employ ease and title to compensation an excess of what their contracts provide the official school closing date as originally adjusted by a couple of days the employees work only the exact number of days were paid for the exact number of days called for by their contracts t or judge nonetheless felt that they were entitled to extra compensation for those two extra days based on section ten days nineteen of the illinois school cool and what have done so the school board acted in the upmost of good faith or there's no claim that the school board didn't act in the best interests of the kids and deciding not to declare these two days is an act of god days and so acting in the best interests of the kids i think the school board acted appropriate such additional crime on the basis of their regular contractors why would it even be necessary to have a sentence in the statute it's necessary to have that sense in the statute for a couple of  that any adjustment in the school calendar is going to be governed by the regular contracts negotiated by departments that's one reason the nd reason is it tells th will school calendar is a pretty good indication that they were satisfied that the compensation to be paid for any adjusted calendar day was to be included as part of the negotiated salaries otherwise they wouldn't have pegged their salary schedule to the official school calendar but that's what the statute says that is go expansion it says if there's a necessary speech and you get paid pursuant to your regular contract and if the regular can't back provide for additional compensation then of course they're going to get paid and bushnell are extra compensation we pointed out in our opening bring back to the school cold leaves it up to the plans to negotiate compensation for the employees and if they have already negotiate that if the employees have already done that then the state should wonder why now i find that construction troubling i find it troubling because there is nothing in the statute that says that it applies so one of the different contracts you know with which you find  it but i think i would agree with the proposition that if they negotiate extra compensation when the school calendar is adjusted then they're entitled to extra compensation pursuant to the terms of their contract in the plaintiffs agreed that they're entitled to negotiate the plaintiffs of agreed that they're entitled to negotiate the very compensation that we're talking about in this case on appeal today and if they have done so when the their additional compensation in their contracts and i think it's safe to assume that they were satisfied that the compensation we righted for their contracts adequately covered for the days in those five days were devoted to the original budgeted snow day so it was impossible to work in these two days during the after time and prior to may twenty we have school days we have salaries with senate increases pending on the steps that are in the contract and you can tell i've been on a school board and i'm sure sounds like you're at these rate in your salary there's nothing in the contracts is extra the contract already requires that you get paid extra in which case it means nothing right at the legislature even put it there we don't think that is a reasonable construction and we extended beyond the original closing date into the summer when employees would merely think they could go ahead and play indications and the like then we back east and in that case only they ought to receive good for that and the calendar is somehow extended then the contract controls which is exactly what you're saying the contract controls we don't get extra but the contract control which is i mean as i look at your argument school districts need sound kind of stability and i'm sure you would agree with that absolutely i do your interpretation of the contract there would be no way for a school district to anticipate or even the state of illinois statewide to anticipate the kind of friend the actual burden that you're imposing on school districts because there would be no way to predict ex modify that really the calendar is extended beyond the original closing date counsel said it was a point in time from the point in time that it said that in august correct so again it seems to me that you're imposing at that point ok humana teachers teachers collectively bargain with the school district right yes they know about the statute they're presume to know about the  how the court arrived at the word additional compensation when he put in his order he's not right by finding this gentleman he's not saying what the policy of the state  think what the trial judge was saying is that you know this is a policy decision that the legislature has made that if the calendar is extended at the end of it when the closing date is pushed out into the summer then in that questions because i do understand they conceive the appeal of the district's position when it says hey roque we ask for one hundred and eighty dollars days of service you gave one hundred of service you were paid for a one hundred and eighty dollars days of service what's the problem i get that all right but there were other alternatives that would not have cost the district extra money we've already talked about an act of god i wish say well we have to assume that would not have been granted because they already were only giving one hundred and seventy four days instead of one hundred and seventy six as contemplated by the statute we don't have evidence to attend school on a weekend or a holiday or a very good i think all three have required the school be in attendance on saturday would that be popular obviously not what about a strike but if the teachers will went on strike for three days or four days or such that the school calendar had to be amended and they had teachers with this provision of line under your analysis of the teachers go on strike and well i think the school district could still have the discretion to schedule extra days before were the end of the school year not if they used up all the time my my hypothetical is it seems to me that under your argument that any timing no matter the circumstance because the statute doesn't say act of god but it could include a wide variety of circumstances including the strike so if i understand what your argument is any time you original count was modified where the teachers have to take the stand then they  calendar even though we met our obligation on the contract we want more money so something somebody stop it should be involved somewhere under the statute i'm not saying it's not i do fault the get x salary for one hundred and eighty days of work one hundred and seventy five for support staff and those are good days will be in accordance with the calendar at the time i'm a get i don't remember whether it that's when we don't make the argument it is a district head schedule two saturdays of people attendance i bet my clients would have been grabbing i would give you that but i wouldn't be here then the legislature not you but the legislature with its language as interpreted by the court has put school districts across illinois streamer it's because the calendar is set in the because when they make a decision in the summer they really have no home it's a crapshoot as to when they complete right that is predictable it would be prudent for a school district to b time based upon we think that's exactly right the statute has to set this but it does it recognizes but there's a tradeoff between needing school employees to be ready to be able to work during the school year during the original that families do need to play and should be able to play indications and therefore there should be additional pay but how many snow days were allocated originally by the school and that's why i said it had been and section ten teams says if the district was unable to provide one hundred and seventy six student attendance days and it becomes necessary to extend the year they  may be wed you can give meaning to those words by saying well that means using the podium rate which as you know from serving on a school board is a standard method of figuring out compensation if for example if a when there are collectively bargained agreements there certainly are school work places in which the right to collective bargaining agreements and in which the only contracts there would be would be maybe individual teacher w contracts in the case of support staff there may not be contracts at all it may just be a condom or all current contract of employment and agreement that you will be paid those salary in exchange for so many days of wear so i think back then you're entitled to the minimum wage for those two additional days you're entitled to your regular wage let's be clear though about this for him teachers in this collective bargaining agreement  wanted to ask you about this strike business i came up with under the class members analysis and their arguments in court do you agree that even if there was a teacher's ri