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Park Rapids Area School Board approves agenda, consent items, handbooks and several operational policies
Summary
The board approved the meeting agenda and a consent package that included payments, minutes, several resignations and new hires, first and second readings of multiple student handbooks, a distance/e-learning plan, fundraisers and PAWN service agreements.
The Park Rapids Area School Board approved the meeting agenda and a slate of consent items at its Aug. 18, 2025, meeting in the district board room.
The agenda and addendums were approved on a motion recorded as Morgan with Kocka noted as the second. The board then approved the consent items on a motion recorded as Morgan/Diekmann.
Consent items included payments presented for July 2025 and minutes from the Aug. 5, 2025 working board meeting. The consent motion also recorded personnel changes: resignations for Lowell Whitcomb (Custodian I), Kayla Jensen (paraprofessional), and Krystal Murphy (head girls basketball coach); and new hires Kasey Schorn (ASD teacher, Century Elementary) and Arizona Omberg (assistant mechanic). Two additional playground monitor hires—Andrea Thelin and Crystal Harris—were added via an addendum.
On the policy front the board recorded approvals for a first reading of the Student Rights and Responsibilities/Code of Conduct and Discipline policy for the 2025-2026 school year and second readings (recorded in the minutes) for the elementary and high school handbooks, the Technology Implementation Handbook and the Park Rapids Area Virtual Academy (PRAVA) handbook. The board also approved the Activities Handbook, a Distance and E-Learning Days Plan for inclement weather, authorized fundraisers for 2025-2026 and approved PAWN Purchase of Service Agreements for the coming school year.
The minutes show these items as recorded actions; the transcript provides movers/second notations (e.g., Morgan/Diekmann) but does not include roll-call vote tallies in the readable segments.
