SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie School Board moves its meetings
Due to the rescheduling of the Bowie High Sports Banquet to May 21, the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees have rearranged their third month meeting schedule with two meetings set for Monday.
The board will meet at 7 a.m. for a lengthy agenda, followed by a noon meeting with two items related to the issuance of maintenance tax notes.
The noon session would address financing for near $2.8 million in maintenance notes to fund the energy efficiency project that spans the district and will upgrade everything from basic lighting to aged heating and cooling units. Conservation management plans are included.
In April the board approved a project with Entegral Solutions. Replacement of the HVAC is the largest component of the project. The district has more than 250 units. At the junior high 32 HVAC systems will be replaced with upsizing, relocation and air distribution upgrades where necessary.
At the elementary 52 HVAC systems will be replaced and at the intermediate 11 systems will be replaced plus the boiler will be decommissioned.
A resolution authorizing the issuance, sale and delivery of maintenance notes and a resolution expressing the intent to finance expenditures incurred with the energy project are the only topics on the noon agenda.
Recognition of the senior class top 10 percent and the state athletes opens the 7 a.m. meeting. The board will recognize the seniors, state power lifting qualifiers, state track meet qualifiers and the boy’s basketball state champions.
Superintendent Steven Monkres will present the school safety audit report summary, discuss the BISD/North Central Texas Collegiate Academy, future college and career readiness assessments and high school counseling roles and responsibilities.
Curriculum Director Christie Walker will discuss the preliminary fifth and eighth grade state test results and the future of pre-advanced placement course offerings.
Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Pastusek will conduct a preliminary budget workshop.
An executive session is scheduled for personnel and safety plans.
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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