The county’s newly appointed Financial Management Committee director Linda Hillis is already making arrangements to learn the ins and outs of running a consolidated purchasing department for Warren County.The committee was formed when the county adopted what is commonly referred to as the 81 Act, state legislation which allowed Tennessee counties to establish a Financial Management Committee to consolidate purchasing for the school system, the highway department and county government.Hillis told commissioners upon her appointment she would like to visit other counties which have adopted the 81 Act to see how they have implemented the system.The first such visit will be to Franklin County this Tuesday. Hillis says all seven members of the Financial Management Committee have been invited to make the trip, but she hasn’t heard who may accompany her.The county is required to have the department and its staff in place and ready to take over by July 1 of next year, so Hillis has 10 months to prepare.For this early visit, Hillis said she just wants to get a general idea of how things work in Franklin County since it made the switch. Hillis said she has some specific goals for Warren County’s new financial department.“One of them is to make sure everything is done the way it’s supposed to be done according to the law,” said Hillis.