The Governing Board recognizes its statutory duty to pay employees of this Center in full for days on which they are absent from work for reasons of personal disability or pregnancy, and illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family.

All employees of the Center eligible for sick leave shall receive fifteen (15) such sick leave days annually at the rate of one and one-quarter (1 1/4) a month. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to 260 days. Regular part-time employees shall be entitled to sick leave in proportion to the time actually worked.

The Board shall accept by transfer the accumulated sick leave up to 260 days which any new employee has acquired in another position of public service in Ohio, provided that the last termination of such service shall have been within the last ten (10) years.

New employees shall be credited with five (5) days sick leave in advance which shall be part of the fifteen (15) days that can be accumulated for the year.

The Superintendent shall develop administrative guidelines to implement this policy.