- November 17, 2024
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City of Palm Coast Street Superintendent Tony Capela resigned suddenly late on Friday, Jan. 9, submitting to the city just a one-sentence letter that said that he was resigning, “effective immediately.”
The letter gives no reason for the resignation.
Capela, 46, was hired Nov. 6, 2006, Palm Coast spokeswoman Cindi Lane said, and oversaw about 100 people in his role as head of the Division of Streets and Drainage, part of the city’s Public Works Department.
Public Works Director Richard Adams accepted Capela’s resignation when it was offered Friday, a move Lane said is not uncommon in resignations from high-level positions.
“There was no problem, no issue” with Capela, she said. “It was completely his choice. Tony was a very valuable employee to the city. He made a lot of difference to the organization; he made a lot of difference in the flood last fall and the tornado in 2013.”
Capela was cleared of ethics charges of favoritism and corruption in a 2012 case in which the Florida Commission on Ethics found no probable cause for complaints against him that had been filed by a former employee.
Lane said Jan. 13 that the city had not yet decided whether it will promote someone to Capela’s position or do an outside search for a new division head.
In the meantime, Lane said, the Division of Streets and Drainage has numerous different supervisors for various functions, like drainage or swale maintenance, who are longtime employees and can continue their work and report to Adams in Capela’s absence.
Capela’s salary was $86,180, and he moved to the city of Palm Coast for the city job after working in the private sector, Lane said.
