City of Kissimmee Pension Funds

City of Kissimmee Pension Funds

The City of Kissimmee Pension Funds operate as a consolidated public retirement system for employees of the central Florida municipality. Three distinct plans sit under the umbrella: the General Employees' Retirement Plan, the Municipal Police Officers' Retirement Plan, and the Municipal Firefighters' Retirement Plan. Each maintains its own board of trustees, with the Toho Water Authority participating as an employer in the general employees' plan. Pension Administrator Linda Gomez and Director of Finance Tavia Ritchie handle day-to-day oversight. The portfolio spans a broad investment mandate that includes buyout, growth equity, mezzanine, and a venture program covering seed, early-stage, startup, and late-stage opportunities. The fund also allocates through fund-of-funds structures. Detailed public reporting on specific portfolio companies is limited, though the strategy reflects the diversified, multi-asset approach common among small and mid-sized municipal pension plans in Florida. The fund is a member of the Florida Public Pension Trustees Association, which provides trustee education and advocacy for public plans across the state. The system manages approximately $253 million in total assets, making it a modestly sized plan by state standards. Kissimmee's location near Orlando places it within a growing metropolitan corridor, and the pension funds serve public-safety personnel alongside general city employees. Wilson Munoz chairs the police officers' retirement board, reflecting the plan's embedded governance within the city's public-safety infrastructure. The most notable structural feature is the tripartite board arrangement: each occupational group governs its own trust, creating distinct fiduciary paths within a single municipal system. This architecture gives police and fire personnel direct representation on the bodies that oversee their retirement assets, a governance model that separates the City of Kissimmee Pension Funds from single-board municipal plans elsewhere.