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Are you a new clerk? MMCCA offers a Mentorship program! The mentorship program seeks to provide guidance to new clerks by those experienced in their field.


If you want to take advantage of the Mentorship Program, contact the Mentorship Committee Chair. Click HERE to find the most current committee chair.  The committee chair will ask you what sort of software you use, what type of government you work under, and your responsibilities. This will help pair you with someone experienced in the same area!



The MMCCA CMC Program is sponsored by the Mississippi State University Extension Center for Government and Community Development.

To learn more about how to achieve your CMC, IIMC, and MMC, click here:  Mississippi Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC) Program

IIMC

The International Institute of Municipal Clerks was founded in 1947 and has more than 15,000 members representing small municipalities and large urban jurisdictions of more than several million people. 

If you are pursuing your CMC through the MSU Extension Center, consider becoming a member of IIMC as soon as possible in order to qualify for your MMC. 

During Election Year - Remember to watch for election training and more information including calendars from the Office of the Secretary of State!

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State of Mississippi Helpful Downloads

CMC iNFORMATION

The CMC Application will only be operable when the window for registration is open. To get more details, visit the Mississippi Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC) Program and Calendar. 

CMC Application


Athenian Leadership Society

Dialogues are conversations that go beyond the usual knowledge recall and application process familiar to all municipal clerks in training seminars. They are unique because they explore leadership principles and practice, drawing on the insights contained in a book that all participants have read.

Dialogues are conversations in which clerks share their experience and understanding as it relates to the ideas of the author and the relevance of those ideas to their public leadership role.

Course SESSIONS Schedule for CMC 

PHASE I - FALL



PHASE I - SPRING



PHASE II - FALL



PHASE II - SPRING



PHASE III - FALL



PHASE III - SPRING


cLASS TITLES PER SESSION

  • Functions of Government
  • Basics of Fund Accounting
  • Purchasing
  • Bonds
  • Personnel Management
  • Budgeting and Fixed Assets
  • Agendas and Meetings
  • Law I
  • Diversity in the Workplace
  • Election Overview
  • Computer Technology
  • Parliamentary Procedure
  • Principles of Public Administration
  • Ethics and Openness in Government
  • PERS
  • Law II
  • Liability in Government
  • Emergency Management
  • Leadership
  • Grants and Grant Administration
  • Risk Management
  • Record Management
  • Communications
  • Community Development
  • Financial Management
  • Social Media
  • Tax 101 and Tax Levy
  • Law III
  • Privilege Licenses and Permits
  • Enterprise Funds

other training opportunities

  • MASTER MUNICIPAL CLERK COURSES
  • WINTER EDUCATIONAL WORKSHIP
  • MMCCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
  • MISSISSIPPI MUNICIPAL LEAGUE CONFERENCES
  • IIMC CONFERENCES

Join Clerk Connect!

Do you have questions and concerns you would like to ask your fellow clerks and association members? Join Clerk Connect today to post, view, and answer questions.

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History of the MMCCA:

Clerks, assessors and tax collectors have been part of Mississippi government for many years, but were first organized some 52 years ago during an epic meeting on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

A group of 33 charter members met July 10, 1964, in the Sun Room at the Buena Vista Hotel in Biloxi and formed what came to be known as the Mississippi Clerks, Assessors and Tax Collectors Association (MCAC). Lloyd Lancaster was elected the first president.

In 1972, Mississippi became the first state organization to establish an ongoing extensive certification program, established through the Cooperative Extension Service at Mississippi State; three years later 46 clerks, assessors and collectors comprised the largest group of graduating clerks from a single state. Of that group, 46 finished the three-year course, 30 received state certification and 19 also received certification from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC).

Today the certification training program is perhaps better known as the Mississippi Municipal Clerk Institute. Co-sponsored by the Mississippi Municipal Clerks and Collectors Association, the institute became the third to be accredited by IIMC in 1973 and is recognized also by the Mississippi Municipal Association. For many years the program was taught by P.C. “Mac” McLaurin Jr., longtime director of the Mississippi Municipal Clerks Institute. When he retired in 2008, Sumner Davis was named institute director and Janet Baird stepped in to coordinate the municipal clerks’ training program, bringing with her years of experience and insight gained as the Kosciusko city clerk. She retired from full-time work in 2014, but continues to work on special projects at the Extension Service on a part-time basis; Patrick Miller now serves as coordinator of the clerks’ certification training program.

The University of Mississippi conference for the clerks’ association was added in 1984 and has been held in early spring every year since then, with a Certification of Completion is awarded for participation in five hours of organized instruction. Bob Church, and later Bruce Bellende, of the Ole Miss staff worked with MCAC to coordinate this conference in the early years. Today the seminars are organized by the intrepid Renee Moore-Cain and her assistant, Cindy Heuser, of the university’s Continuing Education Division.

Some 3,000 clerks have participated in the clerks’ program since 1973, with 798 of those clerks obtaining state certification. Since 1973, 134 Mississippi municipal clerks have obtained the Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC) designation from IIMC; of that number, 26 are current members. For that same time period, 12 Mississippi clerks have been named Master Municipal Clerk (MMC); 9 of them are current members of the organization.

At present, the Mississippi Municipal Clerks and Collectors Association has 125 members, 118 of whom are current members of IIMC.


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Paula W. Tierce, President P.O. Box 217                              Ridgeland, MS  39158            (601) 856-7113                       mississippiclerks@gmail.com 

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