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Board updates employee handbook; mileage reimbursement threshold set to one mile
Summary
The Whitnall School District Board approved handbook changes that revert the travel reimbursement threshold from two miles to one mile to cover staff travel between district facilities such as Hills Corners Elementary.
The Whitnall School District Board approved changes to the 2025–26 employee handbook that adjust travel expense reimbursement so that travel of less than one mile one way will not be reimbursed, reversing a prior two-mile threshold.
At the meeting a board member asked why the change was proposed; a staff member explained the two-mile rule had excluded short, routine trips between district sites — for example, travel between the district campus and Hills Corners Elementary — and the board decided to move the threshold back to one mile to allow reimbursement for those regular duties. “We’re changing it back to a mile so that we can reimburse them,” a staff member said during discussion.
The change was discussed in the context of page 10 of the handbook (travel expenses). The board moved and seconded the item; the motion carried with no recorded opposition.
No dollar-per-mile rate changes were described at the meeting; the handbook update discussed only the distance threshold for eligibility.
