Texas cities and counties can enter economic development agreements under Chapter 380 and Chapter 381. Almost nobody asks, mostly because nobody knows what to send. Answer a few questions and this builds the one-page proposal an economic development office can actually act on.
Three questions. These conversations are built around a project, so this checks you have one before you spend ten minutes here.
1. Are you planning to add jobs, invest in a building or equipment, or move locations in the next 24 months?
2. Will the project keep or create jobs inside a specific Texas city or county?
3. Do you have a rough dollar figure for what you would invest?
Only the business name and the project description are required. Leave anything else blank and the page still builds. Rough figures are fine, and cities expect them to firm up later.
Legal entity name if you have it handy.
Cities use Chapter 380.
Counties use Chapter 381, and you can ask each separately.
One or two sentences. A new building, a line expansion, a second location.
Rough is fine. Cities care about the order of magnitude.
Jobs that stay in the city because of this.
Number plus the kind of work.
The single number cities weigh most heavily.
When you start, and when you would be operating.
Tap any that fit, then add detail. If you are not sure, "open to what fits" is a perfectly good ask.
Whoever the city should call.
One line is enough.
Read it once in your own voice, change anything that does not sound like you, then print it or copy it into an email.
Every Chapter 380 and 381 agreement in Texas is filed in a public database. Ten minutes in it now tells you what your own city has already paid for, and what kind of project got their attention, so you know what to build toward. Come back when a project is on the horizon and this will write the page in about five minutes.
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