St. Johns County School District – presented the Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton Make-up days.
On Thursday, September 26th and Friday, September 27, 2024, the school district closed due to Hurricane Helene. On Wednesday, October 9, Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11, 2024, the school district closed due to Hurricane Milton. All employees were paid for those 5 days, and the district was closed to students.
To make-up time for students and employees, using the board approved school calendar for the 2024-2025 the next identified hurricane make-up day is Monday, November 11, 2024, which is a student/teacher holiday. To make up time for students the district presented adding 2 days to the 1st semester by utilizing the early release Wednesday’s. The following Wednesdays will be a full schedule student contact days, November 13th, 20th, December 4th, 11th, and 18th. The second semester make-up full schedule student contact days will be January 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th and February 5th, 2025.
- Employees will need to make-up four (4) days, either through using appropriate leave time (emergency, personal or vacation), or working additional time by working together with their school/department administrators.
- If an employee took a sick day on any of the days that the district closed, they may request a return of those hours.
- FCTC – make-up of student contact hours will require an amendment to the adult student schedule to capture the clock hours for licensure.
SJEA/SJESPA – proposed the following added to the MOU
- Instructional employees may log hours worked on the days the district was closed.
- Due to missing planning time on Wednesdays, the in-service day on February 14, 2025, shall be modified so that half the day is dedicated to individual teacher planning.
SJCSD – agreed to Planning time on February 14th, and changed Instructional employees to “All employees” and added “may log hours worked on the days the district was closed with the exception of hurricane shelter operations.
The MOU- Hurricane Make-up Days was TA’d. It is now subject to ratification.
MOU- Hurricane Make-Up days for Helene and Milton
