NEWS
Bowie ISD keeps $1.22 tax rate
By BARBARA GREEN
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Bowie School Trustees approved a 2017-18 budget will retain the same tax rate as 2016 and expenditures that are less than two percent higher than the prior year’s budget.
On the last day of August the board met for a final public hearing on the budget and proposed tax rate, followed by adoption of both, plus year-end budget amendments.
The 2017 tax rate will be $1.22 per $100 in property value. Within that rate $1.04 goes to maintenance and operation, while .18 cents goes to debt service.
BISD’s certified values declined slightly this year due to new homestead exemptions totaling $855,404,103, compared to $898,261,388 last year.
Read the full story on the budget in your mid-week News.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
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)
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