N. Huynh joined at 6:56 pm and participated in all action items. S. Orazov joined in person at 6:39 pm, he participated in all action items and discussion items.

The Flag was lead by Chief Operations Officer, K. Hourigan. 

There were no public comments.

There were no oral communications. 

Item was approved under consent agenda.

The item was approved in consent agenda.

This item was approved under consent agenda.

This item was approved under consent agenda.

This item was approved under consent agenda.

K. Hourigan, Chief Operations Officer, went over the enrollment numbers that were based on census dates. C. Young, Chief Executive Officer, went over the percentage of students that fell under the following categories; free and reduced lunch, homeless, and special education. She explained the processes that are currently in place that guarantee that students are receiving  the services needed. Staff from MSA SD and MSA 2 explained the reasoning behind the enrollment number decrease at their schools and the actions that were going to be taken to address this drop.  Board members asked if MPS was over or underestimating enrollment numbers. A. Rubalcava, Chief External Officer, explained how the projected enrollment numbers are estimated and how home office staff takes part in those numbers. All questions were addressed. 

K. Jackson, Chief Academic Officer, explained how the data presented shows what percentage of our students are college ready. She explained how the  Academic Team connects with school staff through weekly newsletters. She explained that the academic report being presented to the Board was previously presented to the Academic Committee at an early committee meeting of the same. The Academic Committee members reported out to the board what was discussed at the committee meeting and what their suggestions are for the academic team. All questions were addressed.

Chief Financial Officer, O. Diaz, explained that financials were presented to the Finance Committee before it was presented to the full Board. He went over the changes that took place between the August and the September financials. He went over the trainings that have taken place to insure that  there is full compliance of policies and procedures and he explained how MPS has worked with Edtec to improve financial processes. Aubrey, Client Manager and Peter from Edtec, gave an update on the elimination of debit cards. She explained the next steps to be worked on to improve the AP items, Emergency Check Requests have decreased, MERF will be the only place where invoices will be receive to stream line the process. She went over MSA SC loss and how the loans will be transferred and handled, Paid Time Out costs. Intra company loans- no new loans, the loan that was already approved. Three schools are expecting net losses but this will change after the November board meeting. It is an accounting deficit  but not the cash flow deficit. CY explained the accounting adjustments. There will be no cash deficit at the end of the year but it will show that we used reserve money to pay. N. Unterburger, Board and Finance Committee member, explained what the Finance Committee requested of the finance department and explained that the financials were discussed at length during the committee. N. Unterburger explained the improvements that have taken place such as with the change in 12 year contracts for staff. 

T. Boatman, Chief of Human Resources, explained this item was not reviewed by the Personnel Committee. She explained the recruiting processes for talent acquisition and talent pipe line. She explained the openings. Creation of total compensation reports, it is not only about salary but also retirement and health benefits. T. Boatman will break down the data by schools. She went over the retention data, involuntary turn over in a competitive market. We can run these reports in the system. Board wants to see the data by subject. Will present the data to the personnel committee. Committee wants data by dept, how many hires by subject. T. Boatman will run a sample report and send it to the personal committee. PTO - paid time out. Evaluation process. K jackson and D. Yilmaz explained the evaluation process for star including teachers surveys. This evaluations is used for feedback and improvement not only evaluations. D. Yilmaz explained what are the upcoming tasks and how they will be implemented. Get evaluation ready before the budget is discussed. Teach boost was explained. G. Serce provided feedback from evaluations process, how it is used and how it was worked so far. J. Hernandez, provided feedback on self reflection. L. Ross, provided feedback on the coaching piece. 

A. Rubalcava explained why Ratliff made this resolution. He explained why it would be difficult to implement the resolution. We would have to translate LCAPs. Cost implementations with sending hard copies to parents and translations fees. He addressed all board member questions. 

A. Rubalcava, explained what we have been doing in terms of communication. LAUSD recommendation of non renewal. how we have communicate with our staff and parents. What are the next steps. A. Rubalcava explained why Ratliff made this resolution. He explained why it would be difficult to implement the resolution. We would have to translate LCAPs. Cost implementations with sending hard copies to parents and translations fees. He addressed all board member questions. 

The CEO Evaluation and Contract was postponed until the next meeting of the Board. 

The Board went into Closed Session to discuss the anticipated litigation, no actions were taken. 

This item was removed from the agenda. 

The Board went into Closed Session to Discuss the CEO Evaluation, no actions were taken.