SCHOOL NEWS
Gold-Burg receives superior FIRST rating
Trustees of the Gold-Burg Independent School District conducted a public hearing on its Financial Integrity Rating System report where the district received a superior rating for 2018-19.
The board later in its meeting on Oct. 23 to accept the report which received 90 of 100 available points. This rating reviews the financial processes of the district.
The remainder of the mid-week meeting centered on monthly reports as Superintendent Roger Ellis said they had nine students take the PSAT and officials from North Central Texas College visit the campus twice a month to answer questions for students during lunch.
The district’s new 14-passenger bus arrived and has been in use on a route.
Two students have applied for the NASA High School Aerospace Scholars program, an authentic learning experience for Texas high school juniors to engage with NASA’s mission and become the next generation of explorers. Like-minded students will complete an online curriculum in exploration and discovery.
The highest achieving students are invited to a six-day residential experience to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during the summer where they will be mentored by NASA scientists and engineers while working in teams to plan a mission to Mars. Both online and onsite portions are free to participants.
The district is undergoing a series of annual audits for its pest control program, cafeteria, special education and Department of Public Safety. Ellis explained in these reviews officials examine documentation for all these activities to make sure procedures and policies are being followed.
Board training will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 30.
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.
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.
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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