{"id":73282,"date":"2016-02-10T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73282"},"modified":"2016-02-10T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:47:22","slug":"vw-school-board-oks-cliftons-re-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/vw-school-board-oks-cliftons-re-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"VW school board OKs Clifton’s re-hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Van Wert City Board of Education heard a presentation on the successes of the high school\u2019s \u201cWe, the People\u201d participants, while also approving the re-employment of former VWHS principal Bill Clifton as administrative assistant to Superintendent Ken Amstutz.<\/p>\n

Jeff Kallas, advisor for the VWHS \u201cWe, the People\u201d program, and four of his students formed a panel indicative of the program and its success this year in finishing second in the state with its best score ever.<\/p>\n

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The Van Wert City Board of Education approved re-employing\u00a0former VWHS principal Bill Clifton (above), giving him a new contract as administrative assistant to Superintendent Ken Amstutz on Tuesday.<\/strong>\u00a0(VW independent file photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clifton\u2019s re-employment was also approved following a public hearing held at the January board meeting.<\/p>\n

Also Tuesday, the school board held a public hearing on next school year\u2019s calendar, as required by law. Amstutz said the calendar would be approved at the March board meeting.<\/p>\n

The superintendent also talked about the possible benefits if the Long Prairie Wind Farm is completed. Amstutz said Phase 1 of the two-phase project would provide between $115,000 and $120,000 a year for 20 years, while Phase 2 would generate approximately $840,000 a year in PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) revenues — a total of nearly $1 million in new revenues for the district.<\/p>\n

The board also approved the following personnel actions:<\/p>\n

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  • Approved the following first year mentors for the 2015-16 school year: Kim Werling, Julia Reichert, Mike Myers, Tiffany Werts, Jennifer Trittschuh, Mary Kramer, Karen Emerine, Sara Royer, Betty Holliday, Anita Zuber, Charlie Witten, and Tricia Hughes.<\/li>\n
  • Approved the following second year mentors: Nikki Adams, Nate Hoverman, Michelle Hoffman, Kim Werling, and Mike Myers.<\/li>\n
  • Approved the following third year mentors: Ashley Breese, Betsy Davis, Traci McCoy, Ashley McElroy, Tom Baer, and Krista Baer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Approved the following supplemental contracts for the 2015-16 school year: Betty Holliday, assistant VWHS track coach; Ben Laudick, assistant VWHS track coach (50 percent).<\/p>\n

    Approved the following supplemental contracts for the 2016-17 school year: Emily Holliday, VWHS boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 cross country head coach.<\/p>\n

    The board also accepted the following donations: $400 from the Van Wert Rotary Foundation and $100 from Ohio City Community Church of God for the Unbroken<\/em> book project; $50 from Young & Yarger, Attorneys at Law, for the VWMS Renaissance project; $500 from Tufts University for the Elementary Wellness Program; $7,150 from the Mary Marxen Scholarship Fund for the band; $1,500 form the Paulding Putnam Electric Trust for the VWMS Washington, D.C., trip; $500 from Richard and Michelle Spridgeon for the Wrestling Athletic Account.<\/p>\n

    In other action, the board:<\/p>\n

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    • Approved a resolution accepting accounts and rates as determined by the Budget Commission and authorizing the necessary tax levies and certifying them to the Van Wert County Auditor\u2019s Office.<\/li>\n
    • Approved the treasurer\u2019s report, including the amended official certificate of estimates resources totaling $25,438,467.41 (General Fund) and $43,348,276.73 (all funds), with permanent appropriations for 2016 totaling $22,759,709.56 (General Fund) and $36,677,933.12 (all funds).<\/li>\n
    • Approved a memorandum of understanding with the Van Wert City Federation of Teachers for a change in the collective bargaining agreement that would include a $500 coaching stipend for the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 bowling head coaches.<\/li>\n
    • Authorized the VWHS Scholastic Bowl team to attend the Small School National Tournament in Chicago, Illinois, April 30-May 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The next meeting of the Van Wert City Board of Education will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in the First Federal Lecture Hall of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Van Wert City Board of Education heard a presentation on the successes of the high school\u2019s \u201cWe, the People\u201d participants, while also approving the re-employment of former VWHS principal Bill Clifton as administrative assistant to Superintendent Ken Amstutz. Jeff Kallas, advisor for the VWHS \u201cWe, the People\u201d program, and four of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 07:42:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}