NEWS
Council to consider filling precinct one vacancy
Members of the Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 8 in the city council chambers.
The council will consider accepting the May 15 resignation of Councilor Thomas Kent. He was elected to the council in November 2018. Kent resigned last month in an attempt to force a special election after Mayor Bill Miller resigned. He was against the appointment of Gaylynn Burris to fill the remaining term as mayor. Burris was the only applicant for the position and selected by the council.
Council members must fill the precinct one position within 30 days. The post will be up for election in the November ballot, and whoever is named would fill out the term. Filing begins in mid-July.
In other new business, the city will consider leasing property to the Bowie BMX Park, a proposal which was pitched to the council last month. Organizers would like to create a non-profit board that would operate a BMX park on city property next to the Haggar Baseball Complex. The panel agreed last month and began working on an agreement.
A recommendation from the planning and
zoning commission on a request to replat 2.51 acres in the Vickery Addition will be presented, along with a resolution regarding civil rights for the Texas Community Development Block Grant contract.
A resolution authorizing application for financial assistance from the Texas Water Development Board for sewer system improvements will be considered.
Old business includes the city manager report expected to center on the May 22 tornado.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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