Please refer to attendance information recorded above. 

No public comments were made. 

A. Rubalcava, MPS CEO & Superintendent, gave the board an update on virtual graduations for MPS school sites, plans for reopening and stakeholder communications. E. Acar, MPS Chief Academic Officer, elaborated on the reopening plan and how the task force has been working on the needs and regulations. Board questions were addressed.

H. Beliak, MPS Board Chair announced the board would be going into Closed Session to discuss the public employment of the CEO & Superintendent and two potential litigation matters and would report out any actions taken.

This item was discussed in Closed Session.

These items were discussed in Closed Session.

H. Beliak, MPS Board Chair, announced that staff directed to follow up on the items discussed in Closed Session, no actions were taken. 

A. Rubalcava, MPS CEO & Superintendent, explained that due to the pandemic closures, operational changes, and changes in deadlines, MPS decided to not move forward with the merger during the 2020-21 year but plans to do so in the following fiscal year. 

B. Torres, MPS Board Secretary, went over the changes in committee meeting schedules and locations. H. Beliak, MPS Board Chair, stated that he would like staff to reach out to legislatures to speak about meeting in the different locations that MPS serves as was done in previous practice, A. Rubalcava, MPS CEO & Superintendent will follow up on this request. All questions were addressed. 

The board discussed moving the approval of this motion to June during the annual board meeting or amending the motion to approve only one change. There were two motions voted on as follows.

Action on this item was postponed to a future meeting. 

D. Yilmaz, MPS Chief Accountability Officer, went over the local indicators that apply to charter schools and how MPS Principals use the self-reflection tools to report out their evaluation of the progress the school makes towards meeting the local indicators in the five state priorities. A couple of MPS Principals went over the data specific to their sites and addressed the board's questions. 

E. Acar, Chief Academic Officer, provided a verbal academic update and addressed all questions regarding distance learning, graduations and reopening plans. 

K. Mann, ELA and EL Program Coordinator went over the schools that use the program and what online services are provided for students. This was and information item, no action was required.

I. Soto, Director of Development and Communications, went over target enrollment numbers and current enrollment numbers. He also added information regarding recruitment efforts and proactive measures taken by the school sites to increase student enrollment during 2020-21. This was an information item no actions were taken. 

P. Ontiveros, General Counsel and Director of Facilities gave updates on all ongoing facility projects for all MSA sites and went over the pending projects.