SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie ISD board to meet Thursday
Trustees of the Bowie Independent School District will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 17.
Public hearings on several topics will open the meeting along with the audit report.
Paul Fleming, certified public accountant, will present the 2019-2020 audit prepared by Edgin, Parkman, Fleming and Fleming PC.
Hearings will be conducted for the Texas Education Agency Financial Accountability Rating System which will include an overview of the district’s Financial Integrity rating report.
The district’s accountability rating also will be discussed. Last week the TEA staff announced the A-F ratings would be paused for the 2020-21 school year due to the ongoing disruptions associated with COVID-19.
Superintendent Blake Enlow will provide an update on building repairs related to the tornado along with a facilities committee report and information on a demolition quote for the closed administration building. The district has been considering different options from demo and building to selling the property as is.
Other monthly reports will be include the assistant superintendent, finance director and campus principals.
In action items the board will discuss a bus purchase; the transfer list of students; consider action on board operating procedures and the board calendar; review a resolution to extend sick leave during the pandemic until the end of the academic school year 2020-21 and consider a resolution to extend leave for employee quarantine during the pandemic to the end of the year.
Bowie school trustees began the arduous task of creating a 2024-25 budget during a lengthy workshop this week.
The board also reviewed some possible changes in the student/employee handbooks and codes of conduct.
Superintendent Blake Enlow said the board spent about two hours in discussion Monday night and began crunching numbers; however, many factors still remain unknown including state funding and local ad valorem tax revenue.
Trustees examined where the district stands for the rest of the fiscal year that ends in August. Finance Director Paula Peterson said the district is catching up on the arrival some state revenues, which she hopes will help offset the expect shortfall. The 2023-24 budget adopted with a half-million deficit, but Enlow said they hope to keep that down as much as possible.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
As the Bowie School District launches into its summer projects, several department heads offered their year-end reports to the trustees last Thursday.
Annual reports
Wayne Walker, support services director, told the board the management team for all his departments set a goal to reduce budget expenses this year and so far they are below budget projections as the school year winds down and summer projects kick off.
As of June 6, child nutrition was $235,678.46 below budget; transportation, $217,942.20 below budget and custodial $312,277.44 below budget, for an overall projected amount of $765,898.10 below budget.
“We hope to finish August 2024 under budget to help out the district in recouping some of the adopt deficit budget for 2023-24. We are projecting in the right direction to end the fiscal year,” said Walker.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
Bowie High School’s Mighty Marching Maroon Band will host a fundraiser paint party from 6-8 p.m. on June 18 in the high school cafeteria.
Cost is $30 to paint an 11 X 14 pre-traced canvas with $15 of each prepaid ticket going to the boosters. The band boosters will be providing snacks, and all supplies such as paint, brushes and canvas are provided.
Host will be Shannon Adkins of Texas Gals Creative Studio.
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