Small Business Consortium Board created; composition; compensation and expenses of members; meetings.

Miss. Code Ann. § 57-10-159
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There is hereby created the Small Business Consortium Board which shall be the policymaking body for the state’s program of services to nonagricultural small businesses. The consortium board will be composed of the following seven (7) members: The Executive Director of the Department of Economic and Community Development; the Director of the University Research Center; the Director of the Department of Finance and Administration; the Director of the Enterprise Development Division of the Department of Economic and Community Development; the president of a public junior college appointed by the Mississippi Junior College Association; the President of the Certified Development Company of Mississippi, Inc.; and the District Director of the Small Business Administration. Members of the consortium board shall receive no compensation for their services as members of the board. All consortium board members who are employees of the state or any entity thereof may receive reimbursement for actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses incurred, such reimbursement to be in the manner provided for in Section 25-3-41. A majority of the consortium board shall constitute a quorum, but less than a quorum may adjourn the meeting from time to time. The consortium board shall hold its meetings on at least a semiannual basis by call of the coordinator or a majority of the consortium board, and such meetings may be held at any place within the State of Mississippi acceptable to a majority of the board.

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