NEWS
Mastertech to be first tenant for spec building Bowie Business Park
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The Bowie Business Park will get its first industrial client after a letter of intent was accepted by the Bowie City Council to continue final negotiations with Mastertech, a machine shop now located in Colorado.
Members of the Bowie Economic Development Corporation 4A Board met with the council Monday night going into executive session to discuss real property negotiations. After nearly a 30 minute session, the council returned to open session to approve the letter of intent for the new business to go into the future spec building that is being built by the BEDC with the help of a $1,460,000 federal grant.
Earlier in October City of Bowie and BEDC officials announced they received a U.S. Economic Development Administration/U.S. Department of Commerce grant through the Economic Adjustment Assistance-COVID-19 Recovery and Resiliency Projects.
Janis Crawley, BEDC executive director, updated the council reminding them about the application that was made a year and a half ago. The grant will provide $1,511,000 for infrastructure improvements at the Bowie Business Park. Both the 4A and 4B Boards will provide $300,000 each to provide matching funds to the grant.
Read the full story in the weekend 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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