Members of the Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the council chambers to open a new year of business.
Numerous items of new business fill the agenda.
A planning and zoning recommendation for approval of a replat for tracts at State Highway 59 and U.S. 287 will be offered. This is the site of a proposed new Allsup’s truck stop store location. A second recommendation is for a replat at 510 Ussery Street.
A request from the Bowie Economic Development Corporation to renew a five-year deed for city-owned property at Orchard and Mason. The BEDC has been trying to sell or use the land as an incentive for business development and the agreement had run the five years.
Could the city offices go to a four-day work week? There will be a discussion of a possible proposal where the work day would run longer and still contain 40 hours, but across four days an idea reportedly broached by city employees.
Also in new business, City Manager Bert Cunningham will discuss the power cost recovery increase. Cunningham also will make his monthly report to discuss the topics of the Mill and Nelson water line break, a transformer for the substation and the Brazos Electric power payment.
Public comments and the consent agenda wrap up the Monday council agenda