NEWS
Bowie City Council to adopt tax rate, budget
The Bowie City Council will conduct a public hearing on the proposed tax rate for 2020 at its Aug. 24 meeting that begins at 6 p.m.
Council members also will consider the second reading of the proposed budget for 2020-21, approved at the last meeting.
The proposed tax rate is .5447 cents per $100 in property value, which is up only slightly from the present rate of .5445 cents. Based on the tax for an average homestead the annual tax bill will see a four percent increase going from $562 in 2019 to $582 in 2020.
A public hearing will open Monday’s agenda and the agenda lists the first reading of the ordinance assessing the tax rate.
The second reading of the budget ordinance lists expenses of $8,124,023 for general fund and $9,514,451 in the utility fund.
A pair of planning and zoning commission recommendations for two replats will be presented along with a resolution between Bowie and Atmos Energy and the Atmos Cities Steering Committee on a negotiated settlement regarding the company’s 2020 rate review mechanism
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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