SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie School Trustees to finalize budget, tax rate
Bowie School Trustees will meet in an early morning session Thursday to finalize the proposed tax rate and budget for 2017-2018.
The board will meet at 7 a.m. Thursday for a public hearing on the budget and proposed tax rate.
After that hearing a second meeting will be opened at 7:15 a.m.
During this meeting the board will amend the 2016-17 school budget, approve the fund balance for district needs, consider the 2017-18 salary schedules, adopt the budget and tax rate.
The district is looking at a proposed budget of about $14.5 million for expenses. During an Aug. 21 workshop, the salary schedules, stipends and health insurance changes were approved.
Expenditures for the new budget are only .28 percent higher than the previous year with revenues projected to come in at 7.27 percent higher.
Based on those figures the district will have an anticipated deficit of about $525,604, which is much less than the $1.5 million expected at the end of the present budget year.
There are no changes to the 2017 tax rate as the district will remain at $1.22 per $100 in property value. The rate breaks down into $1.04 for maintenance and operation, with .18 cents for debt service.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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