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Montague County adopts 2024 tax rate, budget

By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Montague County Commissioners adopted the 2024-25 budget and the 2024 tax rate during their Monday session.
This year’s tax rate is 1.11% lower than the prior year’s rate of .50170 cents per $100 in property value. The 2024 rate is .4961 cents, which is the county’s “no new revenue” rate.
The tax on the average homestead will go up 1.72% with tax projected at $724 for 2024, compared to $712 in 2023.
Total budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year including special funds is $19,246,279. County Auditor Jennifer Essary said last year’s comparable total was $17,677,954, however, this year’s the majority of that increase is from Senate Bill 22 money that was not budgeted last year and is this year.
These grant funds are being used in the sheriff, district attorney and county attorney offices primarily to increase salaries.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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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.
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