NEWS
Saint Jo City Council to consider EMS billing
Saint Jo Fire Chief Scott Thomas and emergency medical services will be front and center at the Aug. 9 city council meeting.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Saint Jo Civic Center (101 E. Boggess Street).
The council will consider creating a new city ordinance to allow billing for the Saint Jo Volunteer Fire/EMS Department.
Thomas is then expected to update the council on the selection of a billing company.
There also will be a confirmation ceremony for Saint Jo volunteer fire/EMS officers.
Councilors will discuss a new health and sanitation ordinance and aa water system agreement between CareFlite and Saint Jo.
The 2015-16 financial audit will be approved, and the calling and ordering of the 2017 general election.
Three places are up, Paul Mouring, Bryan Wolf and Stephanie West. Mouring also has been serving as Saint Jo’s mayor pro tem.
The council will act on the approval of Doyle Cook and John Sickles to the Saint Jo Economic Development 4A Board.
Resident Jack Dunn has asked to place a manufactured home at 815 W. Crump.
Two upcoming events will be discussed – Ladies Night Out and the Boho Saint Jo Fall Show.
There will be citizen’s comments, and action on minutes from the prior meetings, financial statements and bills.
Reports from the police, fire, public works and municipal court judge wrap up the meeting agenda.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
No action was taken on a legal issue after members of the Bowie City Council met in a called closed session at 4 p.m. on July 12.
City Secretary Sandy Page said the council met for almost one hour for “consultation with attorney – Midwest Waste Services LLC vs. City of Bowie.
This lawsuit goes back to August 2019 when Midwest sued the city for its action requiring those who receive city water outside the city limits to use the designated waste collector, which is Waste Connections. This was shortly after the city signed a new long-term contract with WC.
The suit was dismissed in June 2020 on two points in the suit, but City Manager Bert Cunningham said a third point remained in mediation.
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