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Preliminary 2019 property values show slight increases across the county

By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Montague County property owners opened their mailboxes this past week to find their property appraisals for 2019, as the preliminary property values were released mid-week for the 14 taxing entities across the county.
Final certified 2019 property values will not be released until the end of July and usually they fluctuate slightly from final figures.
Kim Haralson, chief appraiser for the Montague County Tax Appraisal District, said with the notices were mailed on April 24 with the last day to protest the values on May 31. Questions may be directed to the district at 894-6011.
More than 17,000 appraisal notices were mailed out to property owners and when the mineral notices are added in there were some 95,000 total notices sent out.
The MCTAD handles all the appraisals for Montague County properties. This year the school districts of Forestburg, Gold-Burg, Montague and Saint Jo were reappraised. In addition the MCTAD also made some adjustments within subdivisions and cities. Read the full story in your weekend Bowie News.
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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.
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