Clay Collins, Sunset Valley’s city administrator for the past 10 years, announced Jan. 25 that he will retire from the position on April 30.

Collins told Community Impact Newspaper that he gave three months notice because wanted to make sure he was still around to help the city complete its facilities project, which he has helped manage. The new buildings will structurally be completed over the next month, and the city will move public works and police operations into the new structures throughout the spring.

“We’re near the end of this construction project and I feel obligated to get that complete,” he said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do next. I’m planning on retiring [technically] but I don’t plan on sitting in a rocking chair on my front porch. I’ve got some ideas but nothing I would want to announce right now.”

In a statement published online Jan. 25, Mayor Rose Cardona said city council will review what the job description and objectives for a new city administrator will entail. If a new city administrator is not hired by May 1, she said current city staff will perform the administrator duties on an interim basis.

“As a city we could not possibly ask more of him and we will properly recognize Mr. Collins’ retirement in the coming weeks,” Cardona said in the statement.

In his resignation letter to city council, Collins said he will leave the position “knowing that the city has an experienced, dedicated and capable staff in place to continue providing services to the community.”