d) No appointed member of the SBC may at the same time be member of the Appeal Board. 2) The Association President or his/her designee will act as chairperson of the Appeal Board. 3) 41 If a request for the use of personal illness leave days is denied by the SBC, then the applicant may appeal the committee’s decision to the Appeal Board within ten (10) working days after the denial. Any decision by the Appeal Board must be by a majority vote. A tie vote will automatically support the SBC decision. All decisions of the Appeal Board are final and binding. 4) The Appeal Board will rule on any appeal within ten (10) working days after the appeal is received in writing. 5) The Voluntary Sick Leave Bank is excluded from the Grievance Procedure. L) Members Agreement 1) A member shall be required to furnish a medical report from a licensed physician at any time before or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may during the time of use of the Leave Bank. The medical report will be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the member's expense. The SBC will review each case as required. The SBC reserves the right, if necessary, to limit the number of days granted. 2) In consideration of the benefits of participating in the Bank, each applicant for membership in the Bank and for benefits from the Bank shall, as a condition to such application, agree in writing substantially as follows: "I specifically acknowledge and agree that the granting of days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be at the sole discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee or, in the event of an appeal, the Appeal Board and that all decisions of the Sick Bank Committee will be final and binding and not subject to grievance. I further agree to abide by such decision and to indemnify and hold harmless the Rising Sun-Ohio County School Corporation and the Ohio County Classroom Teachers Association, the Sick Bank Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall , and all of their agents for any loss they may sustain as a result of any claim or legal proceedings I may bring against any of them with respect to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment perioddecision made by any of them concerning this application." 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed When an employee donates days to the Bank, he agrees to the above stated rules for administration of the Bank and agrees to abide by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractstated rules. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toUpon the date of execution of this Agreement, and hereby establishes a voluntary Sick Leave Bank may be established for each unit covered by this Agreement where such bank does not currently exist. Every sick leave bank that exists at the University, prior to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave daysthe effective date of this Agreement, shall be deemed to have been established pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person employee who is a member of any such bank on the bargaining unit effective date of this Agreement may remain a member thereof subject to which the terms and conditions of this contract applies. 2section. A “contributing individual” During the term of this Agreement, an employee who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become so by assigning to the Bank one who(1) or more full days of his/her personal sick leave accumulation, within during the first annual thirty (30) days of day period established by the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3Union Management-Committee for such purpose. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up upon the Bank after the exhaustion of the member’s personal sick leave, vacation leave, and personal leave accumulation as well as any compensatory days. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint Union-Management Committee with majority representation of Union members. The Committee shall establish applicable rules and regulations not in conflict with this Article. This Local Union-Management Committee will determine at what level the Sick Leave Bank will be replenished. However, members can donate one or more full days each time it is required that the Bank be replenished. Any member of the Bank wishing to remain a maximum number of days from the member thereof and who has exhausted his/her personal sick leave bank in any single year accumulation shall assign such additional day or days as follows: (1) 0-10: Up of the date on which such member is next entitled to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank Review shall begin drawing on the Bank only upon presentation of a medical certificate satisfactory to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 6. Should Such medical certificate shall be signed by a physician and shall set forth the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested nature of the employee’s illness or disability and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7its anticipated duration. A unanimous vote of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committee shall be formed and required to authorize the employee to begin drawing on the Sick Leave Bank. After an employee has drawn on the Bank for ten (10) working days, his/her case shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed reviewed by the exclusive representative and one Sick Leave Bank Committee which may, by unanimous affirmative vote, authorize the employee to continue drawing on the Bank. This process shall be repeated after each successive period of ten (110) individual appointed working days. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any employee drawing on the Sick Leave Bank may at any time be disqualified from continuing to draw on the Bank by unanimous vote of the SuperintendentSick Leave Bank Committee. The committee Any vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days be credited automatically to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank. Any provisions of this contract. 8. The school district Article to the contrary notwithstanding, for those Sick Leave Banks in existence on the date of execution of this Agreement, the current Committee structure shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bankcontinue; provided, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlineshowever, within the first five (5) school days that at least one management representative shall be a member of each school yearCommittee. All decisions that the Committees are empowered to make pursuant to this Article shall be by majority vote. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member By mutual agreement of the bargaining unit Superintendent and Association Sick Bank Committee (herein ASBC), Employees periodically will be asked to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of voluntarily transfer one (1) day of their accumulated sick leave to the a special sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon administered by the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from Association in accordance with the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitationsfollowing: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days1. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number Withdrawal of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may shall be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at for serious illness on the discretion part of the Sick Bank Review CommitteeEmployee or family member living within the household only. It shall not be applicable to any disability of the Employee or family member living within the household related to maternity leave (with the exception of serious complications that threaten the safety of the mother and/or child), or medical procedures which could safely be deferred until a vacation, recess, or other non- work day(s) or hour(s). 