Buyout of Annual Leave Accumulated by the College
President
The
Board of Trustees of Highline Community College has the authority to prescribe
such rules and regulations as the Board may determine governing vacation leave
for academic and professional personnel of the College under RCW
43.01.042.
The
Board of Trustees recognizes that the College’s president may, due to the
demands of her or his duties, accrue annual leave in excess of the amount which
the president is able to use within a reasonable time during employment by the
College.
Annual
leave for College employees serves to promote the health, well-being, and
longevity of the employee. Nonetheless, pursuant to the Board’s authority to
determine rules governing vacation leave, the Board has determined that it is
in the College’s best interest to allow the president of the College to have
the option of having excess accrued annual leave purchased back by the College
when the president has been unable to take vacation due to the demands of the
position.
The
Board will consider requests from the College’s president to buy back annual
leave no more than one time each fiscal year.
However, such a request will require that the president maintain a
cumulative total of 160 hours of annual leave after such buy back. Any buy-back of accrued vacation under this
policy will be
subject to the standard deductions and withholding required by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. This compensation will not be subject to
mandatory employer contributions for TIAA/CREF employees or result in any
increase in a retirement allowance under any public retirement system in this
state.
The
Board will duly consider any such request for the buy back of a president’s
accumulated annual leave. However, the
Board retains discretion as to whether and to what extent leave will be bought
back by the College in any given fiscal year, after giving due consideration to
the economic impact of such a buy back upon the College budget and the
well-being of the president.
ORIGINAL SIGNED ON OCTOBER 9; 2003
Ed
Davila, Acting Chair
APROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES