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.Jackbon. llo!laid ho Wll>- in " noway" pressured to quit.. His $1,4£i7 per-month lob hying contract expires Oct. 31, prcsi· dents suid. · Announdng Wynne's resignation, Hinds Community College Pres ident Clyde Muse also spoke of divisions among the presidents. Six of the 15 community college presidents resigned from the found ation's board of direc– tors SepL. 27. "We have found ourselves recently hopelessly split in thoughts and directions," Muse said. "We've had innuen– dos and .rumors damaging to us. It is causing us difficulty in terms ofany process to move forward in the future." The attorney general's office il'l investigating questions about spending practices of the fonnclntion housed on the Hinds campus. "There has been no change in thll status," said Trey Bo· binger, assist~nt atton~y ~er~l_. I n~~_t.igl_ll h!.nt>_lyuicall

take several Wt;Cks lu.,o few months, he said. The attorney gt·m1.als office has also investigated the college presidents' r\'('t•nt hiring of Wisconsin-based Ev– ans and Associates lio'l tlochnology consultants, presidents said. Their $93,000 clint ract includes $68,000 from the two– year colleges and $2Ci.OOO from the Mississippi Library Commission. "So far not a dimt• has been spent," said Pearl River CommunityCollege PreHident TedAlexander. "We are not required to take bids. I'm not planningto spend anymoney until we get the results ofthe investigation." Wynne attended a hrief founda tion board meeting wiLh some presidents who discussed a proposal to reorganize. No action was taken. Wynne, 54, a forme r Hinds Community College trustee from Florcm:e, sai(l his annual salary is between $50,000 nnd $!)5,000 !1!'1 foundalion director. . '"I ~ ~ 0:: UQW

• Wynne will remain executive director of the Community College Foundation.

By Andy Kanengiser .Clarion-Ledger Slelf Writer

George Wynne is quittingas legislative lobbyist for pres– idents of Mississippi'H two-year colleges after concerns arose about the state'!'l Community College Foundation. Presidents voted unanimously Tuesday to accept Wynne's resignation as their lobbyist, but he's staying as executive director of the Raymond-based foundation. Created in 1986, the foundation helps attract public and private dollars to the state's two-year college!'! serving 72,000 students. It receives money (rom community col– leges, t he private sector and other sources. "They make the hiring for the (1995) session- I'm not interested in doing it," Wynne said after the meeting in

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