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Paris, Texas Economic Development Corporation <br />POLICY STATEMENT <br />CRITERIA AND GUIDELINES FOR TAX ABATEMENT <br />Full-time A number of part-time jobs where the hours worked in each such job is less than 32 hours <br />Equivalent per week, made available by one employer and added together. For example, sixteen <br />{FTE) ]obs (16) part-time jobs made available by one employer where all such part-time jobs added <br />together require a total of 352 hours of work per week (but no such part-time job <br />requires 32 hours of work or more per week), will equal eleven (11) FTE jobs (352 <br />hours divided by 32 hours per week equai l 1). FTE jobs do not require the employee to <br />receive benefits from the em lo er. <br />Modernization The replacement and upgrading of existing facilities, which inereases the productive <br />input or output, updates the technology, or substantially lowers the unit cost of <br />operation. Modernization may result from the construction, alteration or installaaon of <br />buildings, structures, fixed machinery or equipment, but shall not be for Yhe purpose of <br />reconditionin , refurbishin , re airin , or deferred maintenance. <br />Personal Machinery, equipment, tools, shelving or materials eligible under applicable law for tax <br />Property abatement, which can be removed from an authorized faciliry described in Section IV <br />a. <br />Pro e Real Pro e or Personal Pro e defined herein that is eli ible for tax abatement. <br />Real Property The land within an Enterprise Zone or a Reinvestment Zone, together with all <br />im rovements and fixtures constructed or otherwise situated thereon. <br />Tax Abatement The committee of persons designated from time to time by the Paris Economic <br />Committee Development Corporation to study, review and recommend tax abatement to the <br />appIicable taxing entities in the community. The Tax Abatement Committee will be <br />composed of one person from each of the City (the City Manager or desi�nee), the <br />County of Lamar (the County Judge or designee), Paris Junior College (the President or <br />designee), the Chief Appraiser of the Lamar County Appraisal District, and the <br />Executive Director of the Paris �conomic Develo ment Co oration. <br />