Board, staff and guests conducted the pledge of allegiance.

Refer to attendance information recorded above. 

M. Rowell, Elementary Principal at MSA-Santa Ana, thanked MPS community and leadership for supporting the Orange County expansion and petition that was presented the Orange County Department of Education's Board Meeting.

B. Plonka, Principal at MSA-1, congratulated the school's Woman's Soccer Team who won the CIF Division VI City Championship. 

M. Wittek, Principal at MSA-7, shared that MSA-7 was selected by Councilmember Lee to participate in his initiative and program he launched to help children write, edit, produce, and star in a movie and for it to be premiered at Cal State Northridge in May which the school was invited to attend.

S. Keskinturk, Secondary Principal at MSA-Santa Ana, shared that they extended their robotics program to parents.

G. Serce, Principal at MSA-San Diego, thanked MSA-4 for hosting the MPS Soccer Tournament and congratulated all the schools that participated. 

D. Yilmaz, Chief Accountability Officer, and A. Rubalcava, CEO & Superintendent, presented two schools who were identified as a CA Distinguished School. D. Yilmaz, explained the criteria based on the CA School Dashboard. MSA-2 and MSA-San Diego were the schools that met the criteria to be a CA Distinguished School. 

Next category of awards are for the Charter School Performance Categories based on High, Middle or Low. MSA-6, MSA-San Diego were identified as a High performing charter schools. 

This items was tabled during the approval of agenda as stated above.

M. Rowell, Elementary Principal at MSA-Santa Ana, and S. Keskinturk, Secondary Principal at MSA-Santa Ana presented their school sites Glows, Grows & Priorities for 2023-24. G. Serce, Principal at MSA-San Diego and school administration, presented his school sites Glows, Grows & Priorities for 2023-24. 

B. Olivares, Chief External Officer, presented updated enrollment numbers for all Magnolia school sites. She reported the comparison of March 3, 2023 (2023-24 school year) and March 4, 2024 (2024-25 school year) completed and total applications. She reported that some numbers have changed since the publication of the report. She also went over the 2024-25 students expected return numbers.

This was presented at the Audit & Facilities Committee Meeting. P. Ontiveros, discussed various facilities projects updates specifically for MSA-1, MSA-2, MSA-5, MSA-Santa Ana, and MSA-San Diego. Board questions were addressed by staff.

Presented at the Finance Committee Meeting. S. Budhraja, Chief Financial Officer, provided an overview of the Second Interim Report, snapshot of 2023-24 school year. He addressed the changes from the First Interim Report as well as reported that MPS have exhausted their one-time funds by the end of the 2023-24 school year. He went over each school site individually and the Home Office. Board Members questions were addressed by staff. B. Olivares, Chief External Officer, addressed a question from the Board on MSA-4's enrollment and reported that they are closely monitoring it, but overall the school has improved which will be discussed during the Enrollment Update discussion. 

R. Monoshev, Director of Technology, reported that a RFP is posted every year for E-Rate internet services which includes all internet services for the students. He discussed the planning phase which included collaboration with all IT Managers to identify the needs at their school sites. 

P. Ontiveros, General Counsel & Director of Facilities, reported that space will be given to the public for a public hearing before any Board action is taken. He reported that at the direction of staff, a consultant prepared  the Initial Study and Negative Declaration. Staff further filed a notice regarding its intent to adopt the Initial Study and Negative Declaration with the California Office of Planning and Research's CEQA net database which has been published and available to anyone interested to review the report. A notice was also filed with the Los Angeles County Clerk and in a newspaper of general circulation serving the site of the MSA-5 project. No comments was received since it's publication on February 12, 2024. A. Rubalcava, CEO & Superintendent, reported that the Board did request to have more time to review the publication before they can approve. Public hearing was opened. No public comments were made.

P. Ontiveros, General Counsel & Director of Facilities, reported that EPI Construction has been moving this project steadily and a point was reached where MSA-1 leadership wanted to add additional items. After discussions with the General Contractor they were asked to price out the budget impact. He went over the potential change order. This will be paid from MSA-1's budget. 

This items was tabled during the approval of agenda stated above.