Oliver Springs has a new city manager.
The Oliver Springs Town Council agreed last week to offer the job to Tina Treece, a former city recorder and interim city manager in Spring City, and she has accepted, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
Treece started Monday.
It’s a decision that he regrets having to make, but Eddie Kelley will not accept the city manager’s job in Oliver Springs.
The son of former Oliver Springs Mayor Ed Kelley, the 51-year-old Kelley said he is not close enough to being able to retire from his job at the Y-12 National Security Complex, where he is a tactical training supervisor for WSI-OR.
OLIVER SPRINGS—The Oliver Springs Town Council has picked the son of the city’s former mayor to become city manager.
The Council agreed in a 4-1 vote Thursday night to have Oliver Springs Mayor Chris Hepler negotiate with Eddie Kelley Jr. for the position. Kelley is the son of former Oliver Springs Mayor Ed Kelley, and he is also the city’s part-time parks director.
The Oliver Springs Town Council agrees to interview a third candidate for city manager. Pictured above from left are Council members James Brummett and Terry Holland, Mayor Chris Hepler, and Council members Omer Cox and Maurice Walker.
OLIVER SPRINGS — The self-imposed deadline to hire a new city manager has already passed, and the Oliver Springs Town Council agreed Thursday to wait another two weeks so they can interview a third candidate who didn’t respond to an earlier interview offer.
The candidate, John Hannah of Waynesville, N.C., now says he is very interested in the job, Oliver Springs Mayor Chris Hepler told Council members. But Hannah hasn’t explained why he didn’t respond to an earlier interview offer, Hepler said.
Hannah, a civil engineer who has been an adjunct professor and project manager, had been one of eight finalists for the position, which has been open since former City Manager David Bolling resigned in February to take a job in Newcastle, Maine.
The hunt for a new city manager in Oliver Springs is down to two candidates, and the Town Council could interview the finalists during a meeting on Thursday.
The two finalists are Tina Treece, a former city recorder and interim city manager in Spring City, and Joe Abbott, a Lake City resident who is also a sales manager for East Tennessee Equipment-Kubota of Knoxville.
