13-C PEDC (12/17/03)MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PARIS ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
DECEMBER 17, 2003
The Paris Economic Development Corporation met in regular session on Thursday,
December 17, 2003, 4:00 P.M., at Paris Junior College, Bobby R. Walters Applied
Technology Building, Room 1206, 2400 Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas. President
Don Wall called the meeting to order with the following Directors present: Sims
Norment, Richard Severson, and Rodney Bass. Also, present were Executive
Director Gary Vest, City Manager Michael E. Malone, City Attorney Larry W.
Schenk, and City Clerk Mattie Cunningham.
President Wall called for the approval of the minutes from the previous meetings
of November 19, 2003. A motion was made by Director Norment, seconded by
Director Bass, for approval of the minutes as presented. The motion carried
unanimously.
President Wall called for the Financial Report from Gene Anderson, Director of
Finance for the City of Paris.
Mr. Anderson advised that the Board had been furnished with an updated sales tax
report and reminded the board that the collection for December will not be known
until February. He pointed out that the first two months of the year, the sales tax
collection was down, but in December it was up. He said compared to this time last
year they were down about three thousand.
Mr. Anderson said that the second page is the November cash flow report and there
is not anything out of the ordinary. Mr. Anderson pointed out that the line item for
New Industry Project of $9,089.00 were three different payments related to EPA
testing of property, Young Title, and gravel or some type dirt work. He said that
the other expenditures were routine.
President Wall asked if PEDC was going to award the bid for the Industrial Park or
are they going to wait? Will they drawn down their loan as they need the money
or take it all at once, or pay from cash on hand before they touch that money? Mr.
Vest said they have paid everything they could as they go, but they are looking at
three months before they have their first draw.
Mr. Vest said the other thing that will come into play is concrete because they
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.
Resolution No. 2003-015, approving and adopting bylaws for the Paris Industrial
Park Property Owners Association, was presented by City Attorney Schenk.
A motion was made by Director Bass, seconded by Director Severson, for approval
of the resolution. The motion carried unanimously.
Resolution No. 2003-016, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Paris
Economic Development Corporation approving and adopting development
covenants for the Paris Industrial Park, was presented by City Attorney Schenk.
A motion was made by Director Norment, seconded by Director Severson, for
approval of the resolution. The motion carried unanimously.
Mr. Vest advised the Board that the preliminary plat for Paris Industrial Park had
been provided with the agenda and filed with the City of Paris and it will be
considered by the Planning and Zoning Commission on January 5, 2004, and then
presented for approval by the City Council on January 12, 2004.
Chairman Wall said they should have placed that as a condition in Agenda Item SA.
Chairman Wall called for an amendment to adoption subj ect to approval by the
Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council.
After discussion, a motion was made by Director Severson to amend the motion
for Agenda Item No. 5 to include approval of the resolution subj ect to the approval
of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council. The motion was
seconded by Director Bass and carried unanimously.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
DON WALL, PRESIDENT
ATTEST:
MATTIE CUNNINGHAM, CITY CLERK