San Angelo's City Clerk accepts Job in Austin Suburb

City Clerk Alicia Ramirez, who has served the City of San Angelo for 23 years – the past eight in her current post, will resign, effective Oct. 31, to accept the City Secretary post in the Austin suburb of Buda.

As City Clerk, Ramirez has been chiefly responsible for the City’s records management, elections administration, public information requests, execution and custody of official records, and the crafting of City Council agendas and minutes. She will perform similar duties in Buda, a city of more than 10,000 people 13 miles southwest of Austin.

“I’ve loved living in and serving San Angelo,” Ramirez said. “It’s hard to leave a place that’s been home for so long, but I’m extremely excited about the opportunity to work and to live in a fast-growing community on the cusp of a metropolitan area. I’m eager for those challenges and adventures.”

Deputy City Clerk Maria Franco will lead the City Clerk’s office in the interim as the City searches for a successor.

Ramirez joined the City of San Angelo in 1991 as a human resources technician, serving in that job until 2002, when she became a transportation planner. She has served as City Clerk since Sept. 16, 2005. She has twice earned certification as a Texas Registered Municipal Clerk and in 2011 earned a certified public manager’s designation.

During her time as City Clerk, Ramirez modernized the office, digitizing city records dating to 1960 and making them more readily accessible to the public. She served on the Tom Green County Elections Committee that established the super-precincts that will be used for the first time in the Nov. 4 election, she managed the first recodification of the City Code of Ordinances since 1996, and she partnered with Angelo State University’s West Texas Collection to share the City’s historical information.

“I won’t sugarcoat it – the loss of Alicia’s institutional knowledge will be significant,” Mayor Dwain Morrison said. “She has an uncanny, almost photographic memory for recalling what the City Council did when. She also executed with aplomb the sometimes maddening chore of herding the seven cats who sit at the Council dais. We wish her the very best.”