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PEDC Board Meeting Minutes Ma,y 13, 2410 facility is needed to house the Incubator prograin. But, in order for a business to participate in the incubator program they will need the following: • Solid marketing plan with six (6) months of cash flow in bank; • Solid business plan with financial stability; and • Be in business less than 2 years and struggling. Currently, he has no idea to the number of businesses that meet this criteria or what industry may be promoted through the incubator program. e) NAACP meeting. Steve stated that he had attended the NAACP Executive Board meeting last week and would attend their regular meeting later in the day at 5:00 p.m. He stated that the NAACP Board is serious about including everyone in the community to be a part of what they are doing. Reverend James Price, President of the NAACP addressed the Board. Mr. Price stated that he was encouraged about the PEDC's participation in moving forward diversity in the community. He would like to see the PEDC make a serious effort in recruiting minority businesses to the Paris area. fl Tax Abatement history. Steve provided a spread sheet to the Board members that provided the history of awarded tax abatements from 1989 to the present. g) Business Retention and Expansion visits. Steve reported that he had perfonned Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) visits with Campbell's Soup, Turner Industries, Kimberly-Clark and Sara Lee in the past month. These are a critical piece of the work that the PEDC does. He commended Kay O'Dell for her presentation at Sara Lee. Pam Anglin stated that 30 Sara Lee employees were participating in the GED program at PJC. PJC has taken faculty to the Sara Lee facility and introduced the employees to various assistance programs that are available through PJC. Mr. Gilbert presented the Board members a spreadsheet of bids received for maintenance work needed at the Industrial Park. The mowing quote included the C-Tech building at a cost of $2,310. Steve told the Board that he would make contact with the C-Tech representative to confirm reiinbursement of this expense. Dan Smith made the motion to approve Self's Lawn Service bid of $5,400.00 for mowing, etc. of the Industrial Park which included the C-Tech building; seconded by John Wright. Motion carried. Dan Smith made the motion to approve the Sanchez Lawn Maintenance bid for repairing the ruts at dam area and removal of pond vegetation, subject to negotiating the amount and not to exceed $3,900.00; seconded by Rick Poston. Motion carried. Pike Burkhart made the motion to approve Broadcast Lawn Services bid of $528.00 for herbicide (weed control); seconded by Rick Poston. Motion carried. John Wright made the motion to approve Stephen & Sons Concrete bid of $5,534.00 for concrete street expansion joint repair; seconded by Chad Brown. Motion carried. Mr. Gilbert stated that he had contacted a TIP Strategies to conduct a Manufacturing Industry Economic Impact Study. They referred him TXP, an Austin-based consulting and data analysis firm. Steve stated that this would be an economic impact study of every facet of our community. Tangible numbers, logic and data. Especially with the scenario of losing 300 jobs at Sara Lee and potentially losing 700 jobs at Turner Industries. TXP should have a proposal to him by May 14, 2010. Steve has asked for data from Turner listing their employees by zip code (regional impact), occupational title and average wage. It was agreed that less detail the quicker the data can be provided. Also, to confirm the age of the data sets, if the data sets TXP is using is older than 2008 the data won't be relevant. Dan Smith made a motion to authorize Steve Gilbert to negotiate a contract with TXP not to exceed $10,000; seconded by Pike Burkhart. Motion carried. 2 . ~ ~1