NEWS
Bowie City Council handles brief agenda
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie City Councilors took care of a brief 15-minute agenda of business Monday night including resolutions related to a state grant and the ATMOS Cities Steering Committee, plus announcing the annual city-wide garage sale.
The popular garage sale takes place the last full weekend in April per previous council action and this year it will be April 28-30.
There were two resolutions approved related to the Texas Community Development grant the city will be receiving to replace a water line.
City Manager Bert Cunningham offered his monthly reporting touching on multiple topics. He noted the city has paid off the five-year note used to purchase the Vac truck, large excavator, a police department patrol unit, the newer ambulance that was in a wreck last year, fire department tools, a smaller dump truck and a tree chipper.
This was a five-year note for $1,157,357.00 including interest. The yearly payments were $231,471.00 The CM said the goal now is not to acquire new debt unless we have too.
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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