NOTICE
JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
REGULAR MEETING
TRANSPORTATION BUILDING
305 E. AUSTIN ST / JEFFERSON / TEXAS
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 @ 5:30 pm
Notice is hereby given that a Regular Meeting of the Jefferson Economic Development Corporation will be held on March 12, 2024, at 5:30 pm at the Transportation Building located at 305 E Austin St., Jefferson, Texas, at which time the subjects to be discussed or considered or upon which any formal action may be taken are as listed below. Items do not have to be taken in the order shown on the meeting notice. Unless removed from the Consent Agenda, items identified with the Consent Agenda will be acted on at one time.
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Invocation
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Welcome/Introduction of Guests and Visitors
Public Comments – Speakers must sign up in advance and limit their comments or conversation to 3 minutes. Jefferson Economic Development Corporation Members may ask questions but shall not discuss items that are not on the agenda. For items not on the agenda, a person may add an item to a future Jefferson Economic Development Corporation Agenda by contacting a JEDCO board member a minimum of 5 days prior to a Meeting.
5. PRESENTATIONS
a. Lana Niemann on behalf of KLA Investing, LLC
6. CONSENT AGENDA (JEDCO reserves the right to remove items from the Consent Agenda and consider and/or approve individually).
a. Consider and/or approve financial report for February, 2024.
b. Consider and/or approve minutes for the February 13, 2024, meeting.
7. DISCUSSION / CONSIDERATION / ACTION ITEMS
a. Discussion/Consideration/Action on request from City of Jefferson to provide assistance in funding up to $600,000.00 for Polk Street Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation and Owens Street Force Main projects and related support costs;
b. Discussion/Consideration/Action on request from Marion County Community Center for grant funding for replacement of main sewer line and removal of tree from community center premises;
c. Discussion/Consideration/Action on refund to the City of Jefferson in the amount of
$23,840.66 for overpayment of sales tax rebate for period ending March 7, 2023
8. EXECUTIVE SESSION
The Jefferson Economic Development Corporation reserves the right to adjourn into Executive Session at any time during this meeting to discuss any matters listed above or below, as authorized by the following sections of the Texas Government Code:
a. Section 551.072 – Deliberations regarding Real Property
b. Section 551.087 – Deliberations regarding Economic Development Negotiations
c. Reconvene into Regular Session, pursuant to Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, to take any action necessary regarding the executive session.
9. CONSIDERATION/ACTION – FUTURE MEETINGS OR WORKSHOP
10. ADJOURNMENT
Certificate of Posting
The undersigned does hereby certify that this Notice of Meeting of the Jefferson Economic Development Corporation was posted at City Hall, 102 North Polk Street, Jefferson, TX at a place readily accessible to the general public at all times, on the 8th day of March, 2024, at 5 :00 pm, and remained so posted for at least 72 continuous hours preceding the scheduled time of said meeting.
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James A. Parsons
President
Jefferson Economic Development Corporation
ATTENDANCE BY OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICIALS: It is anticipated that members of the City Council, or other city board, commissions and/or committees may attend the meeting in numbers that may constitute a quorum of the other city boards, commissions and/or committees. Notice is hereby given that the meeting, to the extent required by law, is also noticed as a meeting of the other boards, commissions and/or committees of the City, whose members may be in attendance. The members of the boards, commissions and/or committees may participate in discussions on the same items listed on the agenda which occur at the meeting, but no action will be taken by such in attendance unless such item and action is specifically provided for on an agenda for that board, commission, or committee subject to the Texas Open Meetings Act.