Hearing rescheduled

Jack County Commissioners Court will have to reschedule a public hearing to designate a reinvestment zone and consider a tax abatement agreement  for C1 Jack I, better known as CyrusOne.

The hearing originally scheduled for Monday, June 8 was taken off the agenda when the court realized it had not fulfilled its statutory obligations to notify the public.

While the notice was filed and published to the county’s website Friday, May 8, it was never published in the county’s newspaper of record, Jacksboro Herald-Gazette.

Texas Local Government Code requires the county to publish the notice in the newspaper no less than 30 days before the date set for the public hearing.

Jack County Judge Keith Umphress said Friday, May 29 the county’s tax consultant missed the deadline to publish the notice and the hearing would be rescheduled for a later date.

According to the commissioners court agenda posted for the Monday, June 8 regular meeting, commissioners will vote to confirm rescheduling the public hearing to designate a reinvestment zone and consider a tax abatement agreement to Monday, July 27.

CyrusOne, operating locally as C1 Jack I, submitted a tax abatement application to the court in January for a proposed data center campus in southeastern Jack County, near the Jack/Wise County line.

County officials said the data center project had the potential to double the county’s property tax revenue, but many local residents remained firm that the tradeoff should not come at the cost of peace of mind.

CyrusOne representatives held a community meeting in Perrin last week where locals sought answers to questions about water usage, wastewater disposal, impact to wildlife and environment, noise levels, construction, roadway safety and more.