The open meeting was adjourned to closed session at: 4:06pm

The meeting was reconvened back to open session at: 4:41PM

Announcement of actions taken:

No actions were taken in the closed session.

There were no public comment at this board meeting.

C/COL Jose Delgado Castillo gave a presentation to the Board of Directors. He began by giving a recap of March in which cadets volunteered at the Oakland Running Festival, went through the Annual General Inspection, and some cadets obtained letters of college acceptances.

Every year, OMI is evaluated during the Annual General Inspection and this year OMI scored a "superior." A "superior" note is the highest score that OMI could have gotten. 

Some of the colleges and universities that the senior cadets were accepted in so far were UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Claremont Mckenna among others. The rest of the cadets will receive notifications in April.

During the month of April, cadets and staff have been preparing for special events that are coming up. The change of command ceremony where the next cadet commander will be sworn in, will be held on April 15, 2025. That cadet will be leading the cohort of cadets in the upcoming school year. 

The Military Ball was an upcoming April event happening in Alameda and Jose invited the Board to the ball.

Current OMI cadets are being partnered with prospective candidates to be their mentor.

Dr. Streshly mentioned first that she joined a Oakland Charters Leaders Group and that group discusses ways to support charters. 

Peralta Community Colleges have been asked to exclude charters from having access to the dual enrollment courses that are being offered because OUSD is limiting access to charters. Many of the charter schools have gotten feedback from deans from Peralta that they are not allowed to work with charters. OMI is being affected and Dr. Streshly asked Governor Brown's assistance in this matter.

A Lighthouse Charter School leader sponsored a bill with a moderate Republican that explains that charters are disadvantaged because charters are kept to the same funding levels as OUSD. OUSD has an unduplicated pupil count of 82% while OMI has 92%. That is thousands of dollars per cadet that is not being brought in to the school. 

Diane Au gave a presentation for the CCI Update. Our graduation class for 2025 will push OMI from cadets being 70% prepared to 77%. OMI is the only school other than Arise Academies that has a higher CCI rate (college and career indicator). In order to be eligible to score well, the cadet has to meet one of the measures shown. 

The majority of the cadets that have reached "prepared" status did it with having A-G completion and gained additional criterions.

Joe Wire mentioned that this is good statistics that OMI could use to promote the school.

Jonathan Pike gave an overview of the recent findings for the math program. Dr. Streshly mentioned that some of the cadets need help in reading word problems and figure out what the question is asking. Governor Brown agreed with Dr. Streshly and Jonathan Pike that teaching to the test is the best way to see results right now.

OMI Staff have been giving the cadets comprehensive assessments and determining what the cadets need help on. Once that process has been completed, staff used the focused assessments tools so that the cadets can learn specifically what they are struggling with.

In addition to the math help, OMI staff will start using assessments that train cadets to build their stamina when having to read multiple texts in a testing atmosphere. The end of the year test requires cadets to read multiple texts so training them would be beneficial to them. The English department gives their cadets a benchmark test every six weeks and determine what they need to teach after so that the cadets are getting more help on what they are struggling with.

Jessika Welcome began by explaining that the forecast was updated and improved by $100,000. OMI pulled back around $85,000 in staffing compensation and benefits due to a combination of unpaid leaves, changes to hourly schedules and reductions in anticipated stipends.

Jessika explained that the end of the P2 attendance reporting was coming up and that the ADA is expected to be very close to the projected target of 456.

Jessika mentioned that the next board meeting in May 1, OMI staff will be able to have the first draft of the budget with all of the assumptions included. The May 29 board meeting will be able to see the draft that the board members will be voting on in June.

The projected operating income for the 25-26 and 26-27 years would be positive incomes if 500 student enrollment is obtained. 

She explained that she wants to start to have a metric that OMI can see what the target cash reserve is in comparison to the expenses.

CMSgt James explained that OMI last year got outstanding rating but this year, OMI got superior. The AGI affirms the leadership, logistics management and all the programs insurance safety.

Governor Brown yes

BG (CA) Cross yes

Anne Washington ?

Joseph Wire yes

Marc Mares ?

Simon Bryce yes

David Clisham ?

No board member comments were made.