M. Michalowski praised the Hands-On Technology After School Program for their advocacy of students learning how to touch type. She said that she had a slight problem with the verbiage accompanying certain graphs in the HOTE presentation. 

M. Streshly started by acknowledging and praising the members of the OMI staff and Dr. Sun for helping with the WASC report and process. C. Murphy took a passionate approach and rallied all of the teachers to show their best during the WASC visit.

She mentioned that the WASC committee gave high praise orally, received positive feedback from parents and students, and enjoyed activities like watching formation. The WASC committee added two more goals to the action plan which included extending college and career opportunities and activities to the middle school. The other goal was about better communication between OMI and parents.

For the middle school power up, some of the main points have to do with allowing the middle school to have its own identity.

The bell schedule is going to be changing to a traditional bell schedule to pick up the pace of instruction. Another update to the middle school will be to support the math instruction as much as possible. Parents have also asked for sports and intramural activities.

OMI communication is distributed with newsletters and Grizzly Nights that are going to be middle school-centric for the next meeting.

V. Salazar explained that there was no significant changes in the funding and the funding will remain consistent until the end of May, going up in June.

The current ADA funding was based on the prior year's ADA. Next year's funding would be decided based on this year's ADA.

The cashflow was still above $2 million even with a dip in October. The funding will get larger in January again. 

V. Salazar agreed with J. Breckenridge about her point that there is going to be a tightening of budgets because there will no longer be one time funding anymore.  OMI will only spend one time funding on temporary positions. 

CharterSmart is the advisor company for the marketing campaign that OMI is embarking upon and that company will be in collaboration with OMI for six months.

A flyer will be produced by the end of November that will be distributed to local schools, civic leaders, religious leaders in the OMI immediate community and surrounding K-5 charter schools. Changes to the website will be occurring in the coming weeks to modernize the interface.

Oakland Enrolls will be used to track the applications of the families that would be interested in joining OMI. 

J. Brown asked if there will be immediate communication with interested families. T. James explained that he has a team that is dealing with recruitment and will engage with the families as soon as possible. 

T. James explained that the matter of engagement, accessibility and the competitiveness is going to drive to constantly improve the effort to engage families and recruit. 

The amount of recruited students/cadets will impact the way that the school is funded for the upcoming school years.

M. Mares chimed in to say that he thought that the best recruiting comes as a result of the cadets being in uniform out in the community giving back and marching with pride. He suggested that OMI ramps up the volunteering in the immediate community so the cadets can be seen giving back.

J. Mancenido explained what HOTE stood for and how this after school program utilizes STEM to engage the students. HOTE also helped students get ahead with their homework when they needed the extra support academically.

J. Mancenido explained that she went to all of the teachers for the students in the after school program and asked for access to the Google Classrooms and Aeries to further help those students that needed that extra push to finish assignments.

J. Mancenido showed some of the activities that they offered to students during the semester including robotics, basic circuits, and breadboard circuits. HOTE invited guest speakers to help them understand financial literacy.

HOTE helped OMI with the credit recovery program and provided two tutors to help students in a one to one or small group capacity.

D. Baldwin asked if there could be a presentation of the students that participated in the credit recovery program and what students are in the HOTE program to see the total percentage using that resource.

T. James mentioned that there is hardware that is being used and it is at the end of its life so he is trying to find solutions that could help modernize the efforts put towards the backend of the Wi-Fi systems. 

T. James explained that OMI would be using a program called E-rate that would provide discounts for the materials needed to update the network switches. 

The Firewall is also nearing its end of life so there needs to be an update and was responsible for the discrepancy to Wi-Fi strength throughout the school. 

Read 180 would be distributed through desktops and the desktops would be placed strategically throughout the school to maximize accessibility.

Due to the phone systems not receiving updates anymore and being more than a decade old, there needs to be an upgrade.

One to one Chromebook distribution to students is needed so there were two options to potentially choose from. The anticipation of repairs had been assessed and the cheaper Chromebook of the two would be preferred due to repairs being closer to the initial price of the computer.

M. Streshly recommneded to the OMI Board that the Military Science satisfies the PE requirements and that would align OMI with other schools that offer JROTC, marching band and drill teams.

M. Streshly praised that the OMI Board decided to increase the science requirements to the current 30 units but she recommended that the science unit requirement be made to 20 because OMI needs to develop the science pathways. 

This was the first reading so that the graduation requirements could be voted on in December's board meeting. 

In the elective category, M. Streshly and OMI want the students to join the dual enrollment so that they have a flexibility to have other electives like language.

There were alternative graduation requirements if students are foster youth or experienced homelessness during their high school years. 

J. Brown mentioned that OMI has to get the exact definition of the term homelessness as it pertains to this modified graduation requirements.

J. Breckenridge complimented the staff for their efforts in the Pass in Review. She also mentioned that there was a great turn out for the event. She mentioned that there are new colors for OMI and that the design was made by a former student/graduate.

 M. Mares agreed with J. Breckenridge's assessments of the Pass in Review event.