JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A special legislative session will be held on Thursday at the request of Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.). He’s asking the Mississippi Legislature for a $350 million allocation to finalize an economic development project in Marshall County.

The only details released by Reeves have been that this 500-acre site will manufacture and distribute electric battery cells that are used in electric vehicles. Two-thousand jobs are expected to come to the state with an average salary of $66,000.

Lawmakers will be given more information on Thursday at the start of the special session.

House Minority Leader Robert Johnson (D-District 94) said he applauds the influx of jobs, but he has his reservations about the special session.

“I object to spending, just straight-out spending taxpayer’s money and giving it to a corporation. I think these processes ought to be… we ought to go through the bonding process just like we do with everything else. That’s what we should do. I want to know that Mississippians will be getting these jobs. We’re right on the Memphis border. I want to make sure. I think somebody ought to, you know, make some insistence on idea that Mississippians ought to get these jobs. What are the real facts in the case? Who are these people? Are we making a good investment? And the problem with economic development projects is we don’t get to know that information until it’s right in front of us,” Johnson said.

The special session is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.