Weaver to resign from commissioner, citing business demands
Winter Park City Commissioner Todd Weaver said Friday he was resigning, citing time constraints with his growing business.
Weaver, who was first elected in 2019, was re-elected last year and his term was to run until March 2025.
He sent an email to supporters early Friday titled “stepping down” and said, “Because of ever-increasing responsibilities outside City government, I have struggled with time management of late. There is no end in sight for these other responsibilities.”
But he hadn’t submitted a formal resignation by Friday afternoon, he said, and hadn’t set an effective date. He wouldn’t say what had delayed it.
Because he resigned within 60 days of the March election, the remaining city commissioners and Mayor Phil Anderson will appoint a replacement until the next general election, according to the city charter.
“Some events occurred in the last couple of weeks,” Weaver said of not resigning sooner. “It wasn’t intentional.”
Municipal elections in Orange County are scheduled for March 14, and two incumbent commissioners in Winter Park were re-elected without opposition, so there will be no ballot in the city.
Weaver is a retired aerospace engineer but is the president of a company that manufactures wheels for robots that inspect pipes underground. With that company he’ll be opening a distribution center in Europe and be traveling overseas quite a bit, he said.
“I’m juggling too many balls,” he said by phone Friday.
The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday for its regular business.
City Commissioners are paid $12,600 annually, according to the city charter, and serve three-year terms.