ACSA Region 4 Human Resource Message Board for Fire Recovery
Note: The information here is not intended as legal advice. Information that contributors add are subject to editing.
Name/Title/District/Email Issue or Question
Nicole Glentzer
Assistant Superintendent
Human Resources
Ukiah Unified School District
nglentzer@uusd.net
Tracking of Displace Employees: We've created a Google Sheet to track staff and students who have
displaced. It's helped us to know what resources to deploy and support to give.
Pay for Employees While School is Closed: Schools were closed for a week. Employees will get paid for time
they would have worked. Office staff, administrators, and M&O staff were still required to report to work, if they
could. They will not get paid any more for having reported to work.
Preparation to Restart School: The Friday before we reopened schools we held staff meetings at each site.
Every employee from the site was asked to attend if they could. At the two most impacted sites we had a
Marriage and Family Therapist attend the meeting. She opened the meeting with having people share what they
were feelings. It was very helpful to get help staff grieve flush out their own emotions before facing students.
Personal Leave: Our contracts allow employees to use 10 days of sick leave for personal necessity leave.
Those who have lost homes may need to take more than 10 days to re-establish a home. School and College
Legal Services wrote an update on this matter that is very helpful. They have given me permission to share their
the update in this message board, Click here for the update.
Additional Subs/Coverage:We have hired additional subs to be on-call on the first day back from school. This
has been helpful since a few people didn't report their absence and at least one is exhausted from the turmoil of
being evacuated and can't work the full day. District TOSAs and administrators were deployed to sites for extra
support to start the school day and remain on call to cover a class if need arises during the day.
Counseling Support: We've also "borrowed" counselors from neighboring districts and outside agencies to be
at school sites for additional counseling support.
Employee Assistance Program: Many employees are emotionally devastated and may need counseling
support. We have reminded our employees that if they are insured by the district they can access free
counseling support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). (If you are unsure what an Employee
Assistance program is, click here to see information on the UUSD EAP. Keep in mind that the contact
