NEWS
Bowie Council debates moving EMC to a full-time position
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
During the first meeting of the new year, members of the Bowie City Council debated moving the emergency management coordinator from part-time to full-time as his duties expand.
Monday night, City Manager Bert Cunningham asked to make the change for Coordinator Kirk Higgins. The manager reported in his monthly report Higgins also was named the city’s safety officer whose primary responsibility is to go to any accident involving city personnel or equipment and make the necessary reports.
In recent years the safety officer has been undertaken by both the fire chief and police chief, who also previously handled emergency management coordinator duties when there was no paid person. During the final budget workshop last year the city manager asked to make Higgins the part-time emergency management coordinator.
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On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
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