“[Roberts’] impact on [his] profession, the wider community, not just our city, is huge,” Mayor Jim Penniman-Morin said at the meeting. “But [his] impact on our city is incalculable.”
Roberts began working with the city as an engineer in 1992, when the population of Cedar Park was just below 7,000. Ten years later in 2002, Roberts was promoted to assistant city manager. Prior to his promotion, Roberts served as director of public works.
Within his assistant city manager role, Roberts oversees public works, utilities, engineering, capital projects and emergency management. Every project in Cedar Park in the last three decades, from roads, facilities and water, has Roberts’ handprints on it, city staff said.
“Even though it’s the most bittersweet thing I’ve ever done, leaving here, I know it’s the right thing, but man it’s bittersweet,” Roberts said at the meeting. “The pride I have in working for this organization. ... It’s so immense; you can’t even put it into words.”
