NEWS
TxDOT pre-treats roads in time for winter weather
WICHITA FALLS DISTRICT – TxDOT maintenance crews in nine counties (Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young) spent the last day and a half pre-treating bridges and overpasses with brine on all of our primary and secondary roadways and many tertiary roadways as well. Our tanker trucks were able to spray the main lanes of US 287, I-44 and US 82.
Tonight four sections in Vernon, Electra, Wichita Falls, and Henrietta have already changed over to 12 hour shifts around the clock. These sections will continue to pretreat more roadways overnight.
Other sections will have maintenance supervisors monitoring the roads and deploying equipment and manpower as needed. The snow plows are loaded and ready to roll. Our stock remains high.
Drivers are advised to check road conditions and weather forecasts before heading to other parts of the State. Motorists can obtain travel information, road conditions and see 15 Wichita Falls traffic cameras and 1 Vernon camera by visiting DriveTexas.org or calling (800) 452-9292. Traffic cameras are also at TxDOT.Gov.
Remember to follow the Wichita Falls District in our newly created Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/TxDOTWichitaFalls and on Twitter, www.Twitter.com/TxDOTWF .
If you experience an emergency on the road, call 9-1-1 for help.
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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