Category Archives: News

Southcentral Mississippi Works (SMW) is the seventeen county workforce area which serves individuals and employers in the central and southwest part of the state.  CMPDD serves as the fiscal administrative entity for the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds provided through the U.S.… Read more.

CMPDD staff presented officials of McNeely Plastics, Inc., Copiah County, and Copiah County Economic Development District with a National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) award for Innovative Projects. This NADO award was for the McNeely Plastics expansion project.… Read more.

Butch Lee, Mayor of the City of Brandon, was elected Chairman of the Jackson Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) at the February 8^th Jackson MPO Policy Committee meeting.  The Jackson MPO is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the three metro-area counties (Hinds, Madison, and Rankin). … Read more.

The Central Mississippi Planning and Development District (CMPDD) announced the Jackson Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) approved $20.1 million in Federal Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) funding for metro-area transportation projects aimed at reducing congestion and improving the safety and efficiency of the regional transportation system. … Read more.

The Town of Pelahatchie Comprehensive Plan developed by the Central Mississippi Planning and Development District (CMPDD) has received two prestigious awards. The first was a 2016 Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation. NADO is a Washington, DC-based association that promotes programs and policies that strengthen local governments, communities, and economies through regional cooperation, program delivery, and comprehensive strategies.… Read more.

The Jackson Metropolitan Organization (MPO) announced in August they were accepting applications for the next round of Federal Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) funding available through the Jackson MPO.  The STBG program is a federal-aid transportation program, which provides funding to local municipalities and counties for transportation improvement projects in urbanized areas. … Read more.

Comprehensive Plans are long range planning documents, typically 20 to 25 years.  However, changing conditions require that they be reviewed at least every five years to check for a need to update.

What changed conditions indicate a need to review and revise the community’s comprehensive plan?… Read more.

On Friday, August 12, 2016 the Central Mississippi Planning and Development District (CMPDD), which is the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) responsible for coordinating the federally-mandated transportation planning process for the Jackson Metropolitan Area, announced they are accepting applications for the next round of Federal Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) funding available through the MPO. … Read more.

Over the last few months, CMPDD has prepared and submitted for approval Hazard Mitigation Plans for the Cities of Clinton and Richland, and the Counties of Madison and Rankin.  The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires local jurisdictions to maintain an approved Hazard Mitigation Plan in order to maintain grant eligibility for certain pre- and post-disaster grant programs available through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). … Read more.

In accordance with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), passed in 2014, the State of Mississippi developed a statewide combined workforce plan, “Mississippi Works Smart Start Career Pathway”.  Subsequently, each of the four local workforce areas in the state have developed a local workforce area plan. … Read more.