by Associated Press Published: April 23,2013
Tags: beach, executive, fired, marine, resign, resignation, resources, retire, retirement, senior management, state agency, terminate, termination, wetlands
BILOXI — Another top official at the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has announced he’s leaving. The Sun Herald reports Danny Guice, who had been interim director of the agency after DMR executive director Bill Walker was fired in January, announced to the staff last week he would be retiring, effective June 30. The agency [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 22,2013
Tags: city government, elected official, election, executive, mayor, municipal, municipality, politician, Politics, public official, retire, retirement
BROOKHAVEN — Mayor Les Bumgarner says he won’t seek re-election to a second term. Bumgarner cited his long record of government service, his age — he’s 65 — and family and personal reasons for the decision. Bumgarner told The Daily Leader he intends to try to enjoy himself in retirement. It’s unclear who will run [...] [...]
An agreement by the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi to release minutes of its Oct. 23 meeting has led the Mississippi Business Journal to withdraw a state Ethics Commission complaint it made against PERS. PERS executive director Pat Robertson initially ordered her staff to refuse the release of the minutes until they could be [...] [...]
A new joint legislative report suggests several state agencies study whether the state can — or should — sweeten incentives used to attract and retain workers. The Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, or PEER, says the state needs to examine its employee benefit offerings “in preparation for an uncertain future.” With [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 17,2013
Tags: city, employee benefits, funding, health insurance, municipal, municipality, pension, rank, retire, retiree, retirement, shortfall, study, survey
JACKSON — Sixty-one key cities across America, including Jackson, have emerged from the Great Recession with a gap of more than $217 billion between what they had promised their workers in pensions and retiree health care and what they had saved to pay that bill, according to a report released by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 8,2013
Tags: benefits, employee, employer, law, lawmaker, legislative, Legislature, public employee, retire, retirement, retirement system, retiring
JACKSON — The PEER Committee has released a report on its review of the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi (PERS). The scope and purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive look into the decision-making processes of the PERS board of trustees, its staff and its contractual advisors to determine whether the PERS [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 19,2012
Tags: commission, commissioner, election, export, exporter, exporting, import, importer, importing, port, relocate, resign, resignation, retire, retirement, ship, shipper, shipping, transportation
GULFPORT — State port commissioner Frances Turnage has resigned from the five-member board. Commission president Jim Simpson tells the Sun Herald that Turnage emailed late Friday about her resignation. Simpson says she has retired from Mississippi Power and intends to relocate to be nearer her grandchildren. She will no longer be living in Harrison County. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 18,2012
Tags: administrator, community college, education, educator, executive, female, first, higher education, pioneer, President, retire, retirement, retiring, woman
CLARKSDALE — Dr. Vivian Mathews Presley, president of Coahoma Community College for more than two decades, and the first woman to head a community or junior college in the state of Mississippi, will retire June 30. Johnny McGlown, chairman of the board of trustees, says a search committee has been organized to name her successor. [...] [...]
Directors of state departments and agencies must find a way to pay for a 10.4 percent increase in the employer share of the PERS of Mississippi retirement starting in July. Legislators have withheld the approximately $62 million needed to pay for the increased share of the retirement fund and left department heads to sift through [...] [...]
The board of trustees of the $20-billion Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi (PERS) trust fund has agreed to up the state’s contribution to the plan in 2014 in hopes of reversing a slide in the funded portion of the trust’s liabilities. The move follows a composite loss of $1.87 billion for fiscal 2012 and [...] [...]
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