Council highlights economic development trip

BASTROP BASTROP — The recent City Council session opened with a report on Mayor Ishmael Harris’s trip to South Korea to bring economic development to the area, while budget amendments of over $400,000 were addressed. During the mid-October session, Mayor Pro-Tem John Kirkland presented Harris’s report on the South Korean economic development trip. Harris, City Manager Sylvia Carrillo and Gary Blake, chairman of the Bastrop Economic Corp., went to South Korea to participate in an economic development mission. Organized through the Korea Texas Forum’s Invest Texas delegation, they visited several companies including manufacturing, technology, biotechnology and more, to see if those industries might be a good fit for Bastrop. “We have an example of why this matters already in Bastrop in our industrial park. LS Electric is a major South Korean company that has invested in our industrial park, bringing manufacturing operations and good-paying jobs to our community.

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