62. Should In order for a participating Employee to withdraw from the sick leave bank fall to Sick Leave Bank, a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised period of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school workdays must pass following the exhaustion of the Employee’s accumulated sick leave. Once this condition has been met, the Employee may make application to utilize days from the Sick Leave Bank in full-day units. Such request shall be submitted in writing to the ASBC with a copy given to the Superintendent and shall be accompanied by a doctor’s verification as proof of each school yearneed. 93. Within five (5) workdays after receipt of the request, the ASBC shall determine if the requested day(s) should be approved, provided there are sufficient days available in the Sick Leave Bank. 4. If there the requested day(s) from the Sick Leave Bank are seven hundred approved, the ASBC will notify the Superintendent in writing of the name of the Employee and fifty (750) the number of days in that are approved from the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution Sick Leave Bank. The Employee submitting such request will be necessary unless it falls below advised, in writing, by the previously described number Association if the requested days are approved or are not approved. A copy of thirty (30) daysthis notice will be given to the Superintendent.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation Board agrees to, and hereby establishes to establish a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when cover employees in the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions event of sick leave under Article IV. 1long term illness. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be administered by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding a committee composed of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3members of the Association appointed by the Association President. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form Rules for membership and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure participation in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject established by the Association and shall be supplied to the following limitationsBoard. Any rules established by the Association shall include the following: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from That the sick leave bank shall apply be funded at the start of each school year to reach a maximum of two hundred (200) days. The sick leave bank may ordinarily be supplied with additional days only at the start of each school year to those bring it up to the two hundred (200) days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disabilitymaximum. e. All contractual b. That no one may contribute more than two (2) days in any school year to fund the sick leave bank at the start of each school year; and that any days contributed shall be waived while drawing pay deducted from that year's sick leave entitlement for the person making said contribution. c. That the Association shall notify the District by September 15 of each year of the individuals who have donated days to the sick leave bank so that a teacher said days may be deducted from the individual's yearly entitlement. d. That individuals may not elect to receive sick leave benefits in lieu of disability benefits pursuant to Appendix F. Eligibility for sick leave bank benefits shall terminate when an individual is eligible for benefits pursuant to Appendix F. e. That no case will employee shall, under any circumstances, be drawing double pay for any dayentitled to sick leave bank benefits until said employee has exhausted all accrued sick leave available to that employee. f. This That no one shall, under any circumstances, be entitled to receive sick leave and disability benefits at the same time. g. The Association may replenish the sick leave bank section shall not operate (back to 200 days) one time during the school year if the number of days left in the bank falls below 50 days. No teacher may contribute more than one (1) day in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against replenishment of the sick leave bank, but ; any days contributed shall be compensated deducted from that year's sick leave entitlement for under the terms person making said contribution. The Association shall notify the District of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except individuals who have donated a day to the regular school year. i. Leave from replenishment of the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but so that said day may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days deducted from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committeeindividual's yearly entitlement. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of members’ sick leave bank days administered by the Union’s Sick Leave Bank Committee, which may be used for serious illness only by participating members. The Board and Union agree that the Board shall, pursuant to which certificated persons may contribute unused the direction of the Union’s Sick Leave Bank Committee, accept donations of members’ sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank (thereby reducing their individual accumulated sick leave by the number of days donated) shall hold these days, and further, pursuant to the direction of the Union’s Sick Leave Bank Committee, and to the availability of days in the Sick Leave Bank, distribute days from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1Sick Leave Bank. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member parties agree that as of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days start of the contract 2019-2020 school year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five has a balance of twenty-six (526) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3days. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon Decisions regarding the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. made by a Sick bank leave Leave Bank Committee, which shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as composed of four (4) full-time teachers chosen by the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal daysUnion. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be deducted subject to responsible for determining whether a situation meets the approve intent of the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank Review Committee. b. In Committee shall provide a copy of the even rules regarding the Sick Leave Bank to the District Business Office. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall also provide a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during report to the same school yearDistrict Business Office, any additional sick leave bank time granted is which indicates participating teachers’ deposits into, and withdrawals from, the Sick Leave Bank. This Section and all decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank Committee are not subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committeegrievance arbitration. