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Nocona Council to swear in new officials on May 17
Three newly elected members of the Nocona City Council will take the oath of office at the 5 p.m. May 17 meeting at city hall.
Christopher Nunneley, Yesika Rodriguez and Taylor Ross will take their seats. Outgoing council members Tracy O’Neal, Bob Ferguson and Steve Tettleton, longtime council members, will be recognized for their service and a new mayor protem will be elected.
Items on the regular workshop and agenda include several requests and property issues.
The Nocona Economic Development 4A and 4B boards will present a project to spend $11,600 ($5,800 per board) to aerify the greens and purchase golf cart batteries for the Indian Oaks Golf Club Advisory Committee. The NEDC also seeks approval of a loan of $38,235 to Lazy Heifer Designs to purchase an embroidery machine and
a grant of $37,824 for improvements to the Nocona Little League fields.
Tina Johnson of the Nortex Regional Planning Commission, will made a presentation on the Community Block Development Grant program, section three. The council also will consider bids for hot mix asphalt.
In property requests, Samuel Diaz and Stanley and Kelly Hall have submitted a replat and the city staff seeks direction. Hall also asks to close the 20-foot alley between lots three and four-six and sell it to him as the adjoining property owner.
The workshop agenda wraps up with a progress report from the staff on the 2022-23 budget.
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.
As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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