Wooster City Council approved the same request Monday.
Commissioners have the final say on abatement proposals.
The added inventory will come from other manufacturing facilities, he said, to make the local site a larger distribution warehouse. The tax break will apply to any new construction and equipment, not to any added inventory or existing property. Barnard said 80 percent of the company's employees live in the county and 45 percent of them live in Wooster. He said generations of families have found employment at the snack food factory. Frito-Lay has occupied the plant for more than 35 years, he said, and the facility has been manufacturing potato chips for 53 years.