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. A. The school corporation agrees toExecutive Board of the Union shall establish the basic rules and regulations of the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave By-Laws shall be found in Appendix E in this Agreement. Employees who participate in the Sick Leave Bank and who have complaints regarding decision(s) of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall bring those complaints directly to the Committee. B. The Union shall absolve and hold harmless, in all respects, Prairie State College and hereby establishes a voluntary its administration regarding the implementation of the Sick Leave Bank provisions. C. At the beginning of each fiscal year, each employee desiring membership in the Sick Leave Bank (Appendix F) shall contribute one sick leave day of their accumulated allowance to a common bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused be administered by the Union. Employees who are members of the Sick Leave Bank, who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave leave, personal days, and vacation days, and who have been absent five additional days without pay, may make reasonable withdrawals as determined by the Union from which the Sick Leave Bank, provided that there are sufficient days available in the bank, and provided that a contributing individual may draw physician's statement is included with each request for such benefits. D. Determination of participation, discontinuance of participation, and particulars with regard to the withdrawal of days shall be furnished to the Human Resources Department in the appropriate year. When a participant requests (Appendix G) and is approved for sick leave days when benefits by the individual’s annual Committee, the Committee shall forward the name and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with all other appropriate information to the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVHuman Resources Department. 1. The sick leave bank X. Xxxx Leave Bank utilization shall apply be limited to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesno more than twenty- five (25) days per rolling year. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual X. Any retiring employee may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodof accumulated sick leave time to the Sick Leave Bank. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon G. The days remaining in the failure bank at the end of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter each fiscal year will not be entitled returned to draw any contributing employees, but will be carried over. An employee whose withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank is approved by the Union will continue to receive such sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member either the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve exhaustion of the Sick Leave Bank Review Committeeor the Union's decision to terminate such withdrawals. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature H. If at any time during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of year the Sick Leave Bank Review Committeeis exhausted, the Union can contact the bank's membership for one additional voluntary contribution of one day each. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. a. The school corporation agrees topurpose of the Sick Leave Bank (SLB) is to provide paid days for serious personal illness or family illness to contributors to the Bank who have exhausted their accumulated sick, vacation, and hereby establishes personal leave days and who are experiencing prolonged personal or family illness. Allotments will be limited to participating bargaining unit members for use only in cases of illness, injury or non-elective surgery occurring under unusual, severe or emergency conditions as determined by the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC). Utilization of the Sick Leave Bank for complications arising from pregnancy or childbirth may be authorized by the SLBC. b. Bargaining unit members may enroll in the Sick Leave Bank, during the enrollment period, which shall be during the month of September of each school year. New bargaining unit members will be given consideration on a voluntary case by case basis until the next enrollment period. An enrollment/donation form is attached as Addendum C. c. Upon enrollment, a bargaining unit member shall contribute one (1) of his/her accumulated sick leave bank days to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick the SLB. Days contributed to the SLB are non-returnable. d. Days contributed to the SLB will continue to accumulate year to year with no maximum. e. Enrollment in the SLB shall be continuous from year to year until a member withdraws. Withdrawals are accepted only during an enrollment period and only upon written notice by the member to the SLBC of his/her intent to withdraw. 1) Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed of two (2) voting members as follows: a) Business Manager/Director of Human Resources b) The Association President or designee and c) one (1) Association Executive Committee member. 2) The SLBC will review and approve or deny all applications to the Sick Leave Bank. The SLBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to the Bank and shall notify Bank members of the need for said contributions. The SLBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the Sick Leave Bank to the District Treasurer. 3) Decisions of the SLBC are final. 4) The SLBC shall review the operation of the Sick Leave Bank as needed and shall make recommendations, if necessary, for modifications of the plan to the negotiating teams of the Association and the Board. f. General Procedures 1) An application for an allotment from the Sick Leave Bank will be accepted only from those individuals who have contributed to the Bank. The application form is attached in Addendum D. 2) Allotments will be limited to use for personal illness and serious illness in the immediate family. A doctor’s statement is required with the application in order for the request to be considered. For the purposes of the SLB only, immediate family will be defined as parent, child, or spouse. 3) An application will be considered only after a member has used all of his/her accumulated sick, vacation and personal leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw available sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearadvances. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following ) Days allotted from the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after Sick Leave Bank will be paid at 100% of the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodrequesting member’s daily rate of pay. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject ) Once qualified to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken receive an allotment from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if Bank, the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days a member may receive from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed forty-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.five

