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State agency continues to lose top executives

Associated Press — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:26:41 +0000

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 [...]

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Mayor to opt out of second term and retire

Associated Press — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:18:21 +0000

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 [...]

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PERS reverses refusal to release meeting minutes

Ted Carter — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:28:48 +0000

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 [...]

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Joint legislative report raises points of contention

Ted Carter — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:26:43 +0000

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 [...]

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Study: Capital City’s pension plan one of worst in U.S.

MBJ Staff — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:36:38 +0000

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 [...]

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PEER recommends changes to PERS administration

MBJ Staff — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:56:11 +0000

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 [...]

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Port commissioner resigns; term ran through 2015

Associated Press — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:07:16 +0000

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. [...]

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Pioneering community college president retiring next year

Associated Press — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:42:18 +0000

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. [...]

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Funding PERS will be up to departments in 2013

Ted Carter — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:15:24 +0000

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 [...]

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PERS: Employer contribution rate for defined benefits will climb

Ted Carter — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:02:54 +0000

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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