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Bowie Council to hear report from its power provider
Members of the Bowie City Council will hear a presentation from its electric power provider on its rate and transmission cost when they meet at 6 p.m. on June 10.
A planning and goals’ workshop also is set to follow the regular meeting.
Ken Lindburg of Bryan Texas Utilities will meet with the council to review its bulk power costs with BTU and the city’s transmission costs. City Manager Bert Cunningham has been recommending changes to the city bill to help offset transmission costs the city has been absorbing.
Possible expenditures for the parks board to make repairs on the Pelham Park walking trail will be considered. A group of local walkers approached the council last month about making repairs to the decaying asphalt trail to help avoid accidents.
Two re-appointments to parks board also will be presented.
The city manager’s report will cover numerous topics including the Nelson Street bridge and the status of that project as well as the sewer line replacement program. He will discuss replacing a water line on Wichita Street, the lake line leak, storm siren testing and a meeting on the substation upgrade.
The only old item of business is the second reading of the ordinance adopting an updated water conservation and drought contingency plan.
Public comments conclude the regular council agenda.
Attention voters:
Elections Administrator Ginger Wall reminds voters that electioneering is illegal within 100 feet of a polling location, and that includes the wearing of hats or T-shirts showing candidate or issue support. The election teams have run into a few instances where they had to ask the voter to remove the item or for a shirt turn it inside out to come into the polling location.
Wall said while it can anger the citizen, her team is following the law.
As expected early voting across the nation is hitting record numbers, and Montague County is no exception with 37% of the county’s nearly 16,000 registered voters casting ballots during the first week of early voting.
The early voting process will continue through Nov. 1.
Montague County Elections Administrator Ginger Wall said Monday there have been 5,929 ballots cast as the judges and clerks keep busy with a steady stream of voters. There are a total of 15,654 registered voters in the county.
Early voting will take place Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., courthouse annex location only.
Voting will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 28-Nov. 1 at the Bowie senior center, Nocona Justin Building and Saint Jo Civic Center.
Read more on this story in the mid-week Bowie News.
If you have concerns about emergency medical care and other health care in Bowie, make plans to attend a public meeting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 30 in the Bowie Community Center.
Citizens are invited to discuss ideas on what can be done to initiate a process for another hospital or emergency room in Bowie. As of Oct. 6, Bowie was once more without emergency medical care as the Faith Community Health System closed its emergency room operating just two weeks shy of its one-year anniversary.
Bowie has been without a local hospital or ER since early 2020 when Central Hospital closed. It had operated only a few years, coming in after Bowie Memorial Hospital closed on Nov. 16, 2015.
There will be a moderator and an agenda for discussion. While the meeting is an opportunity to explore all ideas related to this issue, the creation of a taxing hospital district will be discussed and is considered the only way to sustain and subsidize either a hospital or ER.
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