Board, staff and guests conducted the pledge of allegiance.

Refer to attendance information recorded above. 

U. Yapanel joined from 275 Saratoga Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050. S.Dikbas, joined from MSA-San Diego located at 6525 Estrella Ave, San Diego, CA 92120.

Benjamin Juarez, Community School Coordinator at MSA-Santa Ana, expressed his excitement for the Community School Movement and to bring this knowledge back to the community as he attends a Conference in Philadelphia.

J.Lara, Executive Assistant & Board Secretary, announced that the Board will be going into closed session to discuss Public Employee Performance Evaluation for the CEO & Superintendent & Employee Discipline/Dismissal/Release and that they would report out any actions that may be taken.

This item was discussed in Closed Session.

This item was discussed in Closed Session.

M.Muhammedov announced in Open Session at 9:26pm that the Board discussed the performance evaluation for the CEO & Superintendent and directed staff to take further action. Board also discussed the employee discipline/dismissal/release and had directed staff to take necessary action. 

J.Hernandez, Director of Student Services, thanked all student board member candidates. Board also thanked the students and after deliberation the Board chose Melissa De La Rosa from MSA-5 as the newly elected Student Board Member for 2023-24.

Get more feedback from community members from school's LCAP. They have shared the draft LCAP to commmunity also posted on the website. Principals will present at the next meeting. Community members were given space to make comments or questions. Principals will be presenting at the next board meeting. Parent Advisory Council is are held 8x a year (students parents and staff). Every school has one. 

S.Budhraja, Chief Financial Officer, presented information about budgets and multi year projections for 2024-25 and 2025-26 fiscal year. Data came from the state and the Governor's May Revise. He went over revenues including the ending fund balance for all school sites and the Home Office. Enrollment projections were also reviewed and he discussed the challenges of enrollment to ADA. He explained that before the pandemic, enrollment to ADA was roughly 96%. Since coming back from the pandemic, enrollment to ADA dropped to 92-93%. ERC funding was broken down per school site. SB740 revenues was not included until it is received and MPS receives an award letter. A.Rubalcava, CEO & Superintendent, added the new positions that will be added through the awarding of grants received. Board Members questions were addressed by staff. 

B.Lopez, Chief External Officer, presented the enrollment recruitment and retention action plans and information on the ongoing process in enrollment strategies. She went over the current status of enrollment to date, which in collaboration with the Accountability Department, is updated every week from SchoolMint and Infinite Campus data. There was an increase from the previous school year enrollment from 667 completed registrations to 880 completed registrations. She added that her department meets monthly with the school sites PACE coordinators to discuss strategies for over the summer to continue those communications with parents and to review enrollment both at their school sites and how enrollment looks line in surrounding schools. She touched on the digital marketing work that has been done in collaboration with Larson. Larson representatives spoke on how they connected over 1,000 families with an MPS school campus. Every campus has its own campaign landing pages in various platforms. Board Members questions were addressed by staff. 

M.Sahin, Facilities Project Manager, spoke on the need to approve an ADA 504 transition plan for MSA-7 in response to a request from LAUSD. MPS had previously commissioned a self evaluation and transition plan for MSA-7 which was Board approved back on October 2018. Staff determined that following this request, it would update the report in collaboration with CALI CASp who previously prepared the 2018 report. He added that the plan is a living document that will be updated when needed. The report allows MPS to understand the accessibility challenges at MSA-7 and to make such changes necessary to mitigate issues regarding accessibility compliance. Board members questions were addressed by staff. 

S.Acar, Chief Operations Officer, summarized what S.Budhraja, Chief Financial Officer, presented during the budget presentation and highlighted that MSA-3, Santa Ana & San Diego still required further cost reductions.

Board Members were provided information and background during Closed Session and requested staff to go back and look into other options with a possibility of a severance package for these staff members. A.Rubalcava, CEO & Superintendent, added that they will look into next steps and look at the schools fiscal stabilization plan and bring further information to the Board at the next June 22nd. Regular Board Meeting. The Board will table the item for this meeting.

W.Gray, Director of Educational Services, presented added language to the independent study program. The additions made was that assignments would now need to be submitted in five (5) days of the due date. It previously stated that the assignments were to be submitted when a student returns. If a student is on independent study for more than five (5) days MPS would want to get that work collected and mark their attendance correctly. Additional language was added to clarify a plan for the work and how it is going to be graded.

W.Gray, Director of Educational Services, explained that last year with Board approval MPS was able to enact the college application fee policy to support students to apply to college especially those who do not qualify for fee waivers, but do not have the funds to apply for college. Those who qualified for fee waivers fall under Free or Reduced Lunch. Last year the policy that was approved stated that students were able to apply to three (3) California State Universities (CSU) and University of California (UC) campuses. The program was successful in which MPS was able to pay for sixty (60) applications. Staff is requested to increase it to five (5) applications and it will not restrict it to just the CSU and UC school systems. College counselors proposed this and this work was in collaboration with the Finance & Academic Department. He noted that MPS can use the school credit card to pay right away instead of waiting for reimbursements to further support students and families. Board Members questions were addressed.