The New Kent County School Board is gathering input and applications to prepare for the July retirement of Superintendent J. Roy Geiger II. Geiger, 58, who began his career in New Kent as a teacher 33 years ago, has been superintendent since July 1995. School Board Chairman Joseph S. Yates said an outside consultant, Richard Hixson of Yorktown, has been hired to assist with the statewide search for a new superintendent.