NEWS
Bowie CM resigns to take Gladewater job
Ricky Tow
The Gladewater City Council selected Ricky Tow to be its new city manager during its Thursday night meeting and Tow submitted his resignation to Mayor Scott Davis on Friday.
According to the Gladewater Mirror, Tow, presently city manager in Bowie, was one of two finalists announced earlier in the week. The city reportedly received 28 application packets.
Gladewater is a town of 6,427 people and it lays in Gregg and Upshur Counties in far eastern Texas.
The two finalists were interviewed last week during a three-hour executive session. The other finalist was Jeff Jenkins, city manager of Broken Arrow, OK.
Tow has been city manager in Bowie since April 2013, following James Cantwell who had been city manager for about 20 years. Prior to Bowie, he was city manager in Cameron four years and city manager administrator in Alvord for 11 years.
The Bowie manager has been under fire off and on during the past two years as citizens demanded reductions in utilities, questioned budgetary and personnel issues and other city operational items.
Tow met with his department heads Friday morning and told them he had placed his resignation on the mayor’s desk. He also has sent emails to all the council.
The city manager said Friday he was waiting on the formal notification from Gladewater, but confirmed he had give his 30-day notice to the mayor. Tow said it was a good time to make a change as the fiscal year comes to a close.
“The budget is done and the audit has started, so it is a good time at the closeout of a fiscal year. It also will give this new council an opportunity for a change of direction which many people have said they would like to see,” concluded Tow.
Mayor Scott Davis said he does not anticipate a called council meeting to discuss the replacement process. The next regular meeting is Nov. 7.
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.
As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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