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Regular Meeting of the City Council Jan 13, 2003 Page 4 Economic Development Council. Mr. Vest announced that the new web page is up if anyone wanted to check it out at www.paristexas.com. Mr. Vest said they have already had a lot of response to the web site and it is more user friendly. Mr. Vest said they placed two billboards on 1-30 and showed a picture of each of the billboards. Mr. Vest announced that they had 12 prospects during the year from the Texas Economic Development Corporation, and one of those developed into a prospect visit. There were 6 other %uspect" leads that they met with on possible projects. Mr. Vest said some of the projects that they did this year were Paris Custom Trailer for an expansion, Hydro-Conduit water main extension, and an EDA Application for Sara Lee to try to build a rail spur into Sara Lee. They did a wage and benefit survey and passed out a copy of the survey for the council to review. Mr. Vest said they also did a labor survey by telephone. It was done by this same company, which is the Economic Development Services out of Irving. Mr. Vest advised the Board that they did the Cox Field Airport brochure, with Tommy Haynes doing the bulk of the work on that survey. Another project they started this year was the Northwest Industrial District. He said this is going to be a major project. Mr. Vest showed a photograph before and after they started the project City Manager Malone announced that the City Council had been furnished minutes of the Paris Public Library Advisory Board, Housing Authority of the City of Paris, and Band Commission with no action being required. Resolution No. 2003-001, accepting the Texas State Library and Archives Commission Loan Star Libraries Grant in the amount of $5,862.00, requiring no matching funds from the City of Paris, was presented. A motion was made