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to1. There shall be established a Sick Leave Committee, consisting of one (1) employee designated by the CSEA, one (1) administrator appointed by the Superintendent, a third member selected by the other two, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank the School Medical Director, who shall be an advisory member. Xxxx Xxxx Leave Committee shall review and make recommendations to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw the Superintendent of Schools respecting applications for additional sick leave days when submitted by members of the individualunit the determinations of the Committee are not grievable. 2. A maximum of thirty (30) sick days may be awarded from the sick leave bank. Upon review, the Sick Leave Committee may grant a maximum of thirty (30) additional sick days. The Office of Human Resources shall notify the member and the Payroll Department within five (5) days of the Sick Leave Committee’s annual determination. Application for days from the Sick Leave Bank may be made to the committee by a member of the Unit who meets the following criteria: a. The member has suffered a prolonged serious illness or injury (hereinafter defined); and b. The member has exhausted all paid time off (i.e. sick, vacation, compensatory, and personal); and c. The member must have one continuous year of service in Unit 6; and d. The member must have no history of improper use of sick leave as solely determined by the committee. A maximum of sixty (60) days may be awarded by the committee, per member, per year. Utilization of any awarded days will be in a manner sufficient only to cover mandatory payroll deductions including but not limited to health insurance premiums, pension contributions, and union dues. 3. For purposes of this Article, the term “serious illness or injury” shall be defined as one which is generally regarded as such by those in the medical profession. Any dispute as to whether or not an illness or injury is “serious” as used herein, shall be resolved by the School Medical Director. The purpose of this section is to provide additional sick leave in extraordinary situations where a seriously ill or injured member of the Unit cannot return to work for a prolonged period of time. It is not intended to cover absences of a day, or several days, in excess of accumulated sick leave where there is no prolonged serious illness or injury. 4. Prior to, or no later than concurrent with the submission of the application for additional sick leave, the employee shall provide the School Medical Director with a medical report setting forth the nature of the illness/injury and the anticipated date of recovery and return to work. The Committee shall have the right to request additional medical information, if it deems such information to be necessary, as well as the right to have the employee examined by the School Medical Director or a physician designated by the School Medical Director. 5. The District shall not be obligated to contribute any additional sums to the bank and it is understood that there shall be a limitation of the total number of sick days, which may be recommended to the Committee to the extent that the total annual expenditure therefore shall not exceed ninety (90) days are exhausted, per year. Employees may donate unused sick days in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of donation criteria: Donation Criteria a. Employee donating sick leave under Article IVshall voluntarily consent to do so in writing. 1. The b. Only those employees with a minimum of thirty (30) accrued sick leave bank shall apply days may donate to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires Bank. Active employees may donate a maximum of five sick days per donation period to the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesBank. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first c. Retiring employees may donate a maximum of thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3at the time of retirement. A person shall cease to be The District will incorporate a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any retiree sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to workdonation form into its out processing package. d. Days taken from Once the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were donation has been made, it cannot under disabilitybe withdrawn. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case There will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against a donation period from July 1 – July 31 each year when employees may donate to the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except f. When the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following remaining number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time reaches a minimum level of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty sixty (3060) days., the Office of Human Resources will solicit donations from members who have not contributed the maximum of five

Sick Leave Bank. A. The school corporation agrees Sick Leave Bank shall be open to certified employees of the District. Once enrolled, membership shall be continuous until the member submits written notice of withdrawal to the District. B. The Sick Leave Bank will be established to enable a certificated employee (because of unusual circumstances) to receive up to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave daysbut not more than twice (2 times), and from which a contributing individual may draw the number of sick leave days when he/she has credited to him/her prior to the individualfirst day of the school year, or twenty-four (24) days, whichever is greater. For the purpose of the Sick Leave Bank, Unusual Circumstances shall be defined as any serious physically or emotionally debilitating illness, which results in a prolonged absence. A copy of the approved leave shall be submitted to the District’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVPersonnel Office. 1C. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administrated by a Sick Leave Bank Committee. member selected by the Administration. It is the Committee’s responsibility to approve or deny requests for Sick Leave Bank usage. Applications for Sick Leave Bank usage shall be accompanied by a letter from the attending physician explaining the nature, seriousness, and expected duration of the medical problem. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the grievance procedure. The sick leave bank District shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member be held responsible for decisions of the bargaining unit to which this contract appliesSick Leave Bank Committee. 2. A “contributing individual” is one whoD. Members wishing to join the Sick Leave Bank shall notify the Personnel Director of their intention by September 30 of the current year, or within the first thirty (30) days of employment. Each new member of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of bank will donate one (1) day of sick his/her leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodupon joining. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. E. In the event a teacher on sick that the bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disabilityis depleted below forty (40) days, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve each member of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any bank will donate an additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw day up to a maximum number of two (2) days per year. Donated days will be nonrefundable. F. The first seven (7) days of an illness or disability will not be covered by the bank, but must be covered by the member’s own accumulated sick leave, personal leave, or absence without pay. A person will not be able to withdraw days from the bank until his/her own sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 and personal leave days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 are depleted. Sick leave days k. Teachers may can only be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in withdrawn from the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysfor individual members’ illness.