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2019 values rise for all entities

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By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The 2019 certified property values were released this past week with all 14 entities in Montague County experiencing increases in their values.
Kim Haralson, chief appraiser of the Montague County Tax Appraisal District, said for the first time in several years there was nothing out of the ordinary in the values. Last year the massive state-wide compressor suit was looming and two years prior the high flying days of energy production had waned as minerals fell.
This year each entity saw increases that should provide each of them with a bit of additional tax revenue. Haralson said Saint Jo Independent School District, along with a small part of Nocona and Forestburg ISD will see an increase thanks in part to the $10,067,740 Grand Prix pipeline that is under construction.
The school districts of Gold-Burg, Forestburg, Montague and Saint Jo were reappraised this year.

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Bowie ISD Trustees meet on Feb. 17

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Trustees of the Bowie Independent School District will meet in regular session at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 in the board room.
The agenda is as follows:
Recognition – Emma Halfmann, career technology update
A. Information and discussion, Superintendent Blake Enlow

  1. Tarleton State University and Bowie ISD MOU regarding Distinguished High School Partnership
  2. Attendance update (illness)
  3. USAD rural development grant, Lee Robertson
  4. March board meeting date
    B. Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris
  5. Bowie ISD instructional calendar discussion for 2025-26.
    C. Campus administration reports from principals and athletic director
    Consent agenda – reports, budget amendments, tax levy adjustment and donations, plus minutes.
    Action items
    A. Consideration and possible action on 2025-26 calendar.
    B. Consider audit engagement letter with Edgin, Parkman, Fleming and Fleming for year ending Aug. 31, 2025.
    C. Consider action on Texas Association of School Board Police Update 124 that encompasses fiscal management, investment, intellectual property, employee standards of conduct, curriculum design, gifted and talented and student welfare.
    Closed session
    Bowie ISD administrator contract
    Superintendent formative evaluation
    Open Session
    Consideration and action on administrator contracts.
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Crack in line halts water

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City of Bowie crews braved the cold to repair a broken eight-inch water line at Riley and Strong Friday morning. A message went out from the city that water service in the area of Strong, Riley and Hutchinson will be impacted for two to four hours as crews repaired a line. (News photo by Barbara Green)

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Election poll books decertified

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Montague County is one of more than 60 Texas counties that find themselves waiting to see if issues with electronic software can be repaired and certified by the Texas Secretary of State in time for the May elections.
Back in mid-December the Secretary of State decertified the poll books from Elections Systems and Software after problems arose during the November general election in Dallas County.
Ginger Wall, Montague County elections administrator, said she received a letter from the secretary of state on Dec. 23, 2024 explaining the decertification of the ES&S pollbooks.
Wall said she then was contacted by the vendor that indicated they would be submitting a new version for certification testing in March.

Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.

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