Lake Park, Iowa — The Harris-Lake Park School Board approved some changes in administrative positions on Monday evening that will be effective at the start of the 2025-2026 school year.
Current Superintendent Gary Richardson will be stepping down effective June 30th, 2025. Under the changes approved Monday evening, Mike Thompson, who currently serves as Elementary Principal, will become Superintendent at that point and Greg Hiemstra, current middle school-high school Principal, will become PK-12 Director of Teaching and Learning. Richardson says the board put a lot of consideration into the administrative restructuring.
Even though he’ll be stepping down as Superintendent at the end of the current school year, Richardson says he’ll continue to advise the board on matters related to the construction of the new elementary and improvements to the middle school-high school.
(Courtesy fellow Community First Broadcasting station KUOO in Spirit Lake)
