NEWS
Bowie Town Hall meeting Monday night
The City of Bowie will present a Mayor’s Town Hall meeting at 6 p.m. on March 27 in the Bowie Community Center at Pelham Park.
Mayor Larry Slack said all residents are invited and encouraged to attend as he reviews many pressing topics for the community.
Topics will include the city’s financial condition, revenues and expenditures, electric rates and revenues, tax rates and revenues, budgets, ambulance service and other pertinent issues.
Slack said while many residents are concerned about possible changes in ambulance services and stopping out of city runs, that is just one portion of a pressing budgetary crisis facing the city council and city.
The mayor said his goal for the meeting is provide as much information as possible to the citizens.
“My goal is to make clear to citizens what the financial status of our city is at this time. To show where we are and determine what we can afford for our community,” said Slack.
There will be a question and answer period included in the meeting.
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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