NEWS
Bellevue ISD asking voters for $750,000 bond
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bellevue Independent School District approved a $4.5 million bond in November 2019 just as rumblings of a worldwide virus were beginning in America.
Little did the district know schools would be shut down five months later in March 2020 just as designs had begun on the new construction.
It would lead to a convergence of events that pushed the building project over budget, and forced the district to ask its voters for additional bond funds to wrap up the construction and purchase needed equipment.
Located in far southern Clay County and not far from the Montague County line, Bellevue ISD has an enrollment of about 145 for its Pre-K-12th grades.
In the Nov. 8 election Bellevue voters will be asked to consider a pair of bond propositions that together total $750,000.
Proposition A asks for $655,000 for designing, constructing, improving, upgrading, updating, acquiring and equipping school facilities, plus the removal of any necessary existing facilities.
Proposition B is for $95,000 and would allow for the sale of bonds in an amount not to exceed $95,000 for refunding all or a portion of the State Energy Conservation Office Loan agreement from May 22, 2020.
Superintendent Wade Wesley and members of the school board have been conducting informational meetings on the bond proposals this week to prepare voters for the November election. He said it can be a confusing thing as the district cannot advocate for the vote and can only provide information.
Wesley emphasized that although the ballot must say “this is a property tax increase,” the school will decrease the tax rate by two cents for the debt service portion of the rate next August.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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