Refer to attendance information recorded above.

No public comments were given at this time.

A.Rubalcava, CEO & Superintendent, will share his announcement during B.Lopez's, Chief External Officer, presentation during the Enrollment Update.

S.Covarrubias announced that the Board would be going into Closed Session to discuss public employee performance evaluation for the CEO & Superintendent and pending litigation concerning one case and would report out any actions taken.

This item was discussed in Closed Session.

This item was discussed in Closed Session.

S.Covarrubias announced in Open Session at 6:43pm that the Board directed staff to follow-up on items regarding the CEO Evaluation. Regarding the pending litigation the Board authorized the staff to settle the matter - a settlement agreement will be finalized. 

B.Lopez, Chief External Officer, announced the involvement of 12 MPS families on a trip to Washington DC for advocacy day in partnership with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Also, MSA-1 through MSA-8 and MSA-Santa Ana had applied for the California Community Schools Planning Grant and they were all selected and awarded $200,000 to each school. She said the money will help the schools, students and families tremendously. She went over the current enrollment and how MPS is doing now to be on track for target enrollment for the 2022-23 incoming school year. She explained the enrollment process and what the school staff are doing at their campuses. Some Principals also shared their enrollment processes, practices and expectations. Board Members thanked the staff for the update and for the awarded grant announcement. 

Presented previously at the MPS Audit/Faculties Committee for their recommended approval. M.Muhammedov, Chair of the Committee reported out and added that the Committee did approve for their recommended approval to the full Board. P.Ontiveros, General Counsel & Director of Facilities, added that they will be releasing $25,000 and that money is applicable to the purchase price expecting that they close escrow. They have a term sheet from the lender and added that next steps was to discuss with the Los Angeles County Office of Education to get their approval to move forward. 

Presented previously at the MPS Audit/Faculties Committee for their recommended approval. M.Muhammedov, Chair of the Committee reported out. He had said that this has been a reoccurring discussion item for the Committee and provided background of the information so far. P.Ontiveros, General Counsel & Director of Facilities, added that the $1.266 million is an increase from the previous amount discussed. They had done an appraisal.

Presented previously at the MPS Audit/Faculties Committee for their recommended approval. M.Muhammedov, Chair of the Committee reported out. P.Ontiveros, General Counsel & Director of Facilities, addressed questions the Committee had previously asked. Board Members questions were addressed by staff. 

D.Yilmaz, Chief Accountability Officer, presented the school calendars for the next school year. The calendars adheres to the requirement of instructional minutes and instructional dates. Historically MPS has always offered 180 or 181 days, but for the first time in history they offered 185 school days due to the effects of learning loss from the pandemic and addressing loss of instruction. He went over the calendar for each MSA school. MSA-6 is different than the rest so they are able to establish their school culture. 

E.Acar, Chief Academic Officer, & W.Gray, College & Career Readiness Program and Teachers on Special Assignment Coordinator presented the college application fee policy. W.Gray went over the policy and what it was designed to address. He explained that each University has a college application fee and for students that receive free or reduced lunch, that fee is waived. However, the threshold to apply for free or reduced lunch is low so many families do not qualify therefore they cannot get the fee waived. In many cases families do not have the bandwidth to release that capital. The Policy is designed to reimburse families for up to 3 application instances. They restricted it to applications to UC & CSU because they are transparent on who qualifies for waivers in which privates do not. Board Members questions were addressed by staff. 

MPS Board of Directors discussed and reconsidered the circumstances of the State of Emergency related to COVID-19 in which meeting in person can directly impact the ability of the Board in addition to the all standing Board Committees (Finance, Audit/Facilities, Academic, Stakeholder and Development & Nominating/Governance Committees) and public to meet safely. As such, local officials are still continuing to recommend measures to promote social distancing. Board Members questions were addressed by staff.

D.Hajmeirza, Director of Human Resources, presented the updated Health and Safety Policy and IIPP Addendum which reflects recent guidelines from CDC, CDPH and other county public health officials. Changes include close contacts, quarantine procedures for employees, and students vaccination statuses.