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Saint Jo City Council meets March 13
The Saint Jo City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on March 13 at Saint Jo City Hall with consideration of a four-day work week and requests from the 4B Economic Development Board listed as discussion topics.
Public Works Director Marty Hilton will make a request to change the work week of the City of Saint Jo employees to a four-day week effective April 1.
Hilton said the city operates with approximately three full-time staff members, plus two part-time employees. He feels it could be a way to boost employee morale as an additional benefit. He has received input from his staff, as well as seen what other communities are doing with going to a four-day work week.
Hilton was planning to meet with the city secretary Tuesday to discuss her ideas on the schedule, but said he would have his crew working four, 10-hour days.
The police would operate on their same schedule and respond to emergencies, as would public works staff when there is a water line break or other problem.
The 4B EDC requests include approving Colton Shelton as the new secretary-treasurer, Deborah Thomas as the new vice president and Patty Hale to fill an empty seat on the board. Colton Shelton also would be added as a signator on the 4B checking account.
Police Chief Harvey Johnson will offer the annual racial profiling report. It is a federally mandated report.
Mark and Connie Wagner have asked for an exemption on their two-acre property from having two dwellings.
Minutes, monthly bills and written reports fill out the agenda.
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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