NEWS
Commissioners table action on speed limits, stop signs
It took Montague County Commissioners less than 15 minutes to take care of its brief agenda on Monday morning.
Several of the items related to traffic signage were tabled to allow more research into the requirements. Commissioner Roy Darden of precinct one asked to add a 30 mph speed limit on Rosston Road, a 35 mph speed limit on Pleasant Hill Road and stops signs on Roth Road at Denver Road and Huddleston Road also at Denver Road.
While fellow commissioners indicated they had no qualms with the changes, Bob Langford and Mark Murphey both said the state has process for both signs, but they were not exactly sure what it is.
Langford said he recalls it can be 30 mph in a subdivision and 40 on a road. Someone also added the highway code sets the speed limits, which is 60 on a regular road unless posted otherwise. Sheriff Marshall Thomas added from what he read the process is rather vague.
Commissioner Darden said the problem on Rosston is he has no bar ditches and people going too fast is a hazard he wants to address. Murphey agreed a change may help and he thought a stop sign required a public hearing, but they want to make sure and do things right so it is enforceable. Langford added he has a few speed limits he would like to change also, so they can research the steps and go it right. Darden’s motion to table to allow for research was approved.
Members of the Montague County Historical Commission were approved for new two-year terms. The panel includes Beckey Scott, chairperson and Tommie Sappington, cemetery chairman and members Gale Cochran-Smith, Calvin Durham, Marjorie Hess, Robert Howington, Linda Mesler, Sheree Roberts, Robert Terry, Dan Watson, Wayne Wood, Margaret Woodyard and Larry Veale.
Payment was approved for Texas New Mexico Power for $10,113,63 from American Rescue Act Funds for a new power line to the wastewater treatment plant. County Judge Administrative Asssistant Angelia Richardson was named to serve as Nortex Regional Planning Commission Proxy.
And Sheriff Marshall Thomas presented his office’s annual Chapter 59 asset forfeiture report.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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