NEWS
City of Bowie adopts 2018 tax rate; councilor resigns
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
After several weeks of Bowie City Council meetings filled with angry tirades surrounding the budget and utility rates, Monday night’s session was calm with virtually no discussion as the panel handled a brief agenda of business.
The council was informed of Machelle Mills’ resignation. See related story on this page.
The final piece of the 2018-19 budgetary picture was completed with approval of the 2018 tax rate of .5250 cents per $100 in property value.
This is a 7.56 percent increase above the effective tax rate, the amount required to generate the same taxes as the prior year, although the 2017 rate was .53 cents.
Higher property values creates the fluctuation. For a home valued at $100,000 the tax increase will bring a $36.90 increase for the year.
Read the full story in the mid-week News.
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.
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