COUNTY LIFE
Proposed 2021 tax rate going before court
Members of the Montague County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. on Aug. 9 with budgetary items dominating the agenda.
Tax Assessor-Collector Kathy Phillips will present the certification of appraised values for tax year 2021, along with the No New Revenue and Voter Approval Tax Rate for 2021.
Commissioners will then consider a proposed tax rate to fund the budget. Following a record vote, a public hearing will be scheduled. A budget workshop follows those action items.
Other topics on the agenda will be consideration of the 2022 county holiday; establishing Sept. 28, 2021 as National Voter Registration Day; county participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture grant; renew the interlocal agreement with Lubbock County acting through the regional public defender for capital cases; presentation of a replat of lots 611 and 612 in precinct two Silver Lakes Ranch; authority for precinct three to enter the Todd Brown property on Jackson Road to clear a fence line and for precinct four to transfer $10,000 from machinery and equipment to part-time.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council met this past week making plans for budget and tax rate hearings.
Councilors received a brief update on the 2024-25 budget preparations. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the final proposal is almost complete and they now await the arrival of the no-new revenue tax rate that will be reviewed by the council after it is calculated by the tax collector.
The proposal includes a tax rate increase of about 3% similar to last year and there will be a small increase in water and sewer rates, but Hardison said the final crunch on those will come after the tax rate projections arrive.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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