Patterson mayor named to La. municipal retirement board

Patterson Mayor Rodney Grogan has been elected to the Louisiana Municipal Employee Retirement System’s Board of Trustees.

Grogan will assume the board seat now held by Mandeville Mayor Donald Villere, whose term expires in August. Grogan’s first meeting as trustee will be in October.

According to the MERS website, the system was created in 1955 to provide retirement benefits for the employees of the municipalities of the state. Management of the system was entrusted to a Board of Trustees.

The board consists of 11 members: six members elected by the members of the system, the president of the Louisiana Municipal Association, the chairman of the Senate Retirement Committee, a member of the House Retirement Committee appointed by the speaker of the House, the treasurer and the commissioner of administration.

.Grogan also serves as a district vice president for the Louisiana Municipal Association.