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation Association may maintain a Sick Leave Bank subject to the guidelines listed below. The Association shall administer the Sick Leave Bank and establish rules for the implementation of the Bank. A copy of these rules shall be on file in the District Office, as well as in each building. By November 1 of each year, the Association shall provide to the District Office the names of participating members. The Association will also update the District Office of subsequent charges against the Bank. The Association agrees toto hold harmless the Board for any claim, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank damages, or other legal actions initiated pursuant to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisionsthis section. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV.Guidelines: 1. The sick leave bank shall apply term day in the following guidelines refers to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which members covered under this contract appliesAgreement actual work day. For full-time bargaining unit members, the day is a full work day. 2. Any bargaining unit member who is covered under this Agreement and who is at least a second-year employee may participate in the Sick Leave Bank. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs bargaining unit member who elects to participate shall deposit a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning minimum of one (1) day and a maximum of sick leave two (2) days into the Sick Leave Bank during the 2017-2018 school year to initiate the Sick Leave Bank pool. At the start of the 2018-2019 school year, bargaining unit members who elected to participate during the 2017- 2018 school year shall donate at least one (1) day to the sick leave Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank will not be accessible until a minimum of 100 days has been deposited or the start of the 2018-2019 school year whichever occurs first. A bargaining unit member may elect to not participate in the Bank by notifying the Association in writing by October 15 of the year in which they are first eligible for the Sick Leave Bank. 3. If the number of days in the bank and an individual on November 1, after implementation of the Sick Leave Bank, falls below 200, a Sick Leave Bank Drive shall be held for all bargaining unit member eligible to participate in the Bank. A member who has accumulated his/her limit or is leaving the school district may contribute up to five two (52) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease maximum to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearSick Leave Bank. 4. Present A participant may cancel membership by so indicating in writing directed to the attention of the chairperson of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Cancellation of membership, regardless of reason, shall mean forfeiture of any claim to contributed days and new faculty members benefits of membership for that year. A teacher who wish has elected not to become “contributing individuals” participate in the Sick Leave Bank as a second-year teacher or withdraws participation may do so by following not thereafter join or rejoin the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment periodSick Leave Bank during that year. 5. Use The intent of the Bank is to provide additional financial protection for those bargaining unit members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave bank and who incur a period of personal illness or hospitalization, as verified in writing by a physician. The Sick Leave Bank shall be subject applicable only to teacher (not family) illness or accident, and shall not be applicable to any bargaining unit member during any unpaid leave of absence, sabbatical leave, or parental leave as per the following limitations:Agreement between the Association and the District. It remains the intent of both parties to strive to retain good attendance in the District. a. 6. Authorized withdrawals by participating bargaining unit members from the Sick bank leave Leave Bank shall be used on a teacher’s made only upon approval of the majority members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, and their decision shall be final. The employee must first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted use all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal be without salary for ten (10) school days. Days may need , submit to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event Sick Leave Bank Committee a teacher on sick bank leave returns doctor's certificate of illness (certifying inability to work and then finds it necessary on advice of that the situation is a doctor prolonged illness or hospitalization), and fill out the Association's application to take additional leave for use the Sick Leave Bank. Recurring absences due to the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported disability indicated by a doctor's written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return verification do not have to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank consecutive. Each withdrawal may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer less than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may consider an additional request in the event of a catastrophic illness. 7. In addition, an eligible second through fourth year teacher may utilize Bank days for the maximum listed below: 8. Probationary teachers (2 to 4 years): Maximum of twenty (20) days Tenured teachers: Maximum of forty (40) days 9. Once this maximum usage in a school year has been reached, a bargaining unit member must return to employment in a full-time position for a period of two (2) consecutive school years, with absences not exceeding accrued sick leave, before becoming eligible for use of the Bank again. 10. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall act in all matters that concern the policies and decisions of the Sick Leave Bank. The Association shall appoint the members of the Sick Leave Bank committee, which shall write its own regulations of operation covering procedures to review requests. If such regulations violate school policies and/or are not practical to carry out, as determined by the Business Office, the Committee will change such regulations. 11. A representative of the Committee shall compile and submit a list of those teachers who elect to participate and those who do not participate in the bank to the District Office no later than November 1 each school year. 912. If there are seven hundred The Association shall appoint one (1) member from each school, who will act as the Sick Leave Committee along with the President of the Association in all matters that concern the policies of the Sick Leave Bank. The committee will have final administrative responsibility of the bank. 13. The Association agrees to indemnify, and fifty save and hold harmless, the Board of Education, its employees and agents from any and all liability, costs, claims, attorneys' fees or damages suffered by the Board as a result of any litigation, arbitration, or administrative agency proceeding which might arise as a result of this Section. 14. Any dispute, which arises as to the administration of this Section, will not be subject to the grievance process. 15. Any member who is receiving disability benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System, the Social Security Administration, the Veteran's Administration, or is absent for illness or injury due to a work-related accident (750) which is compensable under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act), may not avail himself/herself of any benefits of the Bank. 16. In June of each year, the District will provide the Association with an accounting of the number of days in the bank at Sick Leave Bank and the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysdays utilized from the Bank.

