by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — The Wellington school board took action after each of the three executive sessions Thursday evening, including accepting the resignation of Rick Weiss as superintendent of the Wellington USD 353 school district.

Weiss will be retiring at the end of the 2015-16 school year. His tenure will end June, 2016 upon the completion of this academic school year.

“I think I’ll read a lot of books, play with my grandkids, hunt and fish, and go to a lot more of my son’s baseball games,” Weiss said about his impending retirement.

Weiss came to the Wellington school district nine years ago in 2006. He had previously been the superintendent at Chase County for 16 years.

“Twenty seven years, boy that sounds like a long time,” Weiss joked. “You would think I’d be old enough to know better.”

In other board action:

•The board accepted the Wellington-NEA negotiated contract for 2015-16.

•It approved a resolution to petition the Kansas State Board of Education to revoke the teaching license of Kristen Ledesma for the remainder of the 2015-16 school year because of a breach of contract on behalf of Ms. Ledesma.

•The board gave permission for the formation of a clay target team of 10 students to start this spring with Vo-Ag instructor Linda Chase as the coach.

•It gave permission to allow students to form a new Wellington High School pep club.

•It accepted the hiring of Sammy Brown as the WHS Freshman girls basketball coach; Austin Treft as an eighth grade boys assistant basketball coach; Jacob Kehres as a seventh grade boys assistant basketball coach; and Dylan Sweeney as the WHS art teacher to begin the second semester.

•The board also accepted the resignation of Robert Escandon, WHS math, effective at the end of the 2015-2016 school year.

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