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(Updated 01-10-2022) <br />POLICY STATEMENT <br />CRITERIA AND GUIDELINES FOR TAX ABATEMENT <br />..... ........ W.... _ . ......- _ - <br />made available by one employer and added together to total 40 hours per week. For <br />example, fourteen (14) part-time jobs made available by one employer where all such part- <br />time jobs added together require a total of 380 hours of work per week (but no such part- <br />time job requires 40 hours of work or more per week), will equal nine and one-half (9.5) <br />FTE jobs (380 hours divided by 40 hours per week equals 9.5). <br />3 FTE jobs do not re ire the employ p to receive benefits from the eruj)1oyer m... <br />The <br />lacement <br />d upgrading <br />f existing facilities, which increases the <br />Modernization 1 <br />output; updates the tecbnology, or sbstantially lowers the unit cost of operation. Modernizatione <br />may result from the construction, alteration or installation of buildings, structures, fixed <br />machinery or equipment, but shall not be for the purpose of reconditioning, refurbishing, <br />Frei )aHILIg, or deferred maintenance. _ -•__-- __ <br />Personal Pro Machinery, i mertt, tools, shelving or materials eligible under applicable law w for tax I <br />abatemenJ Perry �' ..•..._., which can be Pp <br />Pro -_. _Real <br />Property or Personal Property <br />ed facrht�r .._._ ._.__.� <br />_ defined herein that is eligible for tax abatement. <br />Real Property The land within an Enterprise Zone o a Reinvestm <br />p rty ent Zone, together with all improvements <br />and cted or otherwise situated thereon <br />constructed _� _— -. , . _ _, <br />Tax Abatement I The Tax fixtures <br />Advisory Committee will be convened from time to time by the Paris <br />Advisory Committee Economic Development Corporation to study, review and recommend tax abatements to the <br />applicable Taxing Jurisdictions in the City of Paris and Lamar County, Texas. The Tax <br />Abatement Advisory Committee will be composed of one person from each of the Taxing <br />Jurisdictions: the City of Paris (the City Manager or designee), the County of Lamar (the <br />County Judge or designee), Paris Junior College (the President or designee), the Chief <br />Appraiser of the Lamar County Appraisal District, and the Executive Director of the Paris <br />Economic Development Corporation. Recommendations from the Tax Abatement Advisory <br />Committee shall be decided by majority vote of the representatives from the three taxing I' <br />entities referenced above. ] <br />