Thank you for being a member of the Mississippi Retired Public Employees’
Association. MRPEA is an organization that represents anyone associated with the
Mississippi Public Employee Retirement System includes active employees and
retired employees. Currently, there are 2,213 members of this association. That voice is strong when it comes to advocating for your continued and future benefits, but we need as
many members as possible.
I would like to take this opportunity to challenge each of you to recruit one new
member per month for the next 12 months. If less than half of our membership does
this that would increase our membership by 12,000 next year. The upcoming Legislative Session will begin in January 2022. I would like to encourage each of you, your family, and others associated with PERS to reach out to your Legislator and let them know how important your benefits are to your well-being.
There have been many challenges as a result of the pandemic. In some ways,
people have gotten very creative in communicating. It is my hope that our state can
get back to some type of normalcy soon. If so, hopefully, we can have an in-person
conference this coming year.
I would like to personally thank all of the Board members for donating time
to serve in each capacity as we move forward. I believe there are some great ideas
among all of us to make this organization great. I would also like to thank Emily
Pote for her hard work and dedication to this organization. I would encourage each
of you to reach out to her or myself with ideas you have of growing our membership
or other important issues.
I pray each of you and your family has a happy and safe new year.
Steven Allen, MRPEA President