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)
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The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on May 12 in the council chambers.
The agenda opens with a proclamation for Emergency Medical Services Week.
In the city manager’s report, Bert Cunningham will discuss the Rock and Pillar Street project and the Texas Water Development Board grant application.
In new business, Brittany Barnes will be considered as an appointment to the Bowie Community Development Board.
A resolution requesting financial assistance from the TWDB authorizing the filing of an application for assistance will be reviewed.
The master parks plan also will be presented by staff from Public Management.
The consent agenda and public comments round out the meeting.
Members of the Montague County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. on May 11.
After the consent agenda and public comments, the court will discuss an interlocal agreement between precinct two and the Bowie Sports Association for the baseball complex.
Precinct three will ask for a line-time budget adjustment of $15,000 from operating expenses to part-time.
The court will open and consider accepting sealed bids for emulsified asphalt and prime oil, all on a 90-day contract.
The consent agenda of minutes, bills and reports also is slated.
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