No public comments were given at this board meeting.

The Instructional initiatives update was deferred by the OMI superintendent for the upcoming board meeting in December. 

She introduced Alicia Magallanes, a new staff member that will be helping with math coaching. Since we lost the coach for the math component of the contract with CORE, OMI hired Alicia so she can help with the coaching as she is more accessible being local. At the time of this meeting, her main goal was to push into classrooms and get the necessary information she needed to start assisting in the classroom.

The goal that Alicia and OMI have is to make the instructional time that teachers have with their cadets stronger and more sustainable. OMI staff assess the situation in the classroom and respond accordingly so that every cadet has the ability to learn properly.

The dual enrollment agreement was discussed during the Superintendent Update.

Jacque Eischens explained that there was nothing unusual or outstanding in the cashflow and that OMI was headed along a good path.

The Williams Act report was given by Shann Chu, Director of Teaching and Learning for OMI.

Shann Chu explained that OMI needs to ensure that three things are exemplary per the Williams Act settlement. Those three things are board approved adopted materials, safe facilities and qualified teachers.

OMI passed the Williams Act inspection with exemplary notes. 

This agreement was approved by the Board of Directors before but OMI Staff realized that OMI and Merritt College did not have an active agreement. An agreement was drafted and was presented to the Board of Directors. OMI took this opportunity to make the agreement more robust and plan out pathways for cadets.

OMI would use the IGETC pathway to identify cadets early and put them on a pathway to maximize their ability to complete classes at the community college level. This would help the cadets have more college transferable credits going in to their college experience. 

OMI Board of Directors will revisit a staff recommendation in the spring to make at least one dual enrollment class a part of the graduation requirements so that the cadets are ahead.

Joseph Wire asked what grade cadets typically start in the OMI dual enrollment program and Tim Murray said that cadets start in the program at ninth grade. Classes are scaffolded to accommodate the level at which cadets are since they are high school students taking college courses.

Having cadets in dual enrollment classes allows for the cadets to see that they can pass a college level class and that will push them towards the idea that they want to go to college and succeed.

These projections were done earlier in the month for the November 16, 2023 meeting but due to its cancelation, OMI presented this information in this meeting on November 30, 2023.

Based on guidance, the 2024-2025 COLA was assigned as 1% and to project conservative numbers for enrollment. 

Jerry Brown asked what the current enrollment for the school was and OMI staff answered with 508 due to a myriad of reasons like students moving out of state.

The beginning fund balance this year is $12 million and next year's beginning fund balance would be reduced by the deficit that is being spent in the previous year. These were conservative numbers as Dr. Streshly and Jacque have added a lot of potential expenses into consideration when exploring for the COLA increase.

The Board of Directors started their closed session at 5:36 pm and came back to open session at 5:56 pm.

No action was taken in the closed session.