NEWS
County commissioners ready budget, tax rate proposals
Montague County Commissioners will put the final touches on the budget during the 9 a.m. Aug. 12 meeting where a hearing on the proposal and the tax rate will be presented.
The court has been working on the budget for months and with the arrival of the certified values in late July it was able to move forward with calculating revenues. A proposed budget has been filed with the county clerk’s office and is available for viewing. A public hearing will be scheduled once a final draft is complete.
Kathy Phillips, county tax assessor, will present the effective tax rate and rollback rates, along with the certification of appraised values. The commissioners will take a record vote on the proposed tax rate and schedule public hearings.
Numerous monthly items fill Monday’s agenda. The veteran’s service office and sheriff’s office will give their reports for July. Interlocal agreements with the county and the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and one with Lubbock County acting through the Regional Public Defender for Capitol Cases will presented, along with the home-delivered meal grant program resolution.
There will be a discussion of the payroll process for the sheriff’s office and jail, the 171 rule employees.
Other topics include: Accept the taking impact assessment related to subdivision rules; preliminary plat for 11 lots in Cherokee Trails; county agent budget line item adjustment; consider fixed asset limit and set 2020 county holidays.
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.
As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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