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PERS board approves administrative items: appointments, recovery action, disability appeal and retiree payroll
Summary
During the April meeting, the board approved two retiree insurance advisory committee appointments, authorized legal recovery for delinquent contributions from the Town of Chula, approved a disability appeal (PERS case 26-02), and accepted the retiree payroll report showing about $222 million monthly payroll and 123,000 retirees.
The Public Employees Retirement System of Mississippi board approved a set of administrative actions at its April meeting, including committee appointments, a certification to pursue delinquent contributions, a disability appeal approval, and acceptance of the retiree payroll report.
Mr. Higgins recommended appointing Timothy Miller and Deborah Whitehead to the retiree insurance advisory committee. Mr. Higgins described Miller as a retired chief administrative officer and firefighter (retired from the city of Meridian) and Whitehead as having years of benefits-administration experience (retired from the city of Jackson). The board moved, seconded and approved both appointments by voice vote.
The claims committee (speaker identified in the transcript as Mr. Jarra) presented a motion certifying the Town of Chula for delinquent contributions for February and March and asked that those amounts be recovered legally. The board approved the motion to pursue legal recovery.
The board also approved a disability appeals committee recommendation to approve PERS case number 26-02 after a motion and second, and it accepted the retiree payroll report showing approximately $222 million in monthly payroll as of April and more than 123,000 retirees.
All administrative motions were approved by voice vote; the transcript records unanimous 'I' responses and no roll-call tallies.
Next steps: staff to proceed with legal recovery for certified delinquencies and to implement any follow-up required for the newly appointed advisory committee members.
