Um when we think about our target of students, there are a couple targets that we want. One is um the when I if we go back to that first slide, I should have put it on the end. Those 175ish students who have are living in Avon and accessing their education through another place like those would be targets to re to move some of those students back to Avon. Um the other piece would be we have kids that will tell the counselors or their SST that they are looking at leaving and going to a virtual school. So instead of them leaving and going to another virtual school, we like them to stay with ours. Um and then another piece which we'll talk about in my next presentation is students who um open enrollment. So students who do not live in Avon but um having them for their virtual.
They were really good with our speakers. They asked questions um and they did a great job representing us. So the juniors, so they have a career fair that they go to every year, and this is actually what kicked us off starting this process even last year when we did um all the grades. But they went to the ball in White Oaks ahead of time. They also went to the fire department because they got out of White Oaks faster than they expected. They had time to plan ahead which we in the afternoon didn't have quite the ability. But then they went from there to have lunch as a group and from there they went to the career fair and we heard wonderful things about the career fair. Um even my own junior daughter said, "Hey, there are two schools I want to add to our list." So, um, one of them relatively locally, so maybe you might save me a few dollars.
Um, and I watch both of you step back to the corner once it takes off and the teachers engage with each other and teach each other. And it is a wonderful, wonderful situation that I'm seeing in Huntington in terms of true professional learning communities happening with colleagues now in a very safe uh environment uh where we can reflect and talk and and work together. So, thank you for your presentation and all your work that you've been doing. We're blessed here. So, thank you. Next up, uh for our last topic of the evening, um Matt Stevenson is here, uh to talk a little bit about the employee benefit trust. Um I'm going to Matt didn't ask me to say this. He didn't give me hand me hand me a card before we started, but uh I will tell you uh my first year in Huntington, I was surprised.
It's the diagnostic which we already do. That's our math program in K to6. So thank goodness this is like the first time we're not going to have like an extra program. So it's something our kids already do. We picked right. >> We picked the right program. Um, so we won't have to have our K2 students taking an extra math assessment. We get to use what we already use. So that's really good news. >> Yes. >> Until they change it next year, >> right? Exactly. Don't say that. >> And that's something I >> They're pretty consistent at being inconsistent. Do we have any idea like staff allocated time and student allocated time to state initiatives? >> We've done that before. We need to do that. >> I know we Yeah, we talked about doing that. >> Yeah, we've talked about >> I can come up with something that >> it'll make you sick.
>> Cool name. >> Yeah, it is pretty cool. Nightstown. Imagine living in Nightstown. >> Nightstown. That's like a fantasy name. >> Mhm. Yep. No dragons coming there. That's literal Nightstown. That's like Superman going to Kryptoniteville. >> Exactly. [clears throat] Oh, yes. >> Kryptoniteville. >> We love Kryptoniteville. [laughter] >> All right. Yep. Emmen is sending as many blocks as he uh blocks of garbage as he can. So, one thing I don't think we have mentioned yet is that the reason all these guys are making matches is to send gray blocks to their opponent's board to attempt to top them out. The better combos you get, the more garbage, as it's called in the Tetris lingo, to your opponent. Actually, I'm pretty sure that's an official name. I think it's actually stated in the rules. >> I I think it is. Yeah. >> And speaking of which, look at that.
Any discussion? >> I second discussion. No hearing. None. Submit your vote. >> So that that's the last thing you need to get those things. >> Yes. Correct. Most car to sign that. I'll do that tonight. >> Okay. Social Security 6. >> I want to thank Stan and the city for their help in the project. We have had tremendous partnership with the county with economic development, the county commissioners, the city and us. That's what we need to do. We got to work together. People got to work together. >> Uh and hopefully we can see some future development there. >> Make a requirement on the north side. >> North school. >> Yeah. the northeast by the rec center and the middle property. >> There is an easement through there. There's no water line in that easement. >> Okay. The house on the west side there is. So, we are prepared whichever direction they set their houses to put the water >> to adjust it >> to to bring it to it.
