April 29, 2024 at 11:30 AM - Regular Meeting

I. Call to Order

II. The Board will convene in closed session in the Patman Room at the Truman Arnold Student Center pursuant to one or more of the following sections of Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code:

• Section 551.071 – Private Consultation with the Board’s attorney.
• Section 551.072 – Discussing or deliberating purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property.
• Section 551.073 – Discussing or deliberating negotiated contract for prospective gift or donation to the college.
• Section 551.074 – Discussing or deliberating appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee.
• Section 551.076 – Discussing or deliberating the deployment or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices.
• Section 551.084 – Investigation; exclusion of witness from a hearing during examination of another witness.
• Section 551.087 – Discussing economic development negotiations or offer of financial or other incentive to business prospects.
• Section 551.088 – Deliberation regarding test item or information related to a test item pertaining to license or certification test administered by the college.

The Board of Trustees will reconvene in open session to take any final action, decision, or vote on a matter deliberated in closed session.

III. Reconvene to Open Session

IV. Pledge of Allegiance

V. Open Forum

VI. Consideration and take action to approve the consent agenda

VI.A. Regular Meeting Minutes for March 25, 2024

VI.B. Consideration/Approval of Personnel Items

VII. Consideration/Approval of Tax Abatement Policy CAIA (Local) and CAIA (Exhibit)

VIII. Consideration/Approval of Tax Abatement Agreement with Braven Environmental, LLC




Tax Abatement Agreement Information Required by Texas Tax Code Section 312.207
 

1. Name of the Property Owner and Applicant for the Tax Abatement Agreement: The name of the property owner and applicant for the tax abatement agreement is BRAVEN ENVIRONMENTAL LLC.
2. Name and Location of the Reinvestment Zone: The name of the proposed reinvestment zone in which the property subject to the tax abatement will be located in the TexAmericas Center's East Campus on a currently vacant plot of land within the bounds of the former Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant inside the Hooks, TX postal service area, in unincorporated Bowie County, TX.
3. General Description of the Nature of Improvements: The tax abatement agreement includes the construction of a manufacturing facility, to be built in an area of approximately 70 acres. The facility is to be created as a manufacturing plant to convert mixed waste and hard-to-recycle plastics into input used primarily in production of new plastics.  
4. Estimated Cost of the Improvements: This is a two phased project. The estimated costs of the improvements for Phase 1 are approximately $145,000,000.00. The estimated costs for improvement for Phase 2 are approximately $205,000,000.00.

IX. Consideration/Approval of Appointment of Texarkana College Board of Trustee Member to the ArkTex Council of Governments (ATCOG) Board of Directors as a Representative for Texarkana College

X. Consideration/Approval of General Surplus Items

XI. Consideration/Approval of Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Legal Update 47

XII. Consideration/Approval of Changing the May 27, 2024, Board Meeting to May 20, 2024

XIII. College President Report (Dr. Jason Smith)

XIV. Vice President of Finance (Brad Hoover)

XV. Vice President of Instruction (Dr. Dixon Boyles)

XVI. Dean of Students (Robert Jones)

XVII. Possible Closed Session

XVIII. Adjourn: Posted: Thursday, April 25, 2024