The longtime spokesman for four consecutive Springfield mayors is retiring.
Ernie Slottag will leave his post as city communications director next month.
He was hired in 1995 by then-Mayor Karen Hasara, and was kept on by Tim Davlin, Frank Edwards and Mike Houston.
Slottag will be replaced by Nathan Mihelich, a former Channel 20 reporter who served as a press aide to Houston during his 2011 campaign for mayor.