Sick Leave Bank. An eligible teacher who wishes to take advantage of the provisions of the Teacher Sick Leave Bank shall submit a letter of request to the Superintendent of Schools. The school corporation agrees to, letter shall indicate the anticipated period of absence and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank be accompanied by relevant medical documentation. Response to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, this request shall be made in writing. A record of all requests and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when their disposition shall be maintained and the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with Association shall be informed of the following provisions. Please see the definitions status of sick leave under Article IVeach request. 1. The sick leave bank Sick Leave Bank Committee shall apply to all persons employed by be responsible for the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member administration of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank, determine eligibility for use of the bank, and decide the amount of leave to which this contract appliesbe granted. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days All decisions will result from a majority vote of the contract committee. 3. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding, and not subject to appeal through the grievance and arbitration process contained in this contract. 4. Once each school year prior to October 1, the ATA will solicit employees for contributions of sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank and will provide written notice to the Superintendent of Unit A employees' contributions to the bank. 5. The Superintendent's office will record the number of those Unit A employees participating in the Sick Leave Bank and each of the employees contribution(s) to the Sick Leave Bank as well as deduct the contributions from employees' sick leave balances. 6. Any sick leave granted under the provisions of this article shall expire at the end of the applicable school year. 7. Upon return from extended sick leave during which benefits were received through the sick leave bank, signs the recipient shall be entitled to commence a new accumulation of individual sick leave in accordance with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement on the same basis as other teachers. 8. Days which remain in the Sick Leave Bank at the conclusion of the school year shall be carried over in the Sick Leave Bank to the successive school year. 9. When the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank reaches a level which is critically low, it may, at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, be renewed by the contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) additional day of sick leave to the by each member of Unit A covered by this Agreement from their accumulated sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3leave. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled Eligibility to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank Bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up A teacher must have contributed to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to be eligible for a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward grant from the subsequent enrollment periodsick bank. 7. (2) A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised teacher must have exhausted all of three his or her accrued sick leave days. (3) The Teacher’s physician must certify that the teacher is disabled from working due to personal illness or injury and that such disability is expected to continue so that it will be necessary to draw on the bank. (4) A majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee has approved the teacher’s request to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of 2 members appointed by the exclusive representative Association, and one (1) individual 2 members appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use School Committee, which may consist of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contractAdministrative Personnel. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school The illness or injury must be that of the teacher. These days of each school yearare not to be used for family members. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (7506) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described The maximum number of thirty (30) days.work days for which a participating teacher who is disabled from working due to personal illness or injury may draw days from the Bank shall be determined as follows:

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank Emergency Sick Leave Bank is to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed be used by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within employees who have completed the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days three (3) 41 years of full- time service in the Connecticut Technical High School System. The enrollment period will be from September 1 to November 1 of each contract year. Employees wishing to enroll will notify the SVFT during this time period. The SVFT will forward to Education Personnel a list of eligible employees on or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may before November 15. No new enrollees will be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion accepted after that date. An eligible employee requesting use of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the emergency sick leave bank fall may make application on the prescribed form to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution Labor Management subcommittee established to administer the program. All committee meetings will be requested and will count toward scheduled after 3:00 p.m. at a location agreeable to the subsequent enrollment period. 7members. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and Said committee shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and designees, one (1) individual appointed by from the Superintendent. The committee shall consider Employer and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submittedtwo (2) from the Union, and any grants made, are shall determine eligibility for benefits in accordance with the provisions of this contract.following: 8. The school district (1) Each eligible employee who elects to participate shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for contribute one (1) day from accrued sick leave to the sick leave bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first . Each eligible employee may also elect a one-time donation of up to five (5) school days within five (5) years of each school yearenrollment. Days contributed shall not revert to employees if not used. 9(2) Days contributed to the bank shall thereafter be allocated to bargaining unit employees with catastrophic or extended long-term illness. (3) To be eligible for allocations of sick days from the bank, an employee must meet the following conditions: 1. If there are seven hundred Exhaustion of all sick leave and fifty personal leave. 2. The illness or injury is not covered by Workers’ Compensation and/or such benefits have been exhausted. 3. An acceptable medical certificate supporting the absence is on file. 4. Completion of the service requirement. 