Load Banking

 

Please contact your campus Dean of Instruction for Load Banking forms and information.

 

Article XXII - LOAD BANKING

A. The District and the Association agree that it is desirable to take advantage of Education Code provisions permitting "load banking" based upon the following principles:

1. Only full-course overloads or equivalent will be eligible for load banking.
2. No more than 20% of a faculty member's annual load, not to exceed .4666 FTE, may be banked in any one (1) semester and no more than two (2) semester courses may be banked in any one (1) year.
3. No more than the equivalent of one semester's full-time load may be accumulated.
4. At any one (1) time no more than 6% of full-time faculty members may utilize their banked hours for a full semester reduction of load and such reduction of load may not be taken more than once every five (5) years.
5. Banked hours may be used by a faculty member to reduce a load during a semester. Faculty using banked hours have been granted a reduction of load, not a leave, as defined in Article XIII, Leaves, and are not excused from responsibilities enumerated in Article X, Section G. The faculty member must notify the administration of his/her intent to utilize a full-semester reduction of load at the time of submission of a tentative annual teaching assignment.
6. Banked hours may be used for professional or personal reasons excluding full-time employment with another college district.

B. A faculty member may "cash in" any portion of his/her load banked hours at any time. Where hours are "cashed in" instead of used for load banking, the faculty member shall be paid on the basis of the rate of pay in effect when the hours are cashed in, except that in no event can hours be accumulated beyond five (5) years after they were first earned.

C. Should a full-time faculty member die, the total value of his/her accumulated banked hours shall be paid to his/her beneficiary(ies) in a timely manner.