NEWS
Large audience attends BMH town hall meeting
A group of 164 people attended Tuesday night’s Bowie Memorial Hospital Town Hall meeting hearing outside hospital professionals share their knowledge of rural hospitals and their financial struggles.
Members of the hospital board and hospital administrator conducted the meeting encouraging questions and discussion.
The hospital board has asked voters in the Bowie and Gold-Burg Independent School District to vote on creating a hospital taxing district within those boundaries. The election will be on Nov. 3.
The ballot states the maximum tax to be assessed by a district will be .40 cents per $100 in property value. The board has said it will present a tax rate of .1702 cents per $100.
If a district was approved it also would provide the same homestead exemption as the county, 20 percent or $5,000, which is greater and the over 65 exemption which is $5,000.
Local businessman and former Mayor Bert Cunningham moderated the meeting introducing the speakers and reading questions submitted by the audience. Read the full story in your Saturday News.
Pictured: Bowie Hospital Board of Trustees look out at the audience at Tuesday’s town hall meeting. (Photo by Barbara Green)
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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