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intended to pay Hearne Street out of cash reserve. President Wall called for the Director's report. Mr. Vest showed the Board a postcard regarding Paris and advised that they have mailed about 20,000 of them. He said most of them were mailed to people that registered at the food show that he and Erik attended. Mr. Vest said they did use the Creative Innovative Group to help with the mail. He said that they are getting a lot of calls regarding the cards. Mr. Vest said they have had two projects that they have submitted through the Governor's office. One is Project Glow, which is a meat processing company. They were looking for a site and they submitted the Industrial Park. Mr. Vest said it is a 500 job operation, but they do not know anything at this point in time. He said the other proj ect was the Proj ect PBB, which manufactures small steel tubing and is a lot smaller. He advised they submitted the Oliver Rubber Building and the Superior Building. Mr. Vest said there was another proj ect they submitted, but they were eliminated on transportation. Our proposal was not accepted. President Wall informed the PEDC Board that they are having a reception for Bobby Littlefield, the new District Engineer for TxDOT, to introduce him to the public. They set a date and announced it at the Chamber yesterday as January 15, 2004, but as of today, they have moved it forward to Tuesday, January 13, 2004, from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. at the Chamber office. He advised that they will be inviting multi-counties; the whole area is coming in and Mr. Littlefield is going to have all of his area engineers coming in from all of the nine counties. He advised that Lawrence Olson with Texas Good Roads and Commissioner Nichols will be present for the reception. President Wall advised that Commissioner Nichols is going to solicit grass-roots support for the new Federal Highway Bill and bring everyone up-to-date on how that is going. Resolution No. 2003-014, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Paris Economic Development Corporation, awarding the bids and authorizing the execution of a contract for the construction and installation of paving and drainage facilities and water and wastewater facilities at the Paris Industrial Park, was presented by City Attorney Schenk. A motion was made by Director Severson, seconded by Director Norment, for approval of the resolution. The motion carried unanimously.