NEWS
Bowie City Council faces long agenda
Members of the Bowie City Council will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. on Aug. 14.
A public hearing on the proposed budget opens the meeting, following public comments. The first reading of the ordinance to adopt the budget will be on the Aug. 28 agenda.
The council also will vote on a proposed tax rate and set a public hearing for it on Aug. 28.
The only item of old business is the calling of the Nov. 7 council election. The remainder of the agenda focuses on new business.
The proposed 2023-24 budgets for the Bowie Economic Development Corporation and the Bowie 4B Sales Tax Corporation. Re-appointments to the BEDC boards also will be considered.
Waste Connections has requested its consumer price index rate adjustment.
A pair of resolutions related to the grants for the water treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant and lift station, city hall and emergency operations center emergency generators will be reviewed along with an interlocal agreement with the Nortex Regional Planning Commission for 911 public safety answering point services.
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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