Tofino Mayor Perry Schmunk announced his resignation during a council meeting Tuesday, which came as no surprise to his colleagues.

Schmunk said he had been transparent with scheduling issues that came up after he accepted a job as marketing director with Vancouver-based Cactus Club Cafe Restaurants Ltd. in August.

"I went to council at the time to say my situation is changing," Schmunk told The Huffington Post B.C. Wednesday. Tofino council decided to give Schmunk's new situation a try for a couple months anyways.

Problems began after his new schedule took him out of town multiple times a week and challenged his ability to regularly attend council's Tuesday meetings.

Schmunk said he went to council again to decide if either "the best course of action is we change the meeting time or we look at the other options." The decision was made to accept Schmunk's resignation.

"It was with a heavy heart," Schmunk said of his decision to step down. "I really enjoyed serving the community."

Schmuck's last day in office will be Jan. 1, 2013.

Also on HuffPost:

Loading Slideshow...

  • A humpback whale tail breaches off Sydney Heads at the beginning of whale watching season during a Manly Whale Watching tour on June 23, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

  • A humpback whale emerges from the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia, on July 22, 2011. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)

  • In this picture taken on September 23, 2011, an aquarium employee swims with a whale shark in an aquarium tank in the city of Yantai, northeastern Shandong province.

  • A humpback whale is seen breaching outside of Sydney Heads at the beginning of whale watching season during a Manly Whale Watching tour on June 23, 2011 in Sydney, Australia.

  • In this photo taken July 21, 2011, a baby gray whale is seen with its mother in the Klamath River in Klamath, Calif.

  • Female orca Wikie swims with her calf born by artificial insemination on April 19, 2011 at Marineland animal exhibition park in the French Riviera city of Antibes, southeastern France.

  • An 8.5 metre-long juvenile humpback whale remains stranded on Anaconda beach in La Paloma, department of Rocha, in southeastern Uruguay, on January 27, 2011. AFP

  • A humpback whale is seen breaching outside of Sydney Heads at the beginning of whale watching season during a Manly Whale Watching tour on June 23, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

  • The tail of a humpback whale emerges from the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia, on July 22, 2011. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)

  • Watch As Whale Jumps Out Of Water And Bumps Canoe

    A couple canoeing in Maui film the moment when a breaching whale his their canoe while paddling out in the ocean.