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Wayne coach responsible for school's missing receipts

High school athletic director responsible for shortfall.

File photo: Wayne Warrior head coach Jay Minton is deep in thought as he talks to a player on the first day of high school football practice.

Staff photo by Jim Witmer File photo: Wayne Warrior head coach Jay Minton is deep in thought as he talks to a player on the first day of high school football practice.

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By Marc Katz, Staff Writer Updated 2:13 PM Friday, January 20, 2012

HUBER HEIGHTS — While Jay Minton was coaching his Wayne High School Warriors to a 58-19 victory over Sir Frederick Banting’s team from London, Ontario, last Sept. 9, $4,176 in gate receipts from the game did not make it to the bank.

Now school officials said Minton, who serves also as the school’s athletic director, is being held responsible for that money. The Huber Heights City Schools conducted an internal investigation and performed two audits — one by Clark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co. in Springfield and another by Ohio Auditor Dave Yost’s office — that were unable to determine how the money vanished.

If it is not found, Minton has been informed he will have to pay the bill. “It’s not fair, but it’s part of it,” he said. “It’s our gate receipts. It’s under my department.

“This is probably, indirectly, one of the toughest things I’ve been involved with. I didn’t have any access to that (money) or touch that or anything.

“But it’s under this department. I am responsible to make sure that money is back in there.”

Somewhere, Minton said, “there’s $4,176 floating out there. Was it taken out of this office? Was it taken by someone else? We’re not 100 percent certain.”

Huber Heights Superintendent Bill Kirby feels bad for Minton, but understands the athletic director’s office is responsible.

“We can’t find the money,” Kirby said. “We find it difficult (because Minton) didn’t even handle the money directly. We don’t know where it went. It was collected from gate receipts.

“We found out about it about a week after the game. We have locked bags to take the money to the bank, but it came back from the bank a couple of times because it was not in balance.”

Kirby and Minton said they had met to go over ways to recover the money for the school, but both said at the moment, it is Minton’s responsibility.

Minton, who has been head coach at Wayne for 14 years and athletic director for six, said he intends to pay the money himself unless someone comes forward with the missing funds. He also said several new protocols have been put in place to ensure this does not happen again.

“It’s like Fort Knox around here now,” Minton said.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2157 or mkatz@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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