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Minutes of Special Meeting PEDC October 17, 2001 ~ Page 4 Mr. Vest told the Board that the Texas Economic Development Council had their annual conference in Dallas from September 19' through the 21", and he and Eric attended that meeting. They also had a meeting with the Economic Development of Irving, Texas. Mr. Vest said that in 1998 the PEDC did a wage and benefit survey along with a labor survey and last year they talked about doing another. The Board instructed him to go out and get bids from a number of firms before they hiring this company to do this service. He said that as it turned out, they were trying to get regional service because they could get a regional labor survey at a considerably lower cost if they did it themselves. After he proposed the contract to the Board, Greenville, Commerce, and Sulphur Springs all decided not to do the survey. Mr. Vest said they had a meeting on October 1, 2001, with Economic Development Services and it looked as if the company has Greenville, Commerce, and Sulphur Springs lined up to do a labor survey along with a wage and benefit survey. Mr. Vest advised that the labor survey will cost approximately $10,000.00 and the wage and benefit survey will cost approximately $4,500.00. Mr. Vest pointed out that there is $15,000.00 budgeted forthe surveys. It was the consensus ofthe Board to go forward with the surveys. Mr. Vest reported that the Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Council is a new Council that has been formed to push for highway development in the region which includes Lamar, Delta, Hopkins, and Hunt Counties. He said there are two board members from each county along with one at-large, who is Jack Gray from Texas A& M Commerce. He said they have adopted a program of trying ' to get I-30 designated as a master corridor, Highway 24 four lane completed through Delta County, and getting Highway 19 as a super two lane. Mr. Vest furnished the Board Members with brochures regarding Proposition 15, which will allow TxDOT to issue bonds to finance highway construction. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.