Alan Mosley resigned Monday as the Florida Department of Transportation District 2 secretary, according to an email he distributed to the district, and was replaced in the interim by Nick Tsengas, the district’s director of transportation operations.
Tsengas took the interim position Tuesday, according to an email by Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad.
Mosley took the job in February 2010 after serving as chief administrative officer to former Mayor John Peyton.
Mosley could not be reached for comment.
The secretary’s position was advertised Tuesday “and it is my intention to fill this critical position with a permanent replacement as quickly as possible,” said Prasad
According to Prasad, Mosley left the department “to pursue new opportunities in the private sector.”
“Alan has been discussing his departure with me for the last couple of weeks and he has decided to leave the Department to pursue those opportunities,” said the email distributed by Prasad.
“Alan’s dedicated service to the State of Florida and to the Department has been most appreciated and, while we hate to see him leave FDOT, we wish him well in the next chapter of his life and career,” he said.
Mosley, said in his email that he was announcing his departure “with mixed emotion.”
Mosley was hired Feb. 26, 2010, and was paid a salary of $136,586, according to state records.
“For the past several weeks I have been discussing my desire to return to the private sector with the Secretary and feel that now it is in my best interest to leave the agency and give that pursuit my full attention,” Mosley said Monday in the email.
“It has been my distinct honor and privilege to serve as the Secretary for District II and I take with me memories that time will not extinguish,” he said.
“I also have a great confidence in the future of the agency grounded in the hard work of a 7,000-member workforce under the leadership of Secretary Prasad and Governor (Rick) Scott,” he wrote
“So at last it is goodbye and in the words of some long ago poet ‘may the road rise up to meet you and may the wind be ever at your back ... and till we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand,’” he wrote
Prasad extended best wishes to Mosley.
“He will be missed. I always looked to him at various meeting for the assurance that the decision we are about to make, he is at peace with it. As part of Alan’s legacy, I will continue to seek assurances from folks on whether they are at peace with the decisions that we make and the directions that we embark on,” wrote Prasad.