NEWS
Montague County approves budget, tax rate
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Montague County Commissioners approved the 2018 tax rate and the 2018-19 budget Monday finalizing its financial direction for the new fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
After several months of cutting and revising the budget proposal, the court gave it a unanimous yes. Budgeted expenses for the year are $14,032,182 and revenue of $14,245,975.
This budget will be funded through a tax rate of .55 cents per $100 in property value, and while that is the same rate as the prior year it is an increase because it is above the effective rate of .5440 cents. That rate would generate the same tax revenue as the prior year.
That is a one percent increase in the tax rate which is projected to add $6 a year to the tax bill of a house valued at $100,000. The rate breaks down to .3865 cents for the general fund; .1202 for road and bridge; .0005 for Farm-to-Market Right-Of-Way; .0255 for indigent health and .0173 for debt service for a total of .55 cents per $100 in property value.
Looking at the overall budget there were no salary increases, but there was a 3.5 percent increase to health insurance premiums.
Read the full commissioner’s court story in your 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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