Refer to attendance information reported above.

G. Serce, Principal at MSA-San Diego thanked the teachers, parents and students for their resilient  work during the first semester.  Adding, that the fundraising and community events that took place raised money to help support students and their families as well as providing new Chromebooks for their students. G. Serce introduced M. Craig to the Board as MSA-San Diego's Dean of Academics. B. Lopez, Director of Student Services, announced that there is a free resource presentation for Mental Health Awareness that all parents are invited to participate.

A. Rubalcava, CEO & Superintendent, and J. Wade, Assistant Executive Office Manager, went over health and safety updates for Covid-19 and where Los Angeles County, Orange County and San Diego County stood in regards to Covid-19 cases. These updates also included the Safe Schools for All proposal made by the Governor, a grant provided to schools contingent if the schools meets all the funding requirements. 

D. Yilmaz, Chief Accountability Officer, presented to the Board the annual school accountability report cards for 2019-2020, which included a variety of data points such as the student achievement data and narratives that describes the schools programs. This will be publicized on California Department of Education (CDE) portal, MPS schools websites, and a notification will be sent to the parents that this is available to them for their view. 

E. Acar, Chief Academic Officer, presented to the Board the revised Participation Agreement and the Local Plan Section B from the El Dorado County Charter Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA). The SELPA works collaboratively with partner Local Education Agencies (LEA) to ensure that special education services are available to all eligible children residing within the consortium. Each partner of the Charter SELPA is required to adopt the Local Plan and the Participation Agreement for each of their respective LEAs/schools between October 2020 and February 2021.

E. Acar, Chief Academic Officer, presented the proposal for the Board to ratify the actions of the CEO to approve the College Counselor Coordinator and Teachers on Special Assignments (TOSA) position. This would greatly aid in serving the community and address Board's expectations on addressing college and career program and service needs. Additionally, it would strengthen MPS' standards-based curriculum. The Board resolution adopted on July 23, 2020, gave the CEO the authority to hire additional employees if he deemed it necessary to mitigate impacts of Covid-19, all such expenditures would be reported to the Board for ratification during the next regularly scheduled Board meeting. The Home Office budget reserve will be utilized to fund the position. 

B. Lopez, Director of Student Services, presented to the Board the revised MPS Wellness Policy. Areas that were revised dealt in regards to distance learning and how physical activity and healthy nutrition is being incorporated during remote learning. Presenting this to the Board serves as a compliancy with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) where the policy must be reviewed every three years. This policy outlines MPS’ approach to ensuring environments and opportunities for all students to practice healthy eating and physical activity behaviors throughout the school day and establishes goals. She presented the progress in reaching those goals. All MPS school sites have a Wellness Committee who create an action plan to meet the implementation of the policy. M. Rowell, Assistant Principal at MSA-Santa Ana Elementary, explained the schools processes of creating the schools action plans and goals. S. Covarrubias, MPS Board Member, serves as a CMO level member for the Wellness Committee.

A. Callaham, Director of Special Education and Support Services, presented to the Board the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Magnolia Public Schools and Inclusive Education and Community Partnerships. 

D. Hajmeirza, Director of Human Resources, presented to the Board the revised 2020-2021 Employee Handbook. The revisions come from the state of California adopting new laws expanding the right of employees to take leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) effective January 1, 2021. The proposed revision states the new legal standards, which after the Board approves, will be made available for all employees to view. MPS has already been following these new changes, but requests the Board to approve so it can be reflected on the Employee Handbook. 

U. Yapanel, MPS Vice-Chair, presented to the Board revisions made to the Board Committee Structure, specifically the Finance and Governance/Nominating Committees. These revisions came about when S. Orazov left the MPS Board to serve now as the Chief Financial Officer. He was the former Chair of the Finance Committee. The Finance Committee now consists of S. Dikbas as the Chair, H. Beliak, and M. Muhammedov (U. Yapanel serving as alternate). The Governance/Nominating Committee now consists of U. Yapanel as Chair, S. Dikbas, and S. Covarrubias (D. Gonzalez serving as an alternate).