NEWS
Bowie budget proposal includes $3 million option to finance building
Bowie City Manager Ricky Tow calls the 2014-15 budget proposal “conservative to tight,” but it also includes an option that could finance a new $3 million city administration building.
Council members will get their first look at the preliminary numbers when they meet in a budget workshop at 5:30 p.m. July 8 in the Bowie Community Center. As per the city charter, the official presentation of the overall budget proposal will take place at the July 15 regular meeting.
Tow called this a “maintenance year,” where they continue current operations; however, city officials also are looking at projects that need to be tackled for the future.
“It was the desire of the council to streamline from last year and they want to balance the budget as close as we could get. A big part of that is cutting down those utility transfers,” explained Tow.
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On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
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