49-5-5508 - Payment of supplement to supervisors.
49-5-5508. Payment of supplement to supervisors.
(a) All supplements due to supervisors under parts 50 and 52-54 of this chapter and this part shall be paid directly by the department of education to the LEA and shall be in addition to its foundation entitlement program, and not a part of the foundation entitlement program.
(b) Once determined, the state salary supplement for career level supervisors shall remain constant notwithstanding any increased training and experience attained.
(c) All supplements shall be subject to the availability of funds as appropriated in each year's general appropriations act.
(d) Any person receiving a salary supplement under parts 50 and 52-54 of this chapter and this part shall continue to receive the state base pay to which the person would be entitled if the person were not receiving a salary supplement provided for in this part. In devising its local salary schedule, an LEA may not reduce or freeze the pay of any person receiving a salary supplement under parts 50 and 52-54 of this chapter and this part, but the person shall receive any local pay to which supervisors with similar training and experience are otherwise entitled.
(e) If the usual term of a supervisor's employment extends to eleven (11) or twelve (12) months, and the state and local base pay of the supervisor is paid for each of these months, the supervisor shall be eligible only for that portion of the supplement provided for in parts 50 and 52-54 of this chapter and this part that represents a reward for outstanding performance, and not that portion that represents compensation for the eleventh or twelfth month of service that the supervisor would not otherwise perform.
(f) In order to ensure that no federal funds used to pay a supervisor are withheld due to the payments made under parts 50 and 52-54 of this chapter and this part, any payment made under parts 50 and 52-54 of this chapter and this part to a supervisor whose base compensation is paid from federal funds shall be limited, to the extent necessary, to those funds that constitute the supplement for outstanding performance, and not those funds that constitute compensation for work performed by a supervisor during the eleventh or twelfth month of a contract.
[Acts 1984 (1st E.S.), ch. 7, § 63.]