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Harrisburg board unanimously approves community health worker position and strategic-plan tweak, renews lunch-sharing agreements
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Summary
The board voted 5-0 to add one community health worker funded from special education, adopted a 'fiscal stewardship and sustainability' pillar, and renewed shared-lunch agreements with neighboring districts; the board also moved into executive session citing personnel and negotiations statutes.
At its meeting, the Harrisburg School District 41-2 board took several unanimous actions on personnel and policy.
The board approved creation of a single community health worker position to be funded from special education dollars. In discussion, board members said school social workers are "stretched incredibly thin" and that the new role would be directed by social workers to connect families with services and complete administrative tasks such as paperwork — not to provide one‑on‑one mental‑health therapy. The motion passed 5–0.
A separate vote adopted a revision to the district's strategic plan: the fourth pillar was changed to "fiscal stewardship and sustainability," a modification trustees said better encompassed growth and resource management. That motion also passed unanimously.
Trustees then voted to renew shared‑services lunch agreements (transcript: Beersford and Madison school districts) to continue regional meal services; that motion carried 5–0.
Near the meeting's end, a board member moved to enter executive session for personnel and negotiations under statutory authority read aloud in the transcript ("1 25 2 dot 1 n dot 4"). The motion was seconded and approved by roll call.
Each motion passed without recorded dissent; the board flagged a June work session to refine measures of success for strategic‑plan pillars and asked staff to provide follow‑up details on implementation of the new community health worker role.
