NEWS
Commissioners to consider how to fill clerk’s post
Montague County Commissioners will begin the task of considering how to fill the county clerk’s position that will be vacant when Glenda Henson retires at the end of the year.
Henson has served as county clerk the past 16 years after being appointed in 2006, and has worked for the county for 22 years total. Her retirement is effective Dec. 31.
An executive session is scheduled for the 9 a.m. Nov. 23 agenda. Henson has two years left on her term. The appointee would serve out that term followed by an election.
The court will approve the fiscal 2021 Texas County and District Retirement System Plan agreement. The Texas Association of Counties Risk Management Pool liability renewal questionnaire also will be presented.
The annual interlocal agreement between Lubbock County acting through the Regional Public Defender for Capitol Cases will be examined, along with a line item adjustment for journal entries for outstanding bank reconciliation items.
In other topics the district attorney will ask to upgrade and lease a new copier; the county employee handbook will be offered for approval along with the Department of Transportation safety handbook. A printing bill for the new personnel policy handbooks also will be submitted for payment of $1,185.
A request from the Nortex Regional Planning Commission to name a private road in precinct one Sunset Ridge Lane for 911 purposes will be discussed.
Precinct two sees to enter into a finance contract to buy a motor grader and related equipment and to accept a donation of $4,500 to chip seal roads.
The court also will review permission for the county to sell surplus equipment through Government Deals.
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)
No action was taken on a legal issue after members of the Bowie City Council met in a called closed session at 4 p.m. on July 12.
City Secretary Sandy Page said the council met for almost one hour for “consultation with attorney – Midwest Waste Services LLC vs. City of Bowie.
This lawsuit goes back to August 2019 when Midwest sued the city for its action requiring those who receive city water outside the city limits to use the designated waste collector, which is Waste Connections. This was shortly after the city signed a new long-term contract with WC.
The suit was dismissed in June 2020 on two points in the suit, but City Manager Bert Cunningham said a third point remained in mediation.
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