Leon Hays

Executive Director of the Prentiss County Development Association

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@GlennMcCJr @NCAABaseball @murraystateuniv @RacersBaseball Need another reason to pull for this underdog? There’s a Booneville guy on their roster. Let’s keep it going @JacksonMcCoy23 !

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Hey @netflix give @elonmusk a call and just stream #TysonvsPaul on @X platform

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Hey @elonmusk a great place to start of government efficiency would be the @USPS. Rural America would be very appreciative.

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@GaryChandler Tired of this! My neighborhood hasn’t changed much in a week.

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Area athletes showing out! 4/8 players mentioned are from Prentiss County, Ms.

[Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal @DJournalnow]

Here are midseason #djpreps Basketball Player of the Year frontrunners, according to @bradlocke ⤵️ https://t.co/mxQtbiiDH8

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

What if #Mississippi passed a law that required $0.50 of every #NIL $1 raised for in-state public universities had to go to offset tuition for the entire student body? #Priorities

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Excited to welcome OnDemand Specialty Vehicles to Prentiss County, MS!

[Mississippi Development Authority @mdaworks]

🚨BREAKING: OnDemand Specialty Vehicles, a subsidiary of Priority OnDemand, is bringing emergency medical transportation solutions to Jumpertown. 🚑 Thank you, OnDemand, for choosing #MightyMS! 🌟 Learn more: https://t.co/NvHVyZi77r #EconDev @GoPrentiss

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@ReedTimmerAccu @LordeVitucci I'm thinking an inexpensive drone with just enough payload...

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Happy #MFGDay23 to the awesome team @newwaytrucks

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

PCDA Annual Banquet=good food+ good entertainment +Doug "Moose" Mansell Award. Congrats to Mike Kesler! 20+yrs involved with #EconDev in Prentiss Co,MS and sees its impact on quality of life for local residents. An honor well deserved! #GoPrentiss

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Congratulations to @suzybowmanMS & @CaseKnight for being selected to the @ARCgov Leadership Institute. You 2 are already great leaders in MS. Enjoy ALI!

[Appalachian Regional Commission @ARCgov]

@mySWVA @InvestAppalach @YWCAWheeling For our #Appalachia Envisioned Roadshow finale, @GayleManchin announced the Appalachian Leadership Institute Class of 2023-2024! 🎉

Congrats to our new fellows, who will spend the next nine months traveling, connecting, & skill-building across the region! https://t.co/hF0S9FSQyw

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Would love to hear @BHSDevils1 Band take this one on!

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@BHSDevilFB Are peaches in?

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Thanks @stoolpresidente ! Many childhood memories at this small MS Delta diner. Tracy is well deserving and can’t wait until this landmark is rebuilt.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

1st @BrickWatchCo Small Biz grant has been given out. $20k to Chuck’s Dairy Bar in Rolling Fork, Miss. Chuck's was destroyed by a tornado in Mar & has been part of Delta since 1960s. $ will go towards rebuilding store. Thank you @DestroyerMintzy

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@MarshallRamsey @MississippiDOT Certainly a game changer. Prentiss County is blessed to have a section of US Hwy 45 dedicated in name to former MS Speaker of the House Billy McCoy. The Speaker was a driving force for the ‘87 Highway project. MS is better for it.
#GoPrentiss

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@MitchellK82 @gardenandgun @bassmaster Nope, but in years past it was entirely possible to go to the Lo Sto and not go to the lake. 😂

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

@MitchellK82 @gardenandgun @bassmaster Did you make a stop at the Lo Sto?

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Excited to see Prentiss County receive delivery of its very own @newwaytrucks Cobra from @secequipment Proud manufacturing product of Prentiss Co, MS to be used locally. #ManufacturedinMS @bubbapounds @mdaworks

[Leon Hays @LeonHays]

Way to go @HailState

[Tony Altimore @TJAltimore]

PAYING BACK THEIR ATHLETIC PROFITS:
Only 9 schools did...

There are tons of ways to measure athletic dept. profitability, but one metric matters more than any other in the regular business world:

Did you pay out profits or not?

In the college sports world, only nine (public) schools met this threshold in FY 2022, and I think it's pretty impressive and worthy of a shout-out!

These were the ONLY nine schools who actually reported transferring athletic profits BACK to their central campus coffers in the most recent @KnightAthletics data:

Granted, there are a million ways to look at subsidies and transfer pricing charges flying in both directions of the accounting books, but the actual transfer & return of athletic profits from the athletic dept. back to central campus budgets is worth a salute to these nine schools and their well-run athletic departments!

[Mississippi Development Authority @mdaworks]

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#MightyMS #EconDev