SCHOOL NEWS
NCTC-Bowie, Bowie High plan open house Monday
There will be an open house at the Bowie High School Ag. Building from 5 to 7 p.m. on July 31 to showcase the new machinery that will be available for students to use in the new welding classes offered through North Central Texas College.
Classes are being offered at the high school campus on machinery that will eventually be relocated to the new NCTC Industrial Technology Building that is under construction at the Bowie campus. The building has a March 2018 completion date.
Community members and prospective students are invited to see the brand new machinery that will be in the labs, as well as ask any questions about the programs or the new ITC expansion. Hot dogs and giveaways will be provided until they run out.
Danielle Wolf, career technology education dual credit coordinator, said area educators are looking forward to the new ITC, but they are are excited to offer new courses now, along with one dual-credit class now.
There will be one dual-credit course in the mornings from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Fall classes at NCTC begin on Aug. 28 and run through Dec. 15. The schedule will include special welding classes at Bowie High utilizing some of this new equipment. Open enrollment is underway weeknights at the local campus at 6 p.m.
Those with questions can call the campus at 872-4002.
Bowie school trustees began the arduous task of creating a 2024-25 budget during a lengthy workshop this week.
The board also reviewed some possible changes in the student/employee handbooks and codes of conduct.
Superintendent Blake Enlow said the board spent about two hours in discussion Monday night and began crunching numbers; however, many factors still remain unknown including state funding and local ad valorem tax revenue.
Trustees examined where the district stands for the rest of the fiscal year that ends in August. Finance Director Paula Peterson said the district is catching up on the arrival some state revenues, which she hopes will help offset the expect shortfall. The 2023-24 budget adopted with a half-million deficit, but Enlow said they hope to keep that down as much as possible.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
As the Bowie School District launches into its summer projects, several department heads offered their year-end reports to the trustees last Thursday.
Annual reports
Wayne Walker, support services director, told the board the management team for all his departments set a goal to reduce budget expenses this year and so far they are below budget projections as the school year winds down and summer projects kick off.
As of June 6, child nutrition was $235,678.46 below budget; transportation, $217,942.20 below budget and custodial $312,277.44 below budget, for an overall projected amount of $765,898.10 below budget.
“We hope to finish August 2024 under budget to help out the district in recouping some of the adopt deficit budget for 2023-24. We are projecting in the right direction to end the fiscal year,” said Walker.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie High School’s Mighty Marching Maroon Band will host a fundraiser paint party from 6-8 p.m. on June 18 in the high school cafeteria.
Cost is $30 to paint an 11 X 14 pre-traced canvas with $15 of each prepaid ticket going to the boosters. The band boosters will be providing snacks, and all supplies such as paint, brushes and canvas are provided.
Host will be Shannon Adkins of Texas Gals Creative Studio.
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