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611 <br /> <br /> Minutes of the PEDC <br /> April 11, 2001 <br />-- Page 3 <br /> <br /> Mr. Vest said regarding the advertising campaign, they have had 129 <br /> responses. They have had three prospects that came through direct contact <br /> because of their efforts. One of those came through the website, and <br /> another prospect came from the California campaign, which is a company <br /> they are still working with. <br /> <br /> Mr. Vest said he has been very active in the legislative matters and gave the <br /> Board a summary of the Economic Development activity in legislature. Mr. <br /> Vest advised that there have been quite a few bills introduced that would <br /> affect the Economic Development sales tax. Mr. Vest informed the Board <br /> that he went to Austin last week and testified before the House of Economic <br /> Development Committee. He said there were four bills and he testified for <br /> two of the bills and against two bills. One of the bills was Mark Homer's <br /> bill, House Bill 282, which relates to the sale of assets of certain economic <br /> development corporations. Mr. Vest advised that they tried to come up <br /> with a way to address this bill where it could be specific, but they could not <br /> come up with a way to make it palatable to the Economic Developers <br /> throughout the state. Mr. Vest said that Mr. Homer asked the committee <br /> to leave it pending. He also testified for House Bill 3178 relating to the <br /> requirement that certain persons associated with development corporations <br /> complete a training seminar on the operation and administration of <br /> development corporations. Mr. Vest advised that this bill is going to <br /> require that City Administrators, County Clerks, along with Executive <br /> Directors of Economic Development Corporations to attend a training <br /> seminar at least once every 24 months. Mr. Vest said this bill was left <br /> pending and the committee recommended that Mr. Jim Solis clean the bill <br /> up and refer it to the House Floor, so it will not be coming back to the <br /> committee. One of the things Mr. Solis cleared up in the bill was that the <br /> training would be provided by the Texas Department of Economic <br /> Development and their argument on that was that the Texas Department <br /> of Economic Development does not have the expertise to provide this <br /> training, so Mr. Solis amended the bill to reflect that the department could <br /> contract the training out, which will probably be contracted out to the <br /> <br /> <br />