Executive News
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03/15/2011
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MTAS Staff,
Although we all will miss their service to the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service and to the cities and towns of Tennessee, both Ray Crouch and Gary West have our congratulations with new assignments.
After nearly 20 years of service with the University and more than 38 in the State of Tennessee, Ray Crouch is retiring from MTAS as Fire Management Consultant as of May 1, 2011. Ray deserves much more than any of us can ever say or provide, and we wish him well with this decision and with the next stage of his career. We will be covering some of Ray's contributions in an upcoming Newsletter.
It is also with great pride that we announce that after nearly six years of service, MTAS Fire Management Consultant Gary West has accepted an outstanding opportunity to serve as Assistant Commissioner for Fire Prevention with the State of Tennessee, leaving UT-MTAS as of March 25, 2010. We will all be looking forward to working with Gary in his new service to the state from Nashville.
We are very proud of both of these extraordinary professionals for their dedicated service. We will be recruiting a Fire Management Consultant shortly, and in the meantime will be working with experts in Tennessee while we go through the search process. We will continue the work on existing projects, and if you have any questions or concerns, please contact Sharon Rollins or Melanie Purcell in the UT-MTAS Knoxville Office at (865) 974-0411.
Thank you,
Steve
Steven T. Thompson
Executive Director
Municipal Technical Advisory Service
University of Tennessee
120 Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-4105
(865) 974-9856 Office
(865) 974-0423 Fax
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