NEWS
Examining school security – BISD has undertaken many improvements to enhance security
By BARBARA GREEN
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Each time there is a school shooting incident in America it launches a debate on the security of our schools. The May 24 mass casualty incident at Uvalde in Robb Elementary was no different although seemingly even more tragic with the loss of 19 elementary school students and two teachers. The 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, was killed at the scene.
This shooting came just 10 days after a shooting at a Tops supermarket in New York that took the lives of 10 people.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Education Agency late last week to provide strategies to make Texas public schools safer. Specifically, districts were asked to identify actions they can take prior to the start of the new school year to make campuses more secure; instruct districts to conduct weekly inspections of exterior doors to verify they are secure during school hours and develop strategies to encourage school districts to increase the presence of trained law enforcement officers and school marshals on campus.
All the superintendents in the county will be meeting in Bowie Thursday in response to the Uvalde shooting. Enlow said they will talk about what they are doing in their districts, new information and ideas and thought processes that may be set up in responding to the Texas incident.
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Bowie Independent School District has undertaken many steps to increase security and several projects are in the works. Superintendent Blake Enlow said the Uvalde shooting occurred just a few days before the school year ended in Bowie and it was on everyone’s mind at the annual staff breakfast on the last day.
Read the full story on the improvements made for school security in the last five years in your mid-week Bowie News.
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.
The Department of Public Safety has provided information on an auto vs. motorcycle accident that reportedly occurred on July 4.
James Lee Hilton, Nocona, was driving a 2019 Harley-Davidson motorcycle and Daniel Parra, Chico, was driving a 2018 Ford Fiesta. Both vehicles were north on State Highway 101 outside Sunset with the motorcycle behind the car.
Parra was attempting to turn left on Farm-to-Market Road 2265 when the motorcyclist attempted to unsafely pass to the left states the report. The bike struck the left side of the Fiesta. Both vehicles came to rest off the roadway on the northwest corner of SH 101 and FM 2265.
Hilton was transported to Denton Medical City with
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