5. The bank is not depleted. (7504) Benefits under this Article shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day for each day of illness or injury provided that the employee has been disabled for a minimum of ten (10) working days. No employee shall be eligible to draw from the bank if the fund is depleted. Employees receiving benefits under this Article shall not accrue sick leave during the period of eligibility or be eligible for holidays or other paid leave benefits. The subcommittee shall consider as a factor the extent and circumstances of the applicant’s usage of sick leave prior to the illness in question. (5) Unused days in the sick leave bank shall be carried over from year to year and shall not lapse. (6) If at any time the balance in the bank should drop to ten (10) days, each eligible employee shall be assessed one (1) additional day from his/her accrued sick leave. (7) An employee who has been granted some portion of the sick leave bank, and who returns to work, shall repay the bank at the time rate of open enrollmenttwenty-five percent (25%) of his/her unused accrued sick leave each December 31 and June 30 thereafter. In the event that the employee leaves employment, any unused accrued sick leave shall be used to repay the balance owed to the sick leave bank. (8) The actions or non-actions of this subcommittee shall in no contribution way be subject to collateral attack or the grievance/arbitration machinery. The subcommittee shall not be considered a State agency, board or any other subdivision of the Employer. No requests shall be conducted as contested cases or otherwise be subject to the Administrative Procedure Act. (9) An employee who has chosen to participate in the Sick Leave bank may decline to continue to participate by withdrawing from same, by notice filed upon the form developed by the parties. Removal from participation shall be declared not later than the last student contact day of the school year, and shall be deemed effective at midnight on June 30th of that year. There shall be no refund of contributions, and said election, once made, shall be considered irrevocable during that school year. The withdrawing employee will be necessary unless it falls below responsible for all contributions authorized through June 30th of that year. Cutoff of Claims: An employee who has submitted the previously described number appropriate form to withdraw may not make any claim for benefits that either begin after or continue past the June 30th cutoff. Return to Bank Status: An employee who seeks to return to Sick Leave Bank status shall be treated like a new employee, except that the three-year waiting period shall be waived. Return with Infirmity: An employee who has withdrawn may return to the Sick Leave Bank during the designated enrollment period, but in the case in which the employee is already acknowledged to be incapacitated, there shall be a waiting period of thirty not fewer than fifteen (3015) nor more than sixty (60) working days. Said deductible shall be determined by the subcommittee, based upon years of participation and duration of separation from the Bank.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary purpose of the Sick Leave Bank (Bank) is to provide additional paid leave for full or part-time employees who have exhausted their accrued sick leave bank benefits as the result of a catastrophic illness or injury. The Bank serves as a depository into which participating employees may voluntarily contribute days for allocation to which certificated persons may contribute unused other participating employees. The purpose of the Bank is not to provide unlimited paid sick leave days, and from which for any medical reason but to alleviate the hardship caused when employees lose compensation as the result of a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1catastrophic illness or injury. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by Bank is established through the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a voluntary contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave day each school year. Contributing these days establishes membership in the Bank and eligibility for withdrawal. A contribution form must be completed no later than September 1 each year to qualify for withdrawal within that same school year. Eligibility is discontinued upon termination (voluntary or involuntary) of employment or death. No payment of benefits will be made to terminated employees or beneficiaries. Administration of the Bank 1. The bank will be administered by a committee (Committee) agreed upon by XXX and the Superintendent and comprised of the Business/HR Manager, an additional representative from Administration, one School Board Member and two HEA members. Each representative shall name an alternate. *Please note all information regarding sick bank requests will be shared with the sick bank committee, including medical information. 2. The HR Department will be responsible for convening the Committee, coordinating donations, processing requests, and maintaining appropriate related records. 3. Requests for use of the Bank will be reviewed by the Committee. The Committee will prepare a written notification to the sick leave bank requesting employee approving or denying the application. 4. The Committee may not grant Bank days if the Bank does not have available days. 5. An application shall be denied if it is incomplete, lacks supporting statements from a licensed health care provider, or if the employee fails to provide any requested documentation. If denied, an application may be resubmitted. 6. The Bank will be administered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act requirements. Withdrawals from the Bank 1. A contributing employee must complete an individual may contribute up application for Bank days and submit it to Human Resources no later than five (5) total working days after all available sick leave is exhausted. 2. Applications must be accompanied by a statement from a licensed health care provider that includes the beginning date of the condition, a description of the illness or injury, and prognosis for recovery. Required paperwork under FMLA would suffice if so motivated during any enrollment periodalso requested. 3. The Committee will render a written decision to the employee within five (5) working days of the request. In determining catastrophic illness or injury, the following definition will be used: A person shall cease severe medical condition which requires an employee’s absence from work for a prolonged period of time and which results in a substantial loss of income because of the exhaustion of all earned sick leave. A qualifying illness of injury might include, but is not limited to cancer, major non- elective surgery, serious accident, heart attack, or complications of pregnancy. In order to be defined as catastrophic, an illness or injury must be seriously incapacitating, of extended duration, and require the services of a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following yearlicensed health care provider. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” The amount of sick leave granted for each request will be determined by the Committee but cannot exceed a maximum of twenty (20) working days. No employee may do so by following the procedure receive more than twenty (20) Bank days in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment a twelve- month period. 5. Use of the sick Any Bank leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used only for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of purpose requested on the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated application. Any unused portion will be returned to the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review CommitteeBank. 6. Should the sick Bank leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will may be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests used only for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees personal injury or illness of the enrollment period for the sick bankemployee, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school yearnot family members. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV. 1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department Board of Education, whether in conjunction with the Southeastern Education Association, shall establish a Sick Leave Bank according to the following guidelines: A. The intent of this plan is to provide extended sick leave to those persons covered by this agreement who incur a period of prolonged illness, injury, or hospitalization. This plan is for employees only and not any such person is a member family members. B. The certified personnel or designated representative of the bargaining unit teacher should contact the Governing Committee within three (3) days prior to which this contract applieshis/her need to draw upon the bank. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within C. All certified personnel from the first thirty (30) days Southeastern School District may join the Sick Leave Bank. D. Five members of the contract yearSoutheastern Education Association appointed by the Association President will act as a Governing Committee in all matters that concern the policies of the Sick Leave Bank. E. The last day to join the Sick Leave Bank is two weeks after the start of school, signs or two weeks after a contribution formfull-time certified staff member is employed and indicates they have had the Sick Bank explained. F. One (1) day per year is donated by each member to the Sick Leave Bank until the maximum number of days is reached. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of The member will have one (1) day of personal contracted sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period. 