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PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION <br />MONTHLY MEETING <br />Community Room <br />1125Bonham Street <br />Paris, Texas 75460 <br />Thursday July 21, 2016 <br />4:00 O'CLOCK P.M. <br />AGENDA <br />1. Call meeting to order — Richard Manning, Chair <br />2. Citizens' Input <br />(Persons desiring to address the Paris EDC Board must limit their presentation to no more than <br />two minutes. Unless an item is posted on the Agenda, the Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits <br />the Board from responding to any comments other than to refer the matter to a future agenda, to <br />an existing policy, or to a staff person with specific factual information. Claims against the <br />Paris EDC, Board Members or employees are not appropriate for citizens' input.) <br />3. Welcome of New Board Member. <br />4. Election of Officers. <br />5. Discuss and possibly approve Minutes of the June 23, 2016, Monthly Meeting and the June 30, <br />2016, Special Meeting. <br />6. Discuss and possibly approve June 2016 Financials. <br />7. Discuss and possibly approve the PEDC matching a $25,000 High Demand Job Training grant <br />with Paris Junior College receiving the funding. The grant application is submitted through the <br />Northeast Texas Workforce Board. <br />8. Discuss and possibly approve Proposed 2016 -2017 Budget. <br />9. Executive Director's Monthly Report. <br />10. Convene into Executive Session: <br />a) Pursuant to Section 551.087 of the Texas Government Code to discuss or <br />deliberate: 1) Commercial or Financial information that the governmental body <br />has received from a business prospect that the governmental body seeks to have <br />locate, stay or expand in or near the territory of the governmental body and with <br />which the governmental body is conducting economic development negotiations, <br />or 2) to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a local business. <br />(1) Kimberly Clark <br />