279.19A - EXTRACURRICULAR CONTRACTS.
279.19A EXTRACURRICULAR CONTRACTS.
1. School districts employing individuals to coach
interscholastic athletic sports shall issue a separate
extracurricular contract for each of these sports. An
extracurricular contract offered under this section shall be separate
from the contract issued under section 279.13. Wages for employees
who coach these sports shall be paid pursuant to established or
negotiated supplemental pay schedules. An extracurricular contract
shall be in writing, and shall state the number of contract days for
that sport, the annual compensation to be paid, and any other matters
as may be mutually agreed upon. The contract shall be for a single
school year.
2. An extracurricular contract shall be continued automatically
in force and effect for equivalent periods, except as modified or
terminated by mutual agreement of the board of directors and the
employee, or terminated in accordance with this section. An
extracurricular contract shall initially be offered by the employing
board to an individual on the same date that contracts are offered to
teachers under section 279.13. An extracurricular contract may be
terminated at the end of a school year pursuant to sections 279.15
through 279.19. If the school district offers an extracurricular
contract for a sport for the subsequent school year to an employee
who is currently performing under an extracurricular contract for
that sport, and the employee does not wish to accept the
extracurricular contract for the subsequent year, the employee may
resign from the extracurricular contract within twenty-one days after
it has been received.
Section 279.13, subsection 3, applies to this section.
3. The board of directors of a school district may require an
employee who has resigned from an extracurricular contract to accept,
as a condition of employment under section 279.13, the
extracurricular contract for no longer than one additional school
year if all the following conditions apply:
a. The employee has accepted a teaching contract issued by
the board pursuant to section 279.13 for the subsequent school year.
b. The board of directors has made a good faith effort to
fill the coaching position with a licensed or authorized replacement.
c. The position has not been filled by June 1 of the year in
which the employee resigned the extracurricular contract.
4. As a condition of employment under section 279.13, the board
of directors of a school district may require an employee who has
been issued a teaching contract pursuant to section 279.13 to accept
an extracurricular contract for which the employee is licensed, or
may require as a condition of employment that an applicant for a
teaching contract under section 279.13 accept an extracurricular
contract if all of the following conditions apply:
a. The individual who held the coaching position during the
year has not been issued a teaching contract by the board pursuant to
section 279.13 for the subsequent school year, or has been terminated
from the extracurricular contract.
b. The board of directors has made a good faith effort to
fill the coaching position with a licensed or authorized replacement.
c. The position has not been filled by June 1 of the year in
which the vacancy occurred for the interscholastic athletic sport.
5. Within seven days following June 1 of that year, the board
shall notify the employee in writing if the board intends to require
the employee to accept an extracurricular contract for the subsequent
school year under subsection 3 or 4. If the employee believes that
the board did not make a good faith effort to fill the position the
employee may appeal the decision by notifying the board in writing
within ten days after receiving the notification.
The appeal shall state why the employee believes that the board
did not make a good faith effort to fill the position. If the
parties are unable to informally resolve the dispute, the parties
shall attempt to agree upon an alternative means of resolving the
dispute.
If the dispute is not resolved by mutual agreement, either party
may appeal to the district court.
6. Subsections 3, 4, and 5 do not apply if the terms of a
collective bargaining agreement provide otherwise.
7. An extracurricular contract may be terminated prior to the
expiration of that contract pursuant to section 279.27.
8. A termination proceeding of an extracurricular contract either
by the board pursuant to subsection 2 or pursuant to section 279.27
does not affect a contract issued pursuant to section 279.13.
A termination of a contract entered into pursuant to section
279.13, or a resignation from that contract by the teacher,
constitutes an automatic termination or resignation of the
extracurricular contract in effect between the same teacher and the
employing school board.
9. For the purposes of this section, "good faith effort"
includes advertising for the position in an appropriate publication,
interviewing applicants, and giving serious consideration to those
licensed or authorized, and otherwise qualified, applicants who
apply.
10. The licensure requirements of subsections 3, 4, and 9 shall
not apply to community colleges. Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1296, § 1; 85 Acts, ch 74, §1--3; 89 Acts, ch 265, §
40; 90 Acts, ch 1182, § 3, 7; 2002 Acts, ch 1047, §16, 20
Referred to in § 272.15, 273.22, 275.33, 279.13, 279.19B