No public comment was given at this board meeting.

Cadet Captain Jennifer Tran gave a brief presentation of the past events that OMI has had as well as upcoming events that OMI cadets are anticipating.  

OMI had successful events at the school level and the state level. The state level events included extreme team challenges and the Recondo where cadets could interact with other state cadets and earn awards.

The past week had a successful Winter Showcase where OMI hosted all the families of prospective families and families of the performers for the night. OMI had countless interactions with the prospective families and even had families sign up for additional tours.

In October, OMI had the PSAT and SAT tests for the cadets that were trying to get ready for their college decisions. 10 OMI cadets scored higher than the national average in the SAT and 11 cadets scored better than the national average on the PSAT.

Jennifer mentioned that there was feedback about the SAT from the Cadet Leadership group. She mentioned that taking the SAT should not be mandated for all cadets because some of the cadets do not want to take the test. In turn, she believes that the PSAT should be mandatory so that the cadets can experience what the real test will feel like and they could choose if they want to take it.

The Cadet Leadership conducted a classroom climate survey in which they asked what the cadets' favorite class was and the like.

Next semester, OMI has events slated to boost cadet morale including the Golden Paw Initiative. This will allow the teachers to recognize as many cadets that they want to get this award. 

Joseph Wire asked how the Superintendent and the Cadet Leadership group were handling communication between each other. Dr. Streshly explained that the Commandant and the Superintendent have a luncheon with the Cadet Leadership and plan out events and discuss issues.

Educators and staff were recognized for their efforts in the years that they have worked at OMI. These staff members were called up one by one to get their certificate, words from the Superintendent and a photo taken with the Board Chairman, Honorable Edmund G. Brown.

The following staff were recognized by the OMI Superintendent, the Commandant, and Governor Brown.

Joseph Musongong

Ismael Robles

Rachel Mahlke

Valmiria Amaya

Alvaro Hernandez

Gabrielle Harmon

Cherina Medina

Kathryn Wong

A time was given to the Board of Directors, honorees, and their families to have a chance to congratulate the staff members after they were given their awards. 

OMI staff monitor the cashflow monthly for any changes of significance.

In October and November, unexpected funds were acquired making the actuals more than the expenses in these months. 

Marc Mares asked about the million dollars that was put in a CD account. He wanted to know what the plan was when the CD term expired. He suggested that the OMI staff look into finding high yielding savings accounts to put that money in so that the money is not tied down but also gaining money. Jacque Eischens suggested that the OMI staff, herself, and some of the board members with financial backgrounds to have a meeting.

The Board of Directors previously asked Jacque to give them a visual representation of the cashflow for a couple of years in the future based on projections. She gave them a slide that included up to June 2025. The spikes would be for the times that funding would be given to the school. Governor Brown mentioned that the school would be able to maintain the $2.5 million over the next coming years.

Odua Isibor and Emily Matthews gave the Board Directors a breakdown of the student recruitment campaign.

The mission of the campaign that Emily and Odua are spearheading is to track the interactions that the school is having based on advertisements and events that are being made to spread the college advantage aspect of the school.

Paid media like flyers, bard advertisements have helped in capturing peoples' attention and redirected them to OMI websites like oakmil.org and oakmiltour.org.

The campaign program designed their mailers and other flyers based on the feedback and visual recommendations of the people that engaged with these communication forms. 

The BART advertisements are not only in the stations but in the trains so the reach for the advertisements is vast. The advertisements have a QR code that allows the consumer to reach our websites and hopefully be compelled enough to access Oakland Enrolls and apply for the school.

Odua and Emily have been tracking the amount of unique visitors access the oakmiltour.org website from the QR Code on the various advertisements and have had 2,100 unique page visits as of the December 14, 2023 board meeting. The website connected to the advertisements prompts the visitor to give OMI their information to pursue relationships with those families.

The medium that was chosen to be used was Facebook because feedback from cadets and families say that the most common application that parents used to get their daily information was Facebook.

Cadets will be used in the recruitment events and the cadets will be able to gain community service hours and valuable communication skills.

Marc Mares explained his opinion that he thinks the recruitment process should include parent spokepersons.