Know Your Contract by Tomia Smith

The following is taken from Article V: Fringe Benefits, pages 4-12. The headings have been included for each benefit with Section J being highlighted at this time. You may refer to your contract for further explanation regarding the other benefits.

• A. Health Insurance
• B. Dental Plan
• C. Flexible Benefits Plan
• D. Tuition Reimbursement Plan
• E. Sick Leave
• F. Unpaid Leaves of Absence
• G. Personal Days
• H. Life Insurance
• I. Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan
• J. Long Term Illness Protection Plan

J. Long Term Illness Protection Plan
Effective February 1, 1974, all teachers who have completed three or more years of continuous
service in the district who have been absent from work for over twenty (20) consecutive work
days due to a medically certifiable illness and who have expended their sick bank salary
protection shall be eligible for coverage under the self-insured district long term illness
protection plan in accordance with the following regulations and procedures:

     1.  Applications for coverage can be arranged by contacting the District Personnel
	 Office in advance of the last day of salary coverage.

     2.  The teacher shall submit by mail or messenger an application for coverage and a
	 written report from his/her family physician concerning his/her illness. (Forms
	 available in the District Personnel Office.)

     3.  The application and the family physician's statement must be approved by the School
	 District Physician. Adequate informtion shall be provided to allow for a consultation
	 process between the physicians. Periodic verification of continuation of illness may
	 be requested by the Board from the teacher and his/her physician.

     4.  An approved applicant will be eligible to receive coverage at his/her annual base
	 salary per diem rate (1/200) up to a total of $6,000 commencing on the first work 
	 day of continued illness absence that the teacher is off the payroll by virtue of
	 having expended his or her sick leave bank. Such payment may take into account 
	 any benefits received by the teacher from Workmen's Compensation.

     5.  In the event that the teacher's illness extends over the summer vacation, coverage
	 payments will cease and resume on the first working day of the new school year 
	 and shall continue to the aforementioned limit. Regular yearly sick bank allotment 
	 shall be activated upon the first day that the teacher returns to work in the new 
	 anniversary year.

     6.  An individual who has been on extended sick leave benefit and who suffers a relapse
	 or a recurrence of the same illness will assume extended illness allowance at the
	 point reached when he/she returned to duty prior to such relapse or recurrence.

     7.  A total yearly sum of $60,000 shall be allocated by the Board of Education for such
	 purposes. Total payments in any one school year shall not exceed that amount and
	 any funds remaining shall not be accumulated or carried over.

     8.  Teachers who make application for a leave of absence for reasons of extended illness
   	 shall be eligible up to the limits of the plan.

     9.  Replenishment Clause
	 All teachers who have completed three or more years of continuous service in the
	 district who have been absent from work for over twenty (20) consecutive work days
	 due to a medically certifiable illness and who have not expended their sick bank
	 salary protection shall be eligible for a replenishment of sick days in the school
	 year following the medically certifiable illness in accordance with the following
	 procedure.
       
	 Application for such coverage shall be submitted at the time of illness in 
	 accordance with Items 2 and 3 (above).

	 The number of days to be replenished shall be determined by dividing the teacher's
	 1/200 annual base salary per diem rate into $6,000. The amount of days returned to
	 the teacher's sick bank shall not cause the bank to exceed the total number of days
	 credited prior to the commencement of the illness.

	 Such replenishment days shall not reasult in the teacher claiming sick day bonus
	 allocation. Such allocation shall be computed on the days remaining in the bank at
	 the close of the school year.

K.   Bereavement Days
L.   Sick Leave Bank

In unity,
Tomia Smith

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