NEWS
County approves budget, proposed tax rate
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Montague County Commissioners approved a proposed 2020 tax rate and a 2020-21 budget during its Monday session.
The court debated a few areas of contention in the budget including a push from several elected officials to get their reduced rate secretary staff members raised up to full deputy clerk pay. At the end of the back-and-forth, the court said no, this was not the year to make any salary increases.
After all the cuts and changes, the court adopted a budget that would be funded through a proposed tax rate of .5641 cents per $100 in property value. The 2019 rate is .55 cents, so a new rate would be an increase of 1.41 cents.
Tax Assessor Collector Kathy Phillips presented the potential rates. The “no-new-revenue tax rate” formerly the effective rate, is .5641 cents. The voter-approval rate formerly the rollback rate was set at .5858, which is the maximum increase before voters could take action through an election to rollback the rate.
Read the full story on the budget discussion in the mid-week Bowie News.
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.
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