Crossville In Need Of Public Works Director, Engineering Help

The Crossville City Council discussed the idea of adding an assistant city manager on Tuesday night.

However, based on survey results Crossville was seen as too small to need the position. City Manager Greg Wood said the city’s current need is a public works director and a professional engineer.

“My recommendation is looking at potentially upgrading and training to a PE,” Wood said. “Once you get him or her with their feet on the ground. Then you can transfer Tim (Begley) to the public works position but you still need another engineering technician.”

Tim Begley currently serves as city engineer for Crossville. Wood said these two positions are pressing because of the number of projects gearing up to begin in Crossville.

“We are so slammed right now,” Wood said. “With the northwest connector phase three and then we’re going to have the northwest connector phase two coming down the road after that. We’ve got 127 north, Tim is having to pull people from storm water to be able to handle all these projects.”

Another source of concern for the city is that it has had an engineer in training position posted for over a year. It was said the city has reached out to Upper Cumberland universities for applicants, but the latest round of outreach has netted only one resume.