G. Olechowski introduced herself as a UC Berkeley Graduate student and thanked the Board for what they are doing at OMI.

M. Streshly mentioned that she has been giving the Board updates on the LCAP goals in tidbits (attendance and grade level data) in the past couple of months and that will continue with the RenStar results discussion in this board meeting.

M. Streshly clarified that she would like to get direction from the Board regarding the return of in person meetings and potential hybrid meeting discussions.

M. Streshly asked if we wanted to comply solely with returning to in person meetings or give the possibility of having participants attend virtually while also providing in person opportunities. 

If OMI has in person-hybrid board meetings, Staff will have to look into spending for the necessary equipment. The equipment that the staff would need includes microphones, television monitors and potentially mix amps to conduct hybrid meetings and this would not cost over $10,000 at the time because OMI has some of the equipment available.

D. Baldwin asked if we had the option to go back to 100% in person board meetings and the answer M. Streshly gave was yes.

C. Rodriguez clarified that there will be a handheld recorder for access to accurate minute taking.

J. Breckenridge asked that the OMI staff and Board consider doing a hybrid test as well for the most inclusion. She also mentioned that OMI should survey the parents to see if they would like to have hybrid meetings.

V. Salazar mentioned that the increase in the February 2023 disbursements was due to the adoption of the physical and digital Savvas English and Math curriculum. In March, the disbursements would go back to normal. In June, the disbursements are expected to rise because of the end of the fiscal year expenditures including insurance payments.

The cashflow indicated that there was a steady projection from February to March and spike in April and May, then dip due to a waiting period until funds comes in.

The dips and spikes would not affect the cash reserve as it is highly above the $1.5 million line. 

J. Breckenridge asked if there was anything to the cashflow that was different from the past months' presentations and V. Salazar mentioned that the cashflow has been consistent and steady.

S. Lipsey and C. Murphy presented the longitudinal data that was collected from English and Math RenStar results for both middle and high school.

C. Murphy gave a breakdown of what the colors meant in the upcoming slides. She mentioned that the colors indicated the percentage of students, per grade, in certain categories like at/above benchmark, on watch, intervention, and urgent intervention needed. 

The percentage of benchmark distribution shifted from the 2021-2022 year to 2022-2023 year in multiple areas. C. Murphy explained that the first two columns (red and yellow) need to go down, the blue and green columns need to go up to indicate growth.

J. Breckenridge included that she would like to see what the progress was in the English because she saw improvement in the math. She mentioned that she would like to know what the impact of English being a majority of the school population's second language affects the results.  C. Murphy said that she would have information in the coming week.

C. Murphy clarified to J. Breckenridge that the singular red percentage of benchmark distribution in 2020-2021 means that there is no data to be collected.

M. Mares explained that he would like to see the changes in benchmark distribution percentage of students that were in the middle school in prior years as well as in the high school to see the OMI teaching effects on the students.

D. Baldwin asked how often these tests are administered. These tests are administered three times a year.

O. Isibor explained that he and other talented staff have found explored ways to try and drive up recruitment.

A comparison of February 2023 and February 2022 was displayed to show that the efforts of the new recruitment team has shown to be effective, increasing by 45%.

O. Isibor mentioned that he surveyed families that attend OMI and they reported back that the way that they found out about OMI was through word of mouth.

The traditional marketing that the new recruitment team used was sending out flyers and postcards.

Five mailers went out. The first mailer was to give awareness of what OMI is, second was to inform the public of the OMI Family Night *A Community Event*, and the third mailer was to show the OMI advantage with a message from J. Brown.

Digital advertisements were used as well on websites for people that have a history of looking for schools. Billboards were also used on the Bay Bridge freeway to gather more impressions.

M. Mares mentioned that 60% of the school population is Latino and the Latino community needs to be advertised to. He also gave a suggestion of making bumper stickers for parents to put on their car for mobile advertising.

The OMI board adjourned to closed session at 5:30pm.

The OMI Board reconvened to open session at 6:08pm.

No action was taken during closed session.