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Policy committee removes "usually" from sick leave bank retroactivity language
Summary
Committee members flagged ambiguous wording in the sick leave bank draft that said allocations were "usually retroactive," proposing to remove "usually" and rely on a conditional "however" clause to explain exceptions.
The Lakeland Joint School District policy committee reviewed draft language for the sick leave bank and agreed to tighten phrasing about retroactivity.
Chair criticized the line that read "Sick leave bank allocations are usually retroactive," calling the word "usually" ambiguous and asking what conditions would make an allocation not retroactive. Staff member recommended removing "usually" and keeping the existing "however" clause to describe exceptions, saying, "So we can just we could just eliminate the word usually on both of those are retroactive, and then we do have a however statement in there." The committee accepted that approach and will update the draft before sending it to the board.
