NEWS
City of Bowie readies joint workshop on master plan update
A joint workshop between the Bowie City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission is planned or 6-8 p.m. on Aug. 21 in the Bowie Community Center to formally launch the city’s comprehensive plan update.
Staff from Public Management, Inc. has been working on the city’s master plan update. Coordinators explain the workshop will introduce the purpose and scope of a comprehensive plan, present preliminary findings from the field work and initial data collection and “initiate a collaborative conversation around the community’s long-range goals.
Attendees will include council members, P&Z members, other city boards and city staff and interested citizens. A QR code has been created to allow citizens to take part in a survey related to this plan. Find the code on the city, library and Bowie News Facebook pages.
“This workshop marks an important first step in ensuring that both the city council and planning and zoning commission have meaningful ownership of the process and outcomes, helping to build a strong foundation for future decision making,” explained the planner.
During this meeting the comprehensive planning process will be introduced and they will explain how it will serve as a guide for Bowie’s future growth, development and pubic investment during the next 10 to 20 years. It will create a shared understanding between the council and P&Z about the plan’s purpose, their roles and how their input will shape its outcomes.
This workshop also will provide space for open dialogue about community priorities, long-term aspirations and areas where the city staff and elected officials believe the city should focus its efforts. It also will launch the vision and goal-setting phase of the project, allowing council and P&Z to articulate what success looks like and where the plan should lead. There will be no voting or council action at this meeting.
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.
-
NEWS3 years agoSuspect indicted, jailed in Tia Hutson murder
-
NEWS4 years agoWreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16
-
NEWS4 years ago2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona
-
NEWS3 years agoMurder unsolved – 1 year later Tia Hutson’s family angry, frustrated with no arrest
-
NEWS3 years agoSO investigating possible murder/suicide
-
Show us something good9 years agoCountry music star children perform in Bowie
-
100th Birthday4 years agoLooking back at the 1958 Centennial edition of The Bowie News
-
NEWS3 years ago
Sheriff’s office called out to infant’s death