NEWS
Executive session on possible litigation top BISD board meeting
Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 18 in the board room.
An executive session is slated for personnel and legal consultation. The agenda lists personnel, appointment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, dismissal and/or compensation of individual district employees. Item two is consultation with the board’s attorney for the purpose of private consultation regarding anticipated litigation. Back in open session the agenda list discussion and possible action to direct/authorize the superintendent to file charges on behalf of the district.
In information items Superintendent Donna Hale will discuss enrollment, teacher emergency and waiver permit updates and Texas Association of School Boards compensation and staffing review.
Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris will offer the accountability update for 2024 and 2025. Ratings were released on Friday. The district received an overall rating of C with 79 of 100 points. The elementary and intermediate (paired together) received a D (67 points), junior high received a B (84) and high school a B (86). See more information on school ratings in Thursday’s Bowie News.
In action items, the student transfer list will be offered; consider a resolution to recognize the county 4-H organization for extracurricular status; update list of signatories for the district bank account and TexPool resolution to add Hale as an authorized representative.
Campus administrators and the athletic directors will give their monthly reports, along with finance director.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The City of Nocona has been nominated as a rural Opportunity Zone by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Mayor Christopher Nunneley said they will begin “pitching” this federal tax angle to potential businesses.”
At a Tuesday afternoon press conference Nunneley, Donna Culpepper, executive director for the Nocona Economic Development Corporation and Michelle Page of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce announced the nomination and offered a brief overview of the federal tax incentives that can become available.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Remember Sept. 11 2001, 25 years later
While history will remember Sept. 11, 2001 among the darkest days in America’s history, it also is a day marked not only by tremendous heroism and bravery by first responders, but also every day Americans from all walks of life who showed the world our country would not be intimidated by terrorism.
There were 2,996 people killed during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York city police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers. Tens of thousands more suffered in the aftermath due to exposure to chemicals and industrial debris.
The Bowie News editor asked some local lawmen, firefighters, a pilot and two retired FBI agents their memories of this tragic day and how their jobs were impacted by the events. We thank them for sharing their reflections.
Read the full feature in your Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Looking toward the future, the Bowie City Council Tuesday night voted to add an assistant city manager position promoting Public Works Director Stony Lowrance to the job.
The agenda listed an executive session to discuss evaluation of the city manager. Councilors went to closed session at 6:30 p.m. and 15 minutes later asked City Manager Bert Cunningham and Lowrance to come in. After 15 minutes they left the session and a few minutes later the full council came back to open session.
Councilor Brent Shaw, in making the motion for the assistant city manager, pointed to expanded duties the manager has undertaken. Councilor Boyd Hulstine made the second as the vote received unanimous approval.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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