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May 9, 2024 <br />MRG Goody Solar Project, LLC <br />c/o Nexus Renewable Power <br />5160 Tennyson Pkwy, Suite 1000W, <br />Plano, Texas 75024 <br />Dear Paris City Council, <br />I am writing in support of the MRG Goody Solar Project (the "Project") being proposed southwest of <br />Paris, Texas. The project is wholly within Chisum Independent School District ("Chisum ISD"). <br />The Project will promote clean, renewable energy, create hundreds of good paying construction jobs, <br />and provide millions in additional revenue for the landowners and the local community. <br />Chisum ISD is participating in a Chapter 313 Agreement (the "Agreement") with the Project. On <br />December 12, 2022, the Chisum ISD School Board unanimously a roved, the Agreement. The <br />Agreement will provide more than $23 million dollars to Chisum ISD over the next 35 years, and nearly <br />$11 million in the first 10 years. Initially, the Agreement stated the Project would complete construction <br />in 2027, meaning Chisum ISD wouldn't receive any significant revenues until 2028. The Project <br />approached Chisum ISD to amend the Agreement in 2024, hoping to accelerate the Project timeline by <br />completing construction in 2025, allowing Chisum ISD to begin receiving significant revenues in 2025 — <br />two years earlier than originally planned. <br />This would result in substantial tax payments beginning in 2025 for the all the relevant taxing authorities. <br />The requests of the Project from the City helps ensure this accelerated timeline can be maintained by <br />conforming permitting requirements across the entire Project and providing more timing, regulatory, and <br />revenue certainty to the Project and each of Lamar County, Chisum ISD, Paris Junior College, and the City <br />of Paris. <br />Once constructed, MRG Goody Solar Prosect will be the second lar est tax a er in Chisum ISD, following <br />La Frontera Holdings' Lamar Energy Center. I respectfully request that the City Council support this <br />Project in its requests to bring these benefits to Chisum ISD's students, families, staff, and the greater <br />Paris area. <br />Kind Regards, <br />710-o"'17 ekelll"el <br />Superintendent — Chisum ISD <br />Chisum Independent School District <br />3250 Church Street, Paris, Texas 75462 903-737-2830 <br />