MMA News

The Scholarship Screening Committee reviewed seventy-four applications for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Scholarship Screening Committee included Julie Ramer, Chair, Explore Minnesota Tourism, Rob Rose, Human Services, Shelly Siegel, MnSCU and Kathy Hanson, Labor and Industry

There are always more deserving applicants than available scholarships; however, the Screening Committee had to make the difficult decision of choosing the winners. The applicants chosen illustrated not only outstanding academic achievement, but a balance of community service, work experience and family obligations.

The recipient for member category is:

Kimberly Roan
Department of MinnesotaStateColleges and Universities

The recipients for dependent category are:

Julie Regimbal
Father is Gregg Regimbal, Department of Agriculture

Amanda Rumpca
Mother is Susan Rumpca, Department of Minnesota Management and Budget

Angela Tauer
Mother is Jacqueline Tauer, Department of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Matthew Kluthe
Mother is Beth Kluthe, Department of Health

Hailey Kotts
Father is Kevin Kotts, Department of Natural Resources

Our congratulations and best wishes to those selected.

With the end of the fiscal year coming up, please check to make sure of your status on the following;

Floating Holiday – Did you use it this fiscal year? If not, schedule it off before June 30, 2013 or you will lose it (see Article 9, Section 2 for further details).

Vacation Balance – Has your vacation accumulation been at or below 275 once during the fiscal year? If not, try to get your vacation balance down to 275 or below before June 30, 2013. If you are not able to get it down to 275 hours, your balance will automatically reduce to 275 hours for the start of the next fiscal year (see Article 8, Section 1E).

Deferred Compensation – If you are at the top step of your range or will be by June 30th, you are eligible to convert up to 40 hours of vacation to deferred compensation. You must complete the appropriate forms no later than June 7th (see Article 8, Section 9).

You must complete the forms on the employee self-service system to receive the $300.00 State contribution even if you are not eligible for or do not choose to convert vacation to deferred compensation (see Article 16, Section 15).

Compensatory Time Bank Liquidation – Please be aware that, at the discretion of the appointing authority, all or a portion of your compensatory bank may be liquidated in cash. One of the pay periods this can occur is the one closest to July 1st. Check with your individual agency to find out if they liquidate compensatory time (see Article 11, Section 1D(4) and Section 3).

MMA has added a new Business Representative to its staff; his name is Jim Mrozek, and his first day of employment was on April 10, 2013.

Jim brings with him a wealth of corporate business experience from two large multi-international companies, IBM and 3M. Jim also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from St. Cloud State University.

Jim resides in Bloomington with his wife and 3 children.  He has been an instrumental member of his community’s youth athletic associations, serving as a coach, director, board member, disciplinary committee member, and head of the Coaches Selection Committee.

We are pleased to have Jim working for MMA and welcome him to the MMA team.  At the present time, My and Jim will be working jointly to handle all agency issues. Therefore, specific agency assignments (for Jim) will not be posted on the website at this time.