Former Niles Community Schools Superintendent Richard Weigel has turned down an offer to become superintendent of Port Huron Public Schools, according to an article published in the Port Huron Times Herald Monday.

The Port Huron Board of Education voted 4-3 last week to offer the job to Weigel, who resigned in February from his post at Niles amid allegations that he bullied staff and created a hostile work environment.

One of the Port Huron board members who voted in favor of hiring Weigel resigned from her position late last week.

Weigel told the Times Herald he decided to withdraw when the board member resigned, making it a split board in support of his hire.

“I do not think it is in the best interest for the board or myself to move forward,” he told the Port Huron newspaper.

Weigel’s proposed contract would have run from July 1 through June 30, 2016 at a starting salary of $140,000 a year, according to the Times Herald.

“He called me late last evening (Sunday),” Stout told the Times Herald Monday. “He had hung in through the whole thing and when I called him, he accepted the position and we had been talking about the contract, so yeah, I was surprised.”

Stout told the paper that the board would have to discuss how to move forward with finding a new superintendent, likely at a special meeting.