Company wanted to expand in Opp, hire up to 70

A proposed agreement that could have meant 70 new jobs for Opp over the next five years died for a lack of a second Monday night.

Mayor Becky Bracke presented an agreement in which the city would have provided property for a trucking company that would, in turn, build a facility on the bypass, and hire 70 people within five years.

But the proposal died on the table after Councilman Chad Jackson’s motion failed to draw a second.

“I am very disappointed that this did not go through,” Bracke said. “It would have boosted the economy and brought in more jobs.”

In the agreement, RCA Trucking, LLC, agreed that within two years of transferring the property of the new facility, it pledged to employ 10 additional employees over and above the current level, and over a course of five years, employment would increase to 70 employees.

The city would have had to transfer 16 acres of land for RCA Trucking to build their facility and extend and improve the existing roadway known as Hunter’s Drive, to facilitate access to the RCA location.