| Description: |
| Workforce Solutions (Recruitment and Training Assistance): Workforce Solutions (WS) has a wide variety of business resources available to current and prospective employers in the Katy Area. These include: (a) pre-screening services of recruiting, screening and referring qualified applicants for job openings and customizing these services to meet individual employers’ needs; (b) providing space for interviewing and employer administered testing, and scheduling and coordinating tests and orientations at WS facilities or at the facility of employer; (c) providing quarterly onsite job fairs and customized job fairs for immediate employer needs; and (d) listing and maintaining job orders for companies in the local and national America's Job Bank and America's Workforce Network. Contact Susan Dixon for more information at (713) 817-0344 or susan.dixon@wrksolutions.com. |
| Economic Development and Diversification In-State Tuition for Employees: The Economic Development and Diversification In-state Tuition incentive may be offered to qualified businesses that are in the decision-making process to relocate or expand their operations into Texas. The incentive allows employees and family members of the qualified businesses to pay in-state tuition fees if the individual files with a Texas institution of higher education. Without this incentive designation, a student must reside in Texas for a 12-month period to be entitled to pay the tuition fees of a Texas resident. |
| Permitting Assistance – State of Texas: TCEQ and the Office of the Governor Texas EDT have established a relationship to assist companies, which may experience unwarranted delays in their environmental permitting process that could affect job creation and have a high economic impact. |
| Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC): The Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center was designed to help Texas’ small manufacturing companies remain competitive in the ever-changing global marketplace. The TMAC Center provides technical assistance at a discounted rate for process improvements, environmental regulations upgrades and changes in technology and the market place. |