NEWS
City of Bowie budget hearing Tuesday
The first public hearing for the 2017-18 City of Bowie budget will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 1 in the council chambers during its regular meeting.
This budget proposal was presented earlier in July.
The agenda will include discussions on the 2017 tax rate with a record vote to consider a tax increase and the scheduling of two public hearings for Aug. 15 and Sept. 5.
The Nov. 7 general election will be called along with a joint agreement with Montague County to conduct the election.
Other items up for action include: Consider consulting services for group health and life insurance; audit engagement letter from Donald Allman and renewal of an interlocal agreement for 911 public safety answering point services with the Nortex Regional Planning Commission.
There will be an executive session for the annual evaluation and duties of the city manager, city secretary and municipal court judge. These are the staff members hired by the city council.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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