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Votes and outcomes at a glance

- Consent items (items 5.01, 5.008 and addendum): motion to approve carried (voice vote recorded; no numerical tally provided in transcript). Motion by member Stevens, second by another member as read aloud in the meeting.

- Donations (item 6.01): approved. The board noted the total donations for the period were $7,050 from 31 individual donors. (Motion by member Stevens; second recorded.)

- Baxter HVAC contract (item 6.02): board approved the contract with Greiner Brothers (motion by member Stevens; second by member Graham). Vote recorded as passing 5–0.

- Food-service management RFP (item 6.03): board approved the RFP award as presented after staff described evaluation criteria and vendor qualifications; the successful proposer will administer school meal programs. Motion passed (motion and second recorded in the minutes; roll call recorded as passing 6–0).

- Summer athletic camp brochure (item 6.04): board approved the 2025 brochure, authorizing the listed camps and low‑cost/no‑cost programming as presented (motion by member Stultz; second by member Stevens). Vote passed 6–0.

- Multiple policies moved to second reading (first reading approved; votes recorded 6–0 unless noted): Policy 6320 (purchasing); Policy 75‑40.02 (web content, apps and services); Policy 82‑10 (school calendar); Policy 84‑52 (automated external defibrillators, AED); Policy 86‑15 (idling of school buses and other vehicles on school property); Policy 87‑60 (student accident insurance). In each case board members moved the item to second reading and the motion carried.

- Policy 5517.01 (bullying): the board withdrew the item from final action and asked staff to return to the next policy meeting with statutory citations, clarified administrative guidelines, and corrected policy‑number links before bringing the item back for consideration.

Several motions were handled by voice vote; where the transcript recorded a numeric tally those counts appear above. The board also accepted routine field‑trip and consent requests noted in the agenda (including an annual RHS group overnight request), and staff noted grants to RHS groups (women’s fund grants to support a girls‑wrestling program and an RHS rural trip).","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Richmond Community Schools Board of Trustees Meeting - 2025, April 23rd","oneSentenceSummary","At the April 23 meeting the board approved consent items and a set of procurement and program actions, awarded the food-service RFP, and moved several policies to second reading. The anti‑bullying policy was pulled for further review.","taxTitle","Richmond Community Schools, School Boards, Indiana","taxId",55559,"location","Indiana","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6579049,"Richmond Community Schools increases attendance tracking, expands mental-health and case-management partnerships",3162,1194000,4356000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3105073-f2bb6d52f84a565bb5e4bd3953d83ea2&start=1194&end=4356","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3105073-f2bb6d52f84a565bb5e4bd3953d83ea2/thumbnail_1194000.jpg","/articles/6579049/Indiana/Richmond-Community-Schools-increases-attendance-tracking-expands-mental-health-and-case-management-partnerships","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6579049-316274749aabc0388f8485063ee32553/orig.mp4?Expires=1770977462&Signature=ISiO2XzGQwUVoZ3wcc4-j-9LAfpy2Y9jk6OP5aqPgriKJNay9PYmMoPUjuzfUDvbYI8cPWw0zIiDMdJnOjNELgAxK7ccHF9x1m8vAfh~CbrZpp--mhcB3phCz9Dy1hgKcpgHBQXf9lEYoCx6BR~bvD9ZfLC9JYHCTeE47jpZUX9mhUsf6PEKRG-RZhD5rr09Q2Hg4XrOmcVcyOsglJkMGkqcEadkg~SMHqy7ic0aUqYBCbNJ8YysfaHm0IJB~dE9wOxDbEMej7rRmAzz1gj4z9-BgvB1khCMR8ruO5j9ri5oyKj1NR~rhRx2hPfoXRqFs6Zp~s6Ths4wDGB3SULhdg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Bridget Hazelbaker, Richmond Community Schools’ director of student support services, told the school board on April 23 that the district has tightened attendance tracking and is coordinating mental-health and other wraparound services through several community partners to reach students identified as at risk of dropping out.

Hazelbaker said the district now flags a student as a habitual truant after 10 unexcused absences and holds an attendance-intervention meeting at five unexcused absences. \"The best place for kids to be is in schools,\" she said, adding that the district is working with attendance liaisons and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office where required. Hazelbaker reported that Richmond High School had 43 students marked as habitual truants in the first-semester data she reviewed.

The board heard that Centerstone provides free, school-based mental-health therapy and case reports to the district; \"there's no cost to Richmond Community Schools for our Centerstone services,\" Hazelbaker said. She also described Meridian Health Services’ school-based health clinic at Richmond High School and said Meridian currently bills Medicaid and grant funding for its work.

The presentation outlined how the district’s monthly multi‑disciplinary meetings bring principals, site coordinators, mental‑health clinicians, attendance liaisons and other staff together to review data on grades, attendance, office referrals and child‑welfare contacts. Hazelbaker said staff look for patterns such as mobility, multiple Department of Child Services interactions, and whether students receive community services.

District staff flagged a gap with Communities In Schools (CIS), the nonprofit that provides site coordinators and case management under an MOU. Hazelbaker said the district identified 414 Richmond students with high or moderate risk attributes but that, at one point in the spring, only 54 of those students were listed as case‑managed by CIS; CIS later provided a list showing 239 students being served districtwide. Hazelbaker said some CIS site coordinator positions have been vacant and that the district increased hours for several coordinator positions (from 20 to 30 hours per week at Crestdale, Westview and Charles) to try to improve coverage.

Handle With Care, a first‑responder notification system that alerts schools when students have experienced recent potentially traumatic incidents, delivered 435 notifications to the district between September and April, Hazelbaker said. She showed that 305 students had one notification and that one student had received 15 Handle With Care notifications in the year-to-date data.

Board members asked for follow-up detail on outcomes and referrals. A member asked whether attendance data were disaggregated by grade; Hazelbaker said ten‑ and 11th‑grade students had higher concentrations of habitual truancy in the high‑school data she reviewed. Members also raised questions about enforcement: Hazelbaker said the district sends eventual-truant information to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office but that prosecution and other remedies are handled by outside agencies.

Several board members and staff discussed next steps, including giving CIS clearer lists of at‑risk students earlier in the school year, mentoring and onboarding for new CIS coordinators, and pursuing grant or outside funding to fill gaps in portable AEDs and other safety equipment mentioned later in the meeting. The presentation closed with Hazelbaker saying district attendance rates showed an uptick in most schools for the semester she reviewed, even as the district monitors students with chronic absences.

The board did not take a formal vote on new policy during this presentation; members asked staff to return to a future policy meeting with clarifications and statutory citations for the anti‑bullying policy and related administrative guidelines.","District staff reported new attendance practices, partnerships with Centerstone and Meridian for school-based mental-health and health services, and concerns about gaps in Communities In Schools case management and retention at the April 23 board meeting.","actionData","errors"]

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Votes at a glance: Richmond Community Schools board approves contracts, grants and moves multiple policies to second reading

Richmond Community Schools increases attendance tracking, expands mental-health and case-management partnerships