The Board of Education shall adopt regulations for the following types of leave for District employees. An employee’s contract may modify the following:

1. Personal Day Off (PDO)

1. 1. One PDO equals the number of regularly scheduled hours in a workday. If the number of scheduled hours to be worked is four hours, that employee’s PDO will equal four hours. If the hours scheduled to work are eight hours, the PDO will equal eight hours, etc.
   2. Employees will earn 1 PDO for every twenty days scheduled to work for support staff (exception of 12 month custodians and bus drivers) and contracted (including extended contract) for certified staff. Staff will not be given PDO credit for other assignments such as extra duty, volunteering, extra trips or summer school.
   3. Bus Drivers and 12 month Custodians: Will earn one (1) PDO day for every thirty-two (32) days scheduled to work. Custodians will not be given PDO credit for other assignments such as extra duty, volunteering or summer school.
   4. Employees may accumulate up to thirty PDO’s. Employees will be reimbursed for PDO’s accumulated in excess of thirty days. Certified staff will be reimbursed at a rate equal to the base substitute teacher’s pay per day. Support staff will be reimbursed at a rate equal to the minimum base pay, hourly rate; on the support staff’s salary schedule scale they are being paid.

2. Vacation
   1. Full time staff (with the exception of custodians and bus drivers) will earn 6 2/3 hours of vacation for each month employed. 10 days per year for the first through the fifth year of employment. Full time staff will earn 10 hours of vacation for each month employed, 15 days per year for the sixth and each year thereafter. If the number of regularly scheduled hours to work is less than eight hours, then the number of allotted hours for vacation will be in direct proportion. For example, if an employee is scheduled to work four hours per day, then that employee will earn 3 1/3 hours of vacation for each month worked. For the purposes of this section, a full-time staff member is defined as an employee who is employed with the district for twelve months, 52 weeks, and 260 days per year.
   2. Custodial Department
      • Year 0-2 will earn one (1) day of vacation for every 52 days worked; five (5) days total/year
      • Year 3-5 will earn one (1) day of vacation for every 26 days worked; ten (10) days total/year
      • Years 6-10 will earn one (1) additional day for every year worked; CAPPING AT 15 DAYS
      • Year 6 will earn one (1) day for every 23.50 days worked, eleven (11) days total.
      • Year 7 will earn one (1) day for every 21.50 days worked, twelve (12) days total.
      • Year 8 will earn one (1) day for every 20.00 days worked, thirteen (13) days total.
      • Year 9 will earn one (1) day for every 18.50 days worked, fourteen (14) days total.
      • Year 10 will earn one (1) day for every 17.00 days worked, fifteen (15) days total.
      • ***VACATION HOURS CANNOT BE USED UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN EARNED***
      • If the number of regularly scheduled hours to work is less than eight hours, then the number of allotted hours for vacation will be in direct proportion

c. Employees may carry over up to two weeks in a fiscal year. Employees will be paid out in excess of the two weeks at the end of the fiscal year.

d. Employees will be reimbursed for each day of vacation in excess of the number of days they are allowed to carryover at a rate equal to their daily/hourly rate.

3. Bereavement:                                 Refer to regulation 4320
4. Leave for Jury Duty                 Refer to regulation 4320
5. Military Leave                                 Refer to regulation 4320
6. Leave of Absence                 Refer to regulation 4320
7. Family and Medical Leave Act  Refer to Policy and Regulation 4321
8. Domestic/Sexual Violence Victim Leave Refer to Policy and Regulation 4322

At the beginning of each fiscal year, the staff’s PDO account will be credited with the unused PDO’s from prior years and the PDO’s to be earned during the current year.  Credited PDO’s are based on projected schedule days worked and/or contracted days. Staff that use PDO’s in excess of the PDO’s in their account will have a payroll deduction equivalent to the time off. Staff who resigns and has used PDO’s that they have not earned will reimburse the school, or have deducted from their last check, an amount equal to the PDO’s used but not earned.

Employees may not use vacation prior to having earned vacation.

Other forms of leave may not be taken without prior authorization. Special requests for advance use of PDO’s or vacation may be submitted to the Superintendent before such desired use; however, approval will not be routinely granted. Specific provisions for the use of the various forms of District leave are set forth in Regulation 4320.