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e e "(9) A prov1s1on that contract employees and part-time employees may be used to comply with the company's contractual obligation to create/retain jobs on a full-time equivalency basis for any number of jobs; provided that full-time equivalents shall only be used to satisfy the company's contractual obligation if the company maintains a minimum of 50 permanent employees who work on the project within the reinvestment zone." Sec. 66-141. The adoption of the guidelines and criteria by the City Council of the City of La Porte does not: a) limit the discretion of the City council of the City of La Porte to decide whether to enter into a specific tax abatement agreement; b) limit the discretion of the City Council of the City of La Porte to delegate to its employees the authority to determine whether or not the governing body should consider a particular application or request for tax abatement; or c) create any property, contract, or other legal right in any person to have the City Council of the City of La Porte consider or grant a specific application or request for tax abatement. Sec. 66-142. The City Council of the City of La Porte hereby establishes the policy of the City of La Porte, that tax abatement agreement applications will not be accepted for areas within the Battleground Industrial District and the Bayport Industrial District of the City of La Porte. However, as to any portion of such areas which are not within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte, Harris County Commissioners Court may establish tax abatement agreements for the benefit of itself, and taxing units other than the City of La Porte having jurisdiction over said area. section 2. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the City Council of the city of La Porte hereby authorizes City staff to entertain an application for designation of a reinvestment zone, to be designated the "PPG Industries Reinvestment Zone". The location of such zone is within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte, and is fully shown on a site plan attached hereto as Exhibit "B", and incorporated by reference herein for all purposes, and is more particularly described by metes and bounds on Exhibit "c" attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein. Such tax abatement agreement shall only apply to new investment having a 3