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Farmers Branch staff recommends careful, business-focused restart of sister‑city program
Summary
Deputy Director Darren Harris presented travel costs and a selection matrix for expanding Farmers Branch’s sister‑city program to Mexico City, Seoul or Taiwan, urging the city to proceed only when business, diplomatic and higher‑education leads justify the investment.
Darren Harris, the city’s deputy director of economic development, presented a plan to reactivate and potentially expand Farmers Branch’s sister‑city program, recommending the city move forward only when a matrix of business recruitment, diplomatic contacts and higher‑education or workforce leads are in place.
Harris told the council his office compared three candidate locations. “Looking at Mexico City, it came in at $2,088. Looking at South Korea, it came in at $5,046. And with Taiwan, it came in at $5,500,” he said, describing estimates…
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