3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days subtracted from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year. 4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all his/her accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on member is forced to draw from the Bank, that member will not be required to add a day to the bank the following year to remain a member. The maximum number of accumulated sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject 180. Once the maximum is reached, each new member will still be required to donate a day to the approve bank to become a member. These days will be kept in reserve to be used to fill in days as they become needed and before assessing current members any additional days to replenish the bank. A member must use his/her sick days up first before drawing an amount from the Sick Leave Bank. Then days may be drawn from the Sick Leave Bank after a member has presented a doctor’s written verification of his illness and his request has been approved by the Governing Committee. In no case shall the Sick Leave Bank provide more than 180 days per individual illness. If a prolonged illness or hospitalization for any person continues from one school year to another, that person will be entitled to no more and no less than the total number of days accrued from the accumulated sick leave and the Sick Leave Bank as calculated at the beginning of the Sick Bank Review Committeeillness. b. In G. Whenever the even a teacher Sick Leave Bank is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during depleted to 100 days, the same Governing Committee shall assess all participating members one (1) additional day to restock the bank until the maximum is again reached. They shall be limited to restocking the bank to one time per school year, . X. The member receiving the days from the Sick Leave Bank shall not be required to pay back the number of days borrowed from the bank. I. The member may not withdraw any additional donated sick days from the bank except through the above procedure. J. The sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval may be terminated by a two-thirds (66%) vote of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teachercurrent year’s return to work. d. Days taken from membership. If the sick leave bank shall apply only is terminated, any contributing members who are currently employed by the district may regain up to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following their total number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9donated days. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) less than the total of all current employees’ donated days available, then the days remaining will be pro-rated to the nearest one half, rounding down so that no days are returned that are not remaining in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution bank. Any remaining days will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) daysdiscarded.

Sick Leave Bank. The school corporation agrees toA. All teachers on active duty in FCPS are eligible to contribute to the Sick Leave Bank (SLB). Contributors will be permitted to use the bank for payment of prolonged, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave catastrophic, incapacitating personal illness, injury, or quarantine of the teacher during the regularly scheduled duty days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when illness, injury, or quarantine is not likely to permanently disable the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IVteacher. B. Annual rates of contribution shall be as determined by the Association and certified to the Superintendent prior to July 1 of each year. Sick leave properly authorized to the SLB for contribution will not be returned if the member effects cancellation. Cancellation, on the proper form, may be elected at any time and the member shall not be eligible to use the SLB as of the effective cancellation date. C. Teachers may join the SLB between July 1 and October 1. The sick Members returning from extended leave bank shall apply will be permitted to all persons employed by contribute to the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies. 2. A “contributing individual” is one who, SLB within the first thirty (30) days of return to work. New teachers will be permitted to join the contract yearSLB within thirty (30) days after employment begins. D. Members of the SLB are eligible to access the SLB on the first scheduled duty day. The Approval Committee, signs upon receipt of a contribution formrequest for days, shall immediately forward to Human Resources a copy of said request. E. Human Resources shall within five (5) days to inform the Approval Committee in writing of any concerns or information that may have a bearing on the Approval Committee's decision. Such contribution form shall require the assigning The maximum number of sick days that can be granted in connection with any single occurrence of an illness or complications arising from such an occurrence will be equal to one (1) day work year. F. If a member is still unable to return to work after exhaustion of all SLB benefits, unpaid leave shall be made available in accordance with Article XXVIII. In lieu of said unpaid leave, the member, at their option, may apply for disability retirement benefits; however, in the event that a member who has been retired due to disability desires to return to active duty upon the expiration of such disability retirement benefits, the Board agrees to assign the member to a position in accordance with Article XXVIII, section L. G. In no case will the granting of leave from the SLB cause a member to receive more than their annual salary. H. Members must use all accumulated sick leave before applying for leave from the SLB. Application for use of the SLB shall be made on the required form and submitted to the approval committee. I. An Approval Committee, appointed by the Association President, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, recommending approval or denial of the request, and communicating its decision to the member and Human Resources. The Approval Committee shall develop its rules of procedures and shall give wide distribution of said rules upon approval of the Board of Directors of the Association and the Superintendent. J. Upon receipt of the decision of the Approval Committee, Human Resources shall verify that the request is within the limits of the SLB balance, that the applicant's accumulated sick leave has been exhausted and that the applicant's illness is prolonged, catastrophic, incapacitating, and personal. The decision of the Approval Committee shall be approved by Human Resources unless the decision of the approval committee is arbitrary or capricious. Upon issuance of such approval, the Human Resources shall forward the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up grant to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment periodthe Payroll Office. 3. A person K. Any disputes arising from this Article shall cease to be expedited through the grievance procedure provided herein, except that the American Arbitration Association's expedited labor arbitration rules shall govern the proceedings. L. If a contributing individual upon member does not use all of the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days granted from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member bank, the following yearunused SLB days will be returned to the SLB. 4. Present and new faculty M. Non-FCTA members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period. 5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations: a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time charged an administrative fee of $200 for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committeeeach SLB request processed. b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee. c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work. d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability. e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day. f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay. g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract. h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year. i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy. j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows: (1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee. 6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period. 7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract. 8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year. 9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.