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County commissioners ready budget, tax rate proposals

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Montague County Commissioners will put the final touches on the budget during the 9 a.m. Aug. 12 meeting where a hearing on the proposal and the tax rate will be presented.
The court has been working on the budget for months and with the arrival of the certified values in late July it was able to move forward with calculating revenues. A proposed budget has been filed with the county clerk’s office and is available for viewing. A public hearing will be scheduled once a final draft is complete.
Kathy Phillips, county tax assessor, will present the effective tax rate and rollback rates, along with the certification of appraised values. The commissioners will take a record vote on the proposed tax rate and schedule public hearings.
Numerous monthly items fill Monday’s agenda. The veteran’s service office and sheriff’s office will give their reports for July. Interlocal agreements with the county and the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and one with Lubbock County acting through the Regional Public Defender for Capitol Cases will presented, along with the home-delivered meal grant program resolution.
There will be a discussion of the payroll process for the sheriff’s office and jail, the 171 rule employees.
Other topics include: Accept the taking impact assessment related to subdivision rules; preliminary plat for 11 lots in Cherokee Trails; county agent budget line item adjustment; consider fixed asset limit and set 2020 county holidays.

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New 97th DA stayed focused to become a trial attorney

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By BARBARA GREEN
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Katie Boggeman had high aspirations even in kindergarten, where she told her teacher she wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice.
She laughs about that memory today and is not sure what made her pick that profession, but it was omen for the future as Boggeman began her official term as 97th District Attorney this week.
The Clay County resident won the March Republican Party Primary defeating DA Casey Hall and was not challenged in the general election planning for a Jan. 1, 2025 start; however, after the outgoing DA was indicted on theft charges those plans changed. So far she has been sworn in once after Hall agreed to a suspension and a second time when Hall resigned and the governor appointed Boggeman to fill the interim. She looks to the Jan. 1 ceremony as the “third time charm.”
The 44-year-old Boggeman has been married to Joe Mac Boggeman since 2015. The couple is raising two children in the Four Corners area of Clay County, where Joe Mac’s family is from. She calls herself a country girl at heart and always knew they would make their home in a rural area.
Boggeman grew up on a horse ranch in California where she showed livestock and competed in numerous horse disciplines as a youth. She grew up in the rodeo world and earned her first queen title at the age of 12. It was the start of a “queening journey,” that peaked with the Miss Rodeo USA from the International Professional Rodeo Association in 2004. She believes those experiences helped form the person she would become, as she traveled across the country and Canada at the age of 24.

Read the full feature in the weekend Bowie News.

Top Photo: Katie Boggeman, 97th district attorney, stands with her staff. (Left) Brandi Shipman, Wes Wallace, Paige McCormick, Boggeman, Todd Lewis and Jackie Welsh. The new DA is excited to have a full staff onboard and ready to go in 2025. (Courtesy photo)

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Newly elected county officials begin new terms

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While all of these elected officials were incumbents, they took the oath of office for a new term on Jan. 1, 2025. They are: Constable One Harvey Johnson, Constable Two Jerry DeMoss; County Attorney Clay Riddle; Tax Assessor-Collector Kathy Phillips; Sheriff Marshall Thomas; County Judge Kevin Benton administered the oath; Commissioner Three Mark Murphey and Commissioner One Roy Darden. (Photo by Barbara Green)

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Newly elected county officials take oath of office Jan. 1

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Jan. 1, 2025 is the first day of a new elected term for many Montague County officials. There will be a swearing-in ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 in the courthouse annex.
The public is invited to attend with refreshments to follow.
Officials being sworn in are: Sheriff Marshall Thomas, County Attorney, Commissioner One Roy Darden, Commissioner Three Mark Murphey, Constables Jerry DeMoss and Harvey Johnson and Tax Assessor Kathy Phillips.

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