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Get ready to save during tax-free weekend.
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You won’t see any of the parties, cakes or balloons usually associated with anniversaries as the Texas Sales Tax Holiday celebrates its 20th anniversary Aug. 9-11 — just the annual ringing of cash registers and clacking of fingers on keyboards.
Texans will be taking advantage of the state’s three-day suspension of state and local sales taxes on qualifying clothing, footwear and school supplies priced below $100 in stores and online.
Learn how this holiday has helped Texans save more than $1.3 billion in state and local taxes in the past two decades in the latest Line Items story from Fiscal Notes.
During this annual sales tax holiday, you can buy most clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks (sold for less than $100) tax free from a Texas store or from an online or catalog seller doing business in Texas. In most cases, you do not need to give the seller an exemption certificate to buy qualifying items tax free.
This year’s sales tax holiday begins Friday, Aug. 9, and goes through midnight Sunday, Aug. 11.
The sales tax exemption applies only to qualifying items you
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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
- Tarleton State University and Bowie ISD MOU regarding Distinguished High School Partnership
- Attendance update (illness)
- USAD rural development grant, Lee Robertson
- March board meeting date
B. Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris - 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.
NEWS
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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