Policy

This policy ensures that if individual work schedules and library budget allocations permit, the library may defray travel and/or registration expenses for staff members on authorized library business or attending professional or technical meetings and conferences.

Regulations

1. Library managers or department heads and the respective directors and deputy executive directors are authorized to approve travel and registration requests for staff who report to them.
2. The Metropolitan Library Commission through one of the officers must approve travel requests for the Executive Director.
3. The following criteria are applied in reviewing all requests:
   
   1. The staff member's last performance appraisal rating.
   2. Purpose of the travel and relationship of the trip to the staff member's library duties and position.
4. For requests to attend professional association meetings or conferences, preference will be given in accordance to the final approved annual budget.
5. The library does not allow compensatory time for travel to and from conferences and conference meetings that extend beyond the forty hour work week or the eight hour work day.