NEWS
Bowie City Council adopts budget’s first read, no comments on tax rate proposal
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The Bowie City Council adopted the first reading of the 2022-23 budget and conducted a public hearing on the proposed tax rate during a brief half-hour session this week.
City Manager Bert Cunningham also reported on a major street problem that resulted in a one-block section of Nelson to Lamb to be closed after a portion of the road collapsed.
Budget and tax rate
There were no public comments made during a public hearing on the proposed tax rate. The council is offering a 2022 tax rate of .5430 cents per $100 in property value. This is a .312% decrease from the .5447 cent rate from 2021; however, due to higher property values, the tax bill will go up.
In the notice for public hearing, the tax on an average homestead taxable value if $133,381 for 2022 and brings a tax on the average homestead of $724. This compared to the average value of $117,925 in 2021 when the tax bill was $581.
The tax rate will be adopted at a September meeting.
Read the full story on this week’s meeting in your weekend Bowie News.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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