NEWS
Energy values fall 51% across Montague County
2020 Montague County preliminary property values
By BARBARA GREEN
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As energy production values dropped 30-40 percent across Montague County, tax entities are seeing significant reductions in their preliminary property values, which doesn’t bode well for this year’s budgets or tax rates.
This past week property owners began receiving the more than 14,000 real estate and business property preliminary value statements mailed out by the Montague County Tax Appraisal District. An additional 75,000 were mailed out by mineral appraisers Pritchard and Abbott to those property owners.
Kim Haralson, chief appraiser for the MCTAD said this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions protests can only be done by teleconference or through paper affidavit, which is what Haralson suggests. The last day to protest real estate and business is May 15, and for oil and gas properties May 22 is the last day.
.The appraisal district handles appraisals for all the taxing entities in the county which includes all cities, school districts and watersheds.
As oil and gas prices plummeted to new lows during late 2019, that trend continued to historic levels into spring 2020 when oil hit a negative level at one point. During the third week of April it was $14.99 a barrel.
Property appraisals are based on the values as of Jan. 1, 2020, and do not reflect any activity after that point.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The cast and crew of Gold-Burg High School’s state-bound one-act play “Interview,” will present a public show at 4 p.m. on May 5 in the Bowie Junior High Auditorium.
Admission is $5 and there will be a bake sale to raise funds for travel and other OAP expenses. The show is directed by Linda Fitzner.
The group will travel to Austin to perform on May 13 for the state title. This is the school’s first time to take a play to the state contest.
Pictured above: Cast of “Interview” in rehearsal this week. (Courtesy photo)
Voters in Bowie and Forestburg Independent School Districts will have their say Saturday as both entities offer up bond issues to improve infrastructure.
Early voting came to an end on Tuesday with a total of 1,230 people casting their ballots.
On election day the polls will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at three locations: Bowie Senior Citizens Center, Forestburg ISD Library and Sunset City Hall. Voters can cast their ballots at any of these locations due to countywide voting.
Read more about both bond proposals in your weekend Bowie News.
Water was off Wednesday morning as the City of Bowie public works crew replaced a fire hydrant at the corner of Walnut and Matthews. (Photo by Barbara Green)
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