2017-037 - Approving a Tax Abatement Agreement between the City of Paris and Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC relating a new Plum Organics Line

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IV. Consideration (Jobs) 4.1 OWNER agrees that it will employ no fewer than forty (40) and up to forty-nine (49) full-time employees to operate the PLUM ORGANICS LINE to be conducted at the PROPERTY, provided, however, that this number of employees may vary one way or another by a few employees up to the point the PLUM ORGANICS LINE commences operation. OWNER agrees to employ no fewer than forty (40) full-time employees on the PLUM ORGANICS LINE by January 1, 2019 and to retain said forty (40) full-time employees for the duration of this AGREEMENT. 4.2 OWNER agrees to retain sufficient employment levels to efficiently operate and support its overall plant operations during the term of this AGREEMENT. VI. Default 5.1 In the event that (a) the IMPROVEMENTS for which an abatement has been granted are not completed in accordance with this AGREEMENT or the expenditure for the IMPROVEMENTS does not meet the amount required herein; or (b) OWNER allows its ad valorem taxes owed the CITY to become delinquent and fails to timely and properly follow the legal procedures for protest or contest of any such ad valorem taxes; or (c) OWNER materially breaches any of the other terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT, then this AGREEMENT shall be in default. In the event the OWNER defaults in its performance of either (a), (b) or (c) above, the CITY shall give the OWNER written notice of such default and if the OWNER has not cured such default within sixty (60) days of said written notice, this AGREEMENT may be modified or terminated by the CITY. Notice shall be in accordance with paragraph 13.3. As liquidated damages in the event of default, and in accordance with the requirements of Section 312.205 (a)(4) of the Property Tax Code of the State of Texas, all taxes which otherwise would have been paid to the CITY without the benefit of abatement, together with interest to be charged at the statutory rate for delinquent taxes as determined by Section 33.01 of the Property Tax Code of the State of Texas, with all penalties permitted by the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act and the Property Tax Code of the State of Texas, shall be recaptured and will become a debt to the CITY and shall be due, owing, and paid to the CITY within sixty (60) days of the expiration of the above-mentioned applicable cure period as the sole remedy of the CITY, subject to any and all lawful offsets, settlements, deductions, or credits to which OWNER may be entitled. The parties acknowledge that actual damages in the event of default and termination would be speculative and difficult to determine. VI. Real and Personal Property Tax Abatement 6.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT, and subject to the rights and holders of any outstanding bonds of the CITY, a portion of ad valorem Property taxes from the PROPERTY otherwise owed to the CITY shall be abated as estimated in the 4