You got to you know you're going to have you're going to be subject to a lot of more regulations that otherwise you wouldn't be. So, uh, if you're not going to be able to build a building, I would highly recommend you keep the you don't put you don't put the, uh, the police department as an addition. You keep it as a separate building. Uh, that's all I have to comment. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. In the back. George Murvine, 825 Club Road. And thank you very much again. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I think the safest place for a police officer should be their headquarters. And I really truly do believe that these gentlemen and these the ladies and gentlemen of the police department deserve a safe work environment. So, I'm I'm in favor of uh having a new police headquarters here in Burell. Um but I have some questions and I'd like to see if I can ask the architect about it.
Our teachers, I think, are average about 11.3 years, something like that. So we get a rating. We get a teacher experience index of as you go down there 1.0283. See number seven there. That's a teacher experience because they know it costs a little more to hire teachers with more experience. So we take that 15,497. We multiply it by the 1.0283. Now we're at 15,936. That gives us a nice little boost. And then we have two more things to add because we have buses that go up and down our highway. Uh we get another 1.2 million a year pretty much pretty much in the budget. So, our revenue control limit based on what students generate plus the transportation is 17.2 million. You saw that back on this sheet when we did our budget revision. The question is, do we have any more money than that to get through the year?
Now, when I said 9 through 12, we still will have a few middle schoolers that have significant like a significant purpose that we would continue um the virtual, but it wouldn't be something we're trying to grow. Um again, that'd be for specific medical or if there's a significant discipline piece. Um we, you know, by doing this that virtual school, we would like to connect that um with the Avon Simon Youth Academy. Um, again, they would be separate entities, but still, you think about it, we're targeting students um who maybe that inerson large high school is not their best fit. And then again, our goal would be or our plan would be to continue our partnership with Indiana Online. So, it wouldn't be leveraging our teachers. Um, it really would be leveraging teachers that are licensed teachers through Indiana Online. So, I feel like I shared a lot of information.
That would be good, too. But they they really did learn a lot. They learned a lot about different jobs. They also learned a lot about um different universities and opportunities. So, seniors got to design their own day. So, they got to decide if they wanted to go to a college visit or a job shadow. And they had a 95% participation rate. We had seven seniors come in, right, come back because they didn't want to miss school. They love her that much. So, we ran them doing errands. They they ran doing errands all day. But we had 12 different colleges that were visited out of our population. One even left the state. We had 47 different job locations within Carol County, Typic. And they got to design their own way of going. So, a couple of people went to see schools they hadn't seen before. One of them went to figure out where she was going to live.
I had not been to a self-funded insurance company. We were part of a consortium in my previous districts. And second of all, I had not been a part of one where it was teacher le as the majority in terms of the um meetings that we attend. And the last part would be Matt Stevenson is not only an excellent teacher in our district, but he is an extraordinary leader of others. Uh Matt is uh not going to tell you this, so I'm going to. But he leads a rather important group uh that benefits all employees in this district. He is very conscientious. He is very he takes input, but he also has to make decisions sometime on our committee. And so Matt, I appreciate your investment in Huntington, not just from the classroom, but your leadership role. You're very talented gentleman, and I appreciate you joining us tonight.
>> There's not not a lot of time to just >> teach. >> Especially this semester. >> Yes. Yeah, >> I'm sure that time change will help. Testing >> and influenza B helps a lot. >> Influenza B. >> Dr. Deal. Yeah, >> continuing with the theme, we had SAT, so our juniors were victimized to that last week. Um, you do need to have 95% attendance when it comes to the SAT, but I know that our schools are working really hard on that and just making little tweaks to help our students be successful. So, um, I was at the academy and I saw one of the math teachers and I know that the high school just had Desmos training, which is an online calculator and that's the exact same calculator that they use on the SAT. So, just being mindful and exposing kids to things so that they know how to operate and be more successful on those tests.
Lego Master rules. He got a point. >> He's blacking on him. Did you see that, Faith? Blacking on him. >> Oh my gosh, that smirk. Look at that. He is proud of himself after that. >> Is he hitting the big papa pump Scott Steiner emote? >> Mhm. He is going crazy. Look at that. Look at that. He's going at over a piece a second. Goodness gracious. Like he has to know which piece and know where to put it in the span of about a span of less than a second. That is crazy how fast he's going. >> You have to be very very comfortable with this game to go that fast. >> Yep. Yeah. I hear some people even change their controls entirely and make their controls all weird just so they can play Tetris better. I have no idea how people can adapt to that, but it is crazy.
