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Jordan Board directs staff to combine DP 338 policies, remove reimbursement clause for licensed employees in public office
Summary
At its Feb. 11 study session the Jordan Board of Education voted to direct staff to return a consolidated DP 3 3 8 policy (special leave for employees elected to public office) that eliminates paragraph 2(c), the clause requiring employees who receive pay for public service to reimburse the district a portion of their salary.
The Jordan Board of Education on Feb. 11 directed staff to prepare a consolidated version of administrative policy DP 3 3 8, removing paragraph 2(c) that would have required licensed employees who receive pay for elected public office to reimburse the district for days missed.
The motion, made by Mister Dunford and seconded by Mister Barnett, asks staff to bring back a combined DP 3 3 8 and DP 3 3 8b for final approval at the board's next meeting. The motion passed on a unanimous voice vote.
Board members and district staff said the change is intended to streamline language and align policy with current practice. Superintendent Anthony Godfrey reviewed the text the executive committee recommended: the explicit reimbursement language in paragraph 2(c) would be removed and the subject line retitled “special leave for employees elected to public office.” Godfrey said the draft would broaden the policy to apply to all employees if approved.
Board members asked how flexible the new wording would be in practice. Godfrey and Associate Superintendent Mike Anderson said the language uses discretionary phrasing (“may”) so that administrators and employees can negotiate arrangements that both allow public service and maintain job responsibilities. Anderson said the revision’s goal is “to accommodate both filling the duties of an elected office and the duties of an employee” without prescribing a single approach for every case.
Mister Dunford framed the board direction as a staff assignment rather than an immediate policy adoption. The motion on the floor read, in part, “I move that we direct staff to present for final approval next meeting a combined DP 3 3 8 and DP 3 3 8b in which we eliminate paragraph 2c.” The board approved the motion by voice vote.
The board also earlier temporarily suspended the Robert’s Rules-of-Order formality that required addressing the president as “madam president,” but that procedural vote was separate from the DP 3 3 8 motion.
What’s next: Staff will prepare the consolidated DP 3 3 8/DP 3 3 8b draft that removes paragraph 2(c) and present it for final board approval at the district’s next public meeting. The revised policy will then replace the existing DP 3 3 8 language if formally adopted.
