Agreement 0003544, filed with the Texas Comptroller by Cass County, Texas.
The dated sentence above defines a term used elsewhere in the contract. It is recorded here as a definition, not as a performance obligation.
The remedy here is discretionary — the clause says it may be applied, not that it must be.
Where a deadline above has passed, no public record exists of whether it was met — not in the Comptroller’s filings, nor in the local government’s own disclosures. That is not evidence of non-compliance. Texas requires nobody to record it.
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| Field | Value & quoted source | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Granting body | Cass County, TexasCASS COUNTY, TEXAS | 1 |
| Contracting entity | Graphic Packaging International, LLCGRAPHIC PACKAGING INTERNATIONAL, LLC | 1 |
| Parent / guarantor | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Instrument | Chapter 381 Economic Development AgreementCHAPTER 381 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT | 1 |
| Governing chapter | Chapter 312, Tax Code, and Chapter 381, Local Government Codeand WHEREAS, the designation of a Relnvestment Zone under Chapter 312 of the Tax Code within the boundaries of the attached map/plat for commercial Industrial tax abatement could attract jobs and investments; | — |
| Capital investment | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Grant or incentive | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Jobs committed | eight hundred seventeen (817) full-time employees a reasonable-efforts obligation, not a fixed commitmentan employment level of eight hundred seventeen (817) full-time employees | 4 |
| Wage requirement | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Square footage | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Acreage | Not stated in the agreement | — |
| Performance deadline | December 31, 2030 defined term, not a covenantTermination Date” means December 31, 2030 | 4 |
| Expiration | December 31, 2030Termination Date” means December 31, 2030 | 4 |
| Effective date | December 2020effective on the AS ay of December 2020 | 1 |
| Signatory | Stephen R. SchergerStephen ri Seliere ev | 11 |
| Chain status | Superseded by agreement 0005640 | — |
Graphic Packaging International, LLC’s capital investment will upgrade and modernize the Texarkana paper mill. The investments will modernize the mill into a state-of-the-art facility with increased capacity. Improvements will primarily be focused on upgrading equipment, increasing capacity and reducing environmental impacts. The intended market is global. The table below details the projects that have been identified to support this project. Please note that the projects and timing are subject to change.
Agreement 0003544 is filed with the Texas Comptroller. Pull the PDF, go to the page number beside any row, and read the sentence. If a figure here does not match the document, tell me and it is corrected the same day.
Where the contract says nothing, the field is left empty rather than filled with a guess.
This is a single agreement. I have read 1,645 of the 4,428 Texas has filed, resolved which have been superseded, and recorded what each commits a company to.
Send me an entity and a county and I will tell you what is on it — quoted, page-cited, checked. Free for the first one.