NEWS
Citizens share their anger with Bellevue School board on wind farm development
By BARBARA GREEN
The Bellevue School gym is usually filled with enthusiastic Eagles’ fans, but Tuesday night it was filled with more than 125 angry residents, the majority who do not want wind farms in Clay or neighboring Montague Counties.
School trustees provided an open forum for citizens to make their opinions public and out of the 20 citizens speaking only one offered support for the wind farm development. Officials with Apex Clean Energy spoke to the board, as did a representative of the Clay County Against Wind Farms group.
The Black Angus Wind project plans to produce 270 megawatts of electricity with the majority of the farm’s location in Bellevue Independent School District with a portion in neighboring Bowie ISD.
This new development would follow on the heels of the Shannon Wind Farm that went on line in December 2015 with 119 wind turbines spreading out across more than 10,000 acres in the southwest corner of the county producing 204 MW. Its construction was funded with the assistance of tax abatements from Midway ISD and Clay County. The farm is valued at $3 million.
Read the full story in the weekend News.
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The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on May 12 in the council chambers.
The agenda opens with a proclamation for Emergency Medical Services Week.
In the city manager’s report, Bert Cunningham will discuss the Rock and Pillar Street project and the Texas Water Development Board grant application.
In new business, Brittany Barnes will be considered as an appointment to the Bowie Community Development Board.
A resolution requesting financial assistance from the TWDB authorizing the filing of an application for assistance will be reviewed.
The master parks plan also will be presented by staff from Public Management.
The consent agenda and public comments round out the meeting.
Members of the Montague County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. on May 11.
After the consent agenda and public comments, the court will discuss an interlocal agreement between precinct two and the Bowie Sports Association for the baseball complex.
Precinct three will ask for a line-time budget adjustment of $15,000 from operating expenses to part-time.
The court will open and consider accepting sealed bids for emulsified asphalt and prime oil, all on a 90-day contract.
The consent agenda of minutes, bills and reports also is slated.
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