NEWS
Petitions verified for Tier 2 election
Organizers of the Tier 2 petition against forced annexation turned in all their signatures reaching the goal needed to request an election from the Montague County Commissioner’s Court.
That petition will be discussed in a called meeting of the court at 1 p.m. on Feb. 15.
County Elections Administrator Ginger Wall said the group submitted all its petitions late last week shooting for 1,340 verifiable signatures of county voters. Wall said they surpassed that number with more than 1,350.
The petition ask the court to place the issue of moving from a Tier 1 county to a Tier 2 county on the May 4 election ballot.
The drive was spearheaded by Montague Citizens Protecting Property Rights and referred to Senate Bill 6, approved during the 85th Legislature and going into effect Dec. 1, 2017.
The bill requires landowner or voter approval of annexations in the state’s largest counties (Tier 2 – those with 500,000 or more in population).
Smaller counties less than 500,000 are Tier 1, and can opt-in to the bill through a petition and election process which would move them into Tier 2 status.
If approved where any potential involuntary annexation would have to be voted upon by the area in question. Without a change in tier status, the annexation process would remain unchanged.
Last November voters in Wise, Parker, Palo Pinto, Johnson, Freestone and Atascosa approved the measure moving from a Tier 1 to Tier 2 county in Texas.
A crew from Scarborough Engineering was working on control termination wiring in the control room of the Bowie Substation last week. They were integrating additional equipment including the new transformer. Once everything is connected it will go through a testing phase. The transformer project has been stalled during the past year awaiting the arrival of various parts. (News photo by Barbara Green
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
After more than a year of turmoil and upheaval it appears the Amon Carter Lake Water Supply Corporation is back on its feet with a slate of new board members and plans to review by-laws and operations.
Last August all the board members resigned in the wake of a lawsuit by a resident who could not obtain water for a small housing development despite being in the district. The property owner also accused the board of not following open meetings or open records laws, or its own by-laws.
After the board resigned a receivership was requested from the court and was named in December 2025. The receiver or temporary manager was Nocona attorney Zach Renfro, who was directed by the court to seek out possible directors to rehabilitate the association and assure it meets the obligation of continuing to provide water to more than 300 members.
The corporation board conducted its first general membership meeting on March 27 where a state of the corporation was given and new directors
named. They are Kevin McShan, president; Josh Swint, vice president; Carla Swofford, secretary; Wesley Kelly, treasurer; Zach Gunter, Rob Hankins and Chase Thomas, all directors.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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