RICHMOND – Board member Jonathon Renfro’s call for a mask mandate to kick in if the number of Richmond School District absentees from COVID-19 were to reach 5% of the student population failed. Renfro could not get any board members to “second” his motion, meaning the board did not bother to vote on the suggestion during the special meeting Monday at the middle school. “I’m not going to comment,” he said while leaving the building. Led by President Jon Dana, most of the other board members – like the majority of about 70 people in the audience – made their mask opposition clear from the meeting’s outset. “We’re here tonight because we’ve had an issue with rising quarantine numbers that are keeping too many kids out of school. We’ve got to find a way to deal with that. Personally, I feel like I don’t believe a mask mandate is right. I feel that choice is with the individual,” Dana said, and went on to call the quarantine protocol “flawed” and inconsistent. “The mask mandate is a hard…