NEWS
Bowie PD renovation approved; council will use pandemic funds
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
As a newly elected slate of Bowie City Councilors took their seats this week, they voted to move forward with the renovation of the police department using more than $600,000 in state and federal local fiscal recovery funds to pay for a project estimated to run between $600,000 to $800,000.
After the Nov. 2 election four officials took the oath of office Monday night including Mayor Gaylynn Burris returning for her second elected term, returning councilman Jason Love and newcomers Stephanie Post and Brent Shaw.
Love was elected to continue serving as mayor pro tem. Bowie Knife plaques were presented to outgoing council members Wayne Bell and Diana Higgins.
PD remodel
After more than a year and a half of review and debate, it looks like the renovation of the police department and former city offices will proceed. City Manager Bert Cunningham presented his proposal to use American Rescue Plan state and federal funds for the project.
“I am asking the council to approve spending this money to remodel the police station. The initial estimated cost is between $600,000 to $800,000. I asked the architect how much it would cost to build a new building about the same size, and he told me it would be about double what the remodel will cost. In my opinion, the difference in cost is enough to make the decision to remodel the existing building,” explained Cunningham.
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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.
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