NEWS
New business agenda topics face Bowie City Council
Members of the Bowie City Council will face an agenda predominately filled with new business when they meet a 6 p.m. on April 14 in council chambers.
A bid will be awarded to Public Management for application and administrative services for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Parks grant, which the city will be applying for. At last week’s parks board meeting a preliminary draft plan for the parks, which may be included in the city’s new comprehensive plan was reviewed touching on needs and concerns of citizens.
The planning and zoning committee will make a recommendation to replat a 4.06 acre section of phase one Kingdom Ridge subdivision. The public library staff also will discuss changing operating hours.
Nine appointments will be up for council actions: Reappointments to the parks board that include Margin Latham, Janice Blahuta and Michael Eichler; reappointments to the hotel/motel board of Gaylynn Burris and Jamie Rodden, plus a new hotel board appointment in Wendy Hickey.
The only other items on the agenda are consent agenda for minutes, the city manager’s report and public comments.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Wendy Hickey is the new executive director for the Bowie Chamber of Commerce, and she looking forwarded to working in a small town after an office job in Dallas.
The 49-year-old Hickey grew up in Crandall and then Kaufman, TX, which she said is similar in size to Bowie. She moved to Bowie about two and a half years ago to be with her fiancé Stacy Tyner and his son Ethan, age six. Hickey also has a daughter, Haley, 28, and she is the proud grandma of Raelynn.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie Independent School District hired a new director of student services position, but is losing its intermediate principal as Jason Childress takes the director’s job.
After a 30-minute executive session Monday night the board named Childress to the position. Childress came to Bowie Junior High as assistant principal in August 2021 bringing 19 years of experience in the classroom, sports field and administrative office. He became intermediate principal in May 2023.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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