NEWS
City of Bowie receives draft budget proposal
By BARBARA GREEN
The City of Bowie will begin hammering out its 2016-17 budget which has an estimated $18.2 million in operational expenses.
City Manager Ricky Tow made the draft budget presentation to the city council Tuesday as required by the charter. The proposal did not include the 2016 certified values, which arrived late Tuesday afternoon.
A public hearing on a proposed budget was set for Aug. 2 during the regular council meeting.
Councilors will meet at 6 p.m. on July 25 for a budget workshop. Mayor Larry Slack said “we have got a lot of work to do and a lot of it won’t be pleasant.”
Read the full story on the budget presentation, along with a budget workshop with the Bowie Economic Development Corporation and the 4B Sales Tax Corporation in the weekend News.
Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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