Information from WYSH Radio
Our partners at BBB-TV have learned that Oliver Springs City Manager Becky Campbell will be stepping down at the end of the month.
Campbell has served as the Oliver Springs city manager since November 2014 after succeeding Tina Treece.
Campbell is wrapping up 18 years with the town. Much of her tenure was spent as an administrative assistant. [Read more…]
Tina Treece (Photo by BBB-TV)
Information from WYSH Radio
According to our partners at BBB-TV, Oliver Springs City Manager Tina Treece has announced that she is resigning after more than two years on the job.
Treece notified city leaders of her intention to step down on Wednesday, the day after the Tuesday, November 4, election. But BBBÂ said it wasn’t clear if the resignation was because of the election.
Treece has been in her position since early 2012, when she replaced David Bolling, who left the city for a similar job in Maine. Bolling, who is also a former Anderson County commissioner, has since returned to Tennessee as city manager in Kingston.
Howie Rose, director of the Roane County Office of Emergency Services, pictured at right front, briefs firefighters responding to a sulfur dioxide leak at the Oliver Springs Waste Water Treatment Plant on Joel Road on Wednesday morning. (Photos by Tom Scott)
No one was injured or exposed to sulfur dioxide in a leak at the Oliver Springs wastewater treatment plant on Wednesday, but a small group of nearby residents were asked to stay in their homes as a precaution, City Manager Tina Treece said.
The small leak from a system connected to a 150-pound cylinder of sulfur dioxide was discovered by workers who heard an alarm when they arrived at the plant on Joel Road at about 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Treece said there was no odor in the air and it turned out that the leak posed no danger, but officials wanted to make sure conditions were safe for residents and workers.
The Oliver Springs Town Council voted 4-2 on Thursday to keep Tina Treece as city manager after her probationary period ends in a few days, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The vote followed a 30-minute discussion on Treece’s performance during her first three months.
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.
The Oliver Springs Town Council voted Thursday 3-2, with one abstention, to offer the city manager job to Tina Treece of Rhea County, according to WYSH Radio in Clinton.
The town has been without a permanent city manager since earlier this year when David Bolling stepped down to accept a similar job in Maine.
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.
