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Wilking resigns as AD; moves to Wyoming By Tom Skeen
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GREEN TWP. — After nine years as athletic director and 15 years at Oak Hills High School, Jan Wilking has accepted the athletic director position with Wyoming City Schools effective Aug. 1. The school board approved the move July 1. “Wyoming is a great community and they are in a fantastic league,” Wilking said. “… I think anybody who has been around the Cincinnati area for any amount of time certainly knows all
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the good things Wyoming has to offer.” In her role as athletic director at Oak Wilking Hills, she served as vice president of the Greater Miami Conference, led a $1 million turf field capital campaign and $500,000 fitness center fundraising effort. She was the Title IV compliance coordinator for athletics and was once awarded the Ohio Athletic Adminis-
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mine how much solar energy can be produced,” he said. The Solar Pathfinder allows the assessor to deliver the client and easy to understand report detailing how much electricity or hot water can be generated by a solar energy system or how much shade and sun a garden plot will receive. Divelbiss said the ecovillage is hosting a workshop from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at the Imago Earth Center, 700 Enright Ave. The workshop will cover how to use the Solar Pathfinder and how to apply its results to solar electric, solar thermal and garden plot decision making, he said. The workshop is $30
trator Horizon Award. “… There are a lot of great people who make up (the Oak Hills community),” Wilking said, “and I think when you look over the last nine years and some of the things that those people have been able to do in terms of the facility upgrades and working to make Oak Hills competitive in our conference, I think those are some of the things I’m really proud of.” The process for finding Wilking’s replacement is underway and superintendent Todd Yo-
per person, which includes a one-day rental of the Solar Pathfinder to complete an assessment at one’s own home. “We’re doing this workshop to teach folks how to use the Solar Pathfinder,” Divelbiss said. “We haven’t had a workshop like this before. Hopefully we get a decent number of folks to come out.” He said several ecovillage residents have already used the solar tool, and he would like to see more people throughout the neighborhood put it to use and begin capitalizing on solar energy. A solar site assessment is $50 for neighborhood residents and $40 for ecovillage members. To reserve a spot at the workshop, or learn more about solar assessments, send an email to solar@enrightecovill age.org.
hey hopes to have the candidates narrowed down as soon as possible. “We are currently in the process of establishing a search committee and accepting applications,” Yohey said. “We hope to begin the process as early as (the week of July 1).” In her new role Wilking will manage all athletic activities for Wyoming students grades seven through 12. She is replacing former Wyoming athletic director Scott Kaufmann, who accepted the assistant principal/athletic director
position at Lakota East High School in May. “Janice’s passion for providing athletic and leadership opportunities for every student was a clear indicator of her ability to effectively manage the Wyoming athletic program,” Wyoming Superintendent Dr. Susan Lang said in a press release announcing the move. “We are excited to welcome her to our district and we look forward to working with her as she guides our student-athletes in their athletic, academic and social opportunities.”
While the Wilking family will continue to live in the Oak Hills area and her kids will still attend Oak Hills schools, Yohey wishes nothing but the best for his former athletic director in her new life venture. “We thank Mrs. Wilking for her many years of service to the studentathletes and coaches at Oak Hills High School,” he said. “Jan has set high standards for our athletic department and we wish her the best in her new position with Wyoming City Schools.”
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“I clicked on it and then I read it and I literally started crying because I didn’t know what to do.” Kelsey said she remembered what her parents and school counselors had said about picking a college which made her decision much easier. “Throughout my whole college process everyone was saying, ‘You’ll get that feeling,’” she said. “I went to look at colleges as far west as University of Washington-Seattle and as far east as New York University and I never had that feeling and it was frustrating to me. “Then it finally hit me that I never had that feeling anywhere else because I’d always had it at Xavier.”
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is still waiting to learn about federal cuts to another school program that will likely balance out any additional funds they will receive from the state. “In theory, from an overall revenue perspective, we’re going to be about flat lined, which is what we included in our forecast,” she said during a July1board of education meeting. Yohey said that the additional funds will not eliminate the need to place a five-year 4.82-mill emergency levy on the Nov. 5 ballot. “After a few years of decreased state funding, we are thankful for an increase,” he said. “However, the gap in funding that created the need for new revenue is $5.2 million per year. There is still a need
for the operating levy.” The Oak Hills school board voted July 1 to have the Hamilton County Auditor certify a five-year emergency levy to raise $5.2 million for operating expenses. Once the auditor certifies the amount, the board will then have to pass a resolution to place the levy on the ballot. This would be a second attempt to pass a levy in the district after a fiveyear 4.82-mill emergency levy failed on the May 7 ballot. » Cincinnati Public Schools spokeswoman Janet Walsh said in terms of basic state aid the biennial budget represents an increase over the previous state budget, which is welcome. “This is still a lower level of state aid than our district received in 2009, however the increase is welcome because we are facing higher costs,” she said.
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Walsh said Cincinnati Public will receive about $8.8 million of additional funding in 2014 and about $15.8 million in fiscal year 2015. “It is by no means a bonanza because we are still facing financial pressures and we need to hold the line on spending,” she said. The CPS board of education approved the district’s 2013-2014 general fund budget at the end of June, she said. The roughly $474 million spending plan represents no overall increases in expenditures by the school district, she said. In a statement, Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan said the 2013-2014 budget advances the district’s academic goals of early literacy, more rigorous K-12 standards, preparation for college readiness and infusing technology into the curriculum through blended learning experiences. She said the budget was finalized with no major cuts to student services. “I believe this budget keeps the focus on learning, students and families,” Ronan said. A $52 million deficit the district projected last fall was erased by eliminating positions, reducing non-personnel spending and consultant contracts and carefully monitoring this year’s expenses. The district’s five-year forecast projects continued fiscal challenges in the coming years and all expenses will need to be scrutinized, Walsh said. “We really, really need to be very careful because costs continue to rise. We are not out of the financial woods yet.”