Ex-lawmaker to run state job training

Friday, July 12, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Former Las Vegas Assemblyman Roger Bremner, 58, has been named administrator of the state Job Training Office, succeeding Barbara Weinberg who quit in a disagreement with her boss.

Bremner, who served six terms in the Assembly from 1982 to 1984, will head a program that gets about $15 million a year to provide job skill training to disadvantaged youth and adults, dislocated and older workers, plus military veterans.

It contracts with local agencies, such as Nevada Business Service in Las Vegas, to do the training.

The appointment was announced Thursday by Carol Jackson, director of the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. She said Bremner had extensive experience in government and in lobbying.

After Bremner left the Legislature, he worked among his former colleagues as a lobbyist and also ran an insurance business. Since then he worked for the State Industrial Insurance System and most recently was marketing officer for the state Division of Employment Security.

The job pays $49,269.

Weinberg resigned earlier this year in a undisclosed disagreement with Jackson.

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