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BISD Trustees move meeting

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UPDATE – MEETING MOVED – Due to the boys’ basketball playoff game on Thursday, Feb. 21, the meeting of the BISD Board of Trustees has been moved to Monday, Feb. 25, at 7 a.m.

Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will consider administrator contracts when they meet at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 21.
The board met with officials from the Texas Association of School Boards Monday night, which is the regular board meeting night, to discuss the superintendent search.
There is a lengthy agenda of business on tap for Thursday. Administrator contracts will be considered during executive session along with superintendent performance goal setting.
Action items on the regular agenda include approval of the 2019-20 school calendar, the board activity calendar and the student transfer list.
Superintendent Steven Monkres will provide an update on the energy project, school facilities, school safety and board training opportunities. Assistant Superintendent Christie Walker will bring a report on the AVID program, spring assessments and English/Language Arts instructional materials adoption process.
The agenda wraps up with the consent items, monthly financial report and monthly principal reports.

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Bowie ISD trustees begin budget work

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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.

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Major BISD departments make their year-end reports

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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.

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M3 readies paint party fundraiser

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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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