Snider Will Retire At The End Of September
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Vivian Snider submitted her notice of retirement during the Sept. 1 city board meeting.9
WATER VALLEY – Longtime Water Valley City Clerk Vivian Snider will retire at the end of September, closing a nearly 37-year career with the city.
Snider tendered her retirement letter to Mayor Tommy Reynolds and the Board of Aldermen during an executive session Tuesday night. Her retirement will become effective at 5 p.m. Sept. 30.
Snider began working for the City of Water Valley on Oct. 9, 1989, and has served through numerous city administrations during nearly four decades at City Hall.
“I have worked with some wonderful people that will always be my forever work family and friends,” Snider wrote in her retirement letter. “I am truly grateful for them.”
Snider also expressed appreciation for the residents she has served over the years.
“They have been dear to my heart, and truly appreciated me and always told me so,” Snider wrote. “I will continue to acknowledge them when I see them.”
Her retirement was one of two significant personnel developments to emerge from Tuesday’s meeting.
Will Carter told aldermen he plans to scale back his duties and return to his previous role as fire inspector and firefighter with the Water Valley Fire Department, backing away from plans for him to take on an expanded role with the city’s new Building Department.
Board members had previously voted to separate building inspection duties from the Fire Department and establish the Building Department as a stand-alone city department beginning Oct. 1, the first day of the city’s 2027 fiscal year.
Carter had been tapped to handle building inspections, code enforcement and floodplain inspection duties under the new arrangement.
His decision follows a heated discussion during the board’s August budget deliberations over a proposed $70,000 salary for Carter, plus fringe benefits, as part of his expanded responsibilities.
Carter’s decision leaves questions about how the city will handle building inspections, code enforcement and floodplain duties when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
The personnel developments came during the board’s Sept. 1 meeting at City Hall. Mayor Tommy Reynolds and all five members of the Board of Aldermen were present.