That's not a problem. The water's there. We just have to extend. We don't need KBH's approval to do that. We don't need any >> Okay. [snorts] on this one. >> All right. Thank you for your assistance on all that. So, look forward to seeing that project about anybody want. They're going to be for sale tomorrow. [snorts] >> Um, >> Mr. Approval of the Hay bid. So, I think Aaron's here to see what what we do. Um, so the one thing I did see, uh, Erin, so, so the three to five year lease agreement I think you wanted, as you know, we're we're talking about school and all that stuff. So, we don't know, uh, what that's going to be. So, I mean, I personally, I don't know if I want to. We'd love for you to pay it, but I don't know if we want to get in.
Let me get my glasses out. I notice in the drawing we have um certain number of offices. We have six offices. Uh and we also have two large meeting rooms and so forth like that. Um we have two large locker rooms. The scale of this can it can we talk about maybe scaling this back some? I mean, the current size is 4,000 square feet, I believe, and this is going to be close to 9,000 square feet. Um, I work in healthcare. The nurse that works 7 to three, the charge nurse that works 7 to three shares the same office with the nurse who works 3 to 11 and the same nurse that works 11 to 7. Why don't we have shared office space here for the the captain and the lieutenant chief? I think you deserve an office, so I'm not going to challenge that office.
Well, thank goodness we do. Uh, we've got 850,000 this year that we bring in from capital that we could spend on more buses if we wanted to. And we brought forward because we talked to the auditor general uh I did maybe in June, July, August, maybe 40 times. So we could bring in uncaptured capacity from three and four years ago and we brought that up to 982,000 carry forward from last year. So those two, the 850 and the 982,000 plus the 313,000 from the state bring our budget up to the 19,350 for this year. And so if we go over to this this column right here, then we say, well, what if that happens next year? We don't lose one student and everything's the same. And the only change is we add the 2% to the funding, which takes it from 5,113 to 5,215. Now you look at what happens.
I know it's a big deal. So, I'm sure there's some questions that we'll want to discuss. >> I have a question about um it will there be some sort of priority for the Avon students over the open enrollment? Have we got that far? >> Yeah, I mean, no. There there would be. Um I think the piece is uh when we and we've you know have started having conversations about this there'll be um like a a contract and agreement is maybe is the better word that we if a student is saying they're interested in this that we'll go through like the counselor will go through with the student and their parent um to see really is this a good fit. Like we want them to go in there knowing what this is. It's not the same as in person and there's expectations if you're moving to online.
Um, Harrison told me that he learned and figured out exactly what he wants to do when he goes to school. So, it was a good day for all involved. >> Again, I want to thank uh Amy for Junior. She's not here and we've already thank them. Um, and now I would like to bring up Does anybody have questions about Sorry. entire house on the schedule. That was >> keep our house on the schedule. >> So, another aspect this year, uh, which they've been here the whole time, so they're familiar faces. I asked them because they've done great. They've met with me probably once a month, if not if not more than that, to kind of come up with ways to bring more school spirit um, and and kind of bring that school leadership back. So, I'm going to let them share what they've done so far this year.
>> Thanks, Chuck. Um, well, good evening everybody. I'm not sure why we're all sitting in here when it's beautiful outside and we have an extra hour of sunlight, but here we are. Um, so I would just want to start by giving a little bit of an overview of the trust. Um, the trust was established in a in April of 95. So we've been we're going on 30 we're over 30 years now. Um, I've been the trust president since, lucky me, since right at the summer of 2020, which right at the height of COVID. Um, yeah. So, that's when I took over the trust president from uh Doug Melhaney. Um, you can see our administrators that are on the trust. We have five voting administrators and we have five voting teachers. Um, so that is a balance between administrators and teachers and we have some non- voting members as well.
Um, our high school and junior high, they are coming up to their common assessments. So just to kind of give you perspective, our core four subjects, so we have English, math, science, and social studies. They all give quarterly assessments and that is for twofold reasons. One is that if we are teaching the same subject, we want to make sure that the kids are getting exposed to the same types of content. Um, and then also what you're able to do is uh align it to the state test and be able to see like is that a good caliber or predictor for how our students are going to be doing? And then something that we've been doing this year for the junior high is that we will take those teacher created math tests and that will determine if they're going into a math remediation or a math lab placement instead of another elective.