No public comment was given at the board meeting.

C/MAJ Jose Delgado Castillo introduced his Liaison Officer, Jayson Ly, who would be briefing the Board of Directors at this meeting.

Jayson explained that he will be interacting with both the adult and cadet leaders so that the teams can work seamlessly together. CSU Maritime was the location of the first Entrance Camp for the upcoming school year and OMI managed to cultivate a high percentage of the candidates into OMI cadets. Eight candidates that could not attend the entrance camp during July 8-13 will have had to complete their candidacy in August.

Jayson mentioned that the beginning of the year went smoother than previous years pertaining to schedule issues and says he was glad that the military staff have mostly stayed the same. The military staff built strong relationships and those are important to the cadets. 

Jayson said that he has seen that the cadets seem to be really excited to be at OMI this year and he is looking forward to see what the year holds.

Dr. Streshly wanted to formally introduce LTC Jonathan Pike, Director of Teaching and Learning. Jonathan had a last minute training so could not attend physically, but was available through Zoom.

Jonathan Pike gave a bit of background to himself and explained that he will be able to retire from active military duty in October, so he will be able to give OMI his full attention incredibly soon. He explained that the main focuses would be mathematics, English and ELD. Governor Brown asked for Jonathan to set practical goals so that OMI can try to increase the math scores. Bringing up the math and English scores would help OMI bring in more students.

The organizational chart was displayed for the Board of Directors so they could see where people fit in what department. Dr. Streshly explained that the academic affairs department is entirely run by teaching staff. They need the support that OMI can give them and a direct path of communication.

Last year, 96 cadets were reported to have earned dual enrollment credit, cadets that reclassified went up by 20%, and the amount of graduates with UC/CSU requirements met had increased.

OMI changed the graduation requirement language so that the cadets need to have a C or better to receive the A-G credit.

The governance calendar has become a living document in order to accommodate the fiscal requirements from OUSD as well as allow for the Board of Directors to suggest data or reports that they would like to see on the agendas. Some of the material in the governance calendar is there for the Board of Directors to see what certain departments are doing but will not necessarily make it to the agendas.

OMI staff will be adding the governance calendar to the board of directors' binders. 

Marc Mares asked about the recruitment fairs that were placed in the March section of the governance calendar and asked what type of fairs OMI staff has gone to. Dr. Streshly and Kathryn Wong explained that they went to St. Mary's recruitment fair as well as others like at Sonoma State and Cal State East Bay. Recruitment fairs happen usually twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring.

Tim Murray gave a briefing on the summer school outcomes. He explained that OMI had 74 high school cadets attend summer school and ended up with 156 completed courses. There was a smaller group for middle school at 35 cadets. 12 cadets stayed for a longer duration of time throughout the day because they would get to have elective time and enrichment activities during the latter half of the day.

Tim explained that the budget was carefully examined for summer school regarding lunches.

The K-6 grant was being used to help with computer science electives and enrichment activities in an expended summer program (9 hours per day for 30 days).

Edgenuity and Khan Academy was being used during the summer school session to help the cadets that were credit deficient because of the pandemic or failed classes.

Marc Mares asked for OMI to consider having a section of summer school be for the cadets that want to get ahead of where they currently were. OMI staff confirmed that they could make that happen and have been starting to do that during the regular school day.

MSG Michael Traver gave a brief of candidate entrance camps and let the Board of Directors know that it was a very successful camp with 128 of 142 candidates reaching completion. OMI expected 192 candidates to participate and 142 candidates arrived. 

The total cost of the camp this year was $112,000 but that was cheaper than the usual camps stationed at Camp San Luis Obispo.

The most important aspects of the camps were given by MSG Traver as creating culture and rigor while setting expectations and allowing the cadet leadership mentors to take charge.

MSG Traver quickly mentioned that the first week of school was going well and that the older cadets were helping out the new cadets.

MSG Traver explained that the experience was great because OMI got to expose cadets and the candidates to dorm life and what it was like to be on a college campus. The proximity of all the buildings necessary for the camp was crucial in eliminating time not used for walking and more time used for students in the classroom.

Jacque Eischens explained that every year during June, financiers give their expectation of the funds that the school is going to receive and in August or September, they let the board of directors know what the school actually received. All of the funds for the Education Protection was used on Certificated Salaries.

This was displayed as the first reading for the athlete handbook so that OMI could flush out items like Title IX, absences and academic integrity just to name a few. 

Jonathan Pike will be the athletic director and will be facilitating athletics. Physicals need to be supported so that there is a possibility that they could be free or reduced pricing for cadets to get examined in order to play.

Marc Mares explained that during the pre-covid time, he as the track coach would use a doctor in Fruitvale for $25 and would help getting in contact with them for OMI. Marc Mares also pointed out that OMI needed to add summer school to the language because it is not in the handbook at the time of the meeting.

This handbook is being used to have a standardized practices and set of steps for physicals and sports related activities. 

Governor Brown asked if EdTec could introduce themselves and they did.

Bryce Fleming and Jessika Welcome attended the board meeting and will be taking over the financial reporting. Jessika went over the process of the transition from SchoolAbility to EdTec, which started with payroll. Jessika explained that she has been starting to meet with OMI administrators Dr. Streshly and CMSgt James on a weekly basis to get a flow going for information exchange.