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Adams Named New City Recorder
By
GLENDA DYER
Eagleville councilmen have named local resident Colleen Adams as the town’s new city recorder.
The action took place at a called meeting held Saturday morning. Former longtime Eagleville city recorder Linda Vincion presented the recommendation from the selection committee. She and Mayor Nolan Barham conducted the interviews, with five candidates being interviewed, Barham said.
"It was a hard job," Vincion said. "We had some very good applications. It came down to the interview process, and it came down to Colleen."
"I am glad to be the person chosen, and I am really excited about it," Adams told councilmen Saturday morning.
Adams is a native of Michigan. She moved to Tennessee in 1981 while still in high school and has lived in Eagleville for about eight years. She is a graduate of Hendersonville High School.
She is married to Dennis Adams and has three children who attend Eagleville School. The couple’s children are a son, Tony, 17, and two daughters, Emily, 14, and Olivia, 9.
She served as a Girl Scout troop leader from 2001 to 2003 and is the current president of the Eagleville High School Football Booster Club.
Adams currently is employed at Practice Resource Network in Brentwood, where she manages a staff of three employees and oversees the medical billing needs for eight medical practices, which include various specialties. In this position, she oversees the processing of more than $440,000 in charges per month.
She joined Practice Resource Network in 2001 to manage the medical billing department.
Barham noted that Adams will have to give a two weeks notice to her current employer.
"That is one of the reasons for expediting this meeting," he said.
Adams other job experience includes four years as administrative assistant to the claims and tracing manager for Service Merchandise in Nashville and four years working collections for two radiologists for Practice Resource Network in Springfield.
She also spent two years posting payments and adjustments for six physician offices for Medical Resource Exchange in Springfield.
Adams noted that while she does not have actual city recorder experience the work skills she has developed, such as office management, decision making, organizational and judgment skills, are similar to those needed in the city recorder position.
Barham said Adams will take the course work to become a certified city recorder.
The mayor pointed out that new employees have a 90-day probation period. Also, the city recorder has to be bonded, so a background check on Adams will be done in conjunction with the bonding process, Councilman M.A. Smitty said.
All the city councilmen present voted for hiring Adams, except Smitty, who abstained from voting. Councilman Greg Buchanan was absent.
Smitty said he was not for hiring an Eagleville resident for the city recorder job because he thought "an outside person would have a better life."
"Being on the city council, there are 500 and some odd people in this town, and I would guess around 300 adults," he said. "They all know who we are."
Smitty told Adams he hopes she has a thick skin because "there will be many things to live with, and your life will no longer be inside your little yard and your little house."
He added that he wanted Adams to know what she was getting into before she took the job.
"There are many wonderful people in the area as you know, but there are tough people also and it is a tough way to go and we have learned to live with it," he said, adding that he asked for the office and was not complaining.
He predicted that even though the city recorder job is an office of just one employee, that there would be "more office politics than any job" Adams has ever had.