NEWS
BISD Trustees meet on personnel issues this Monday
Bowie Independent School District Trustees will consider professional educator contracts and the vacant Bowie High School assistant principal position when they meet at 5:30 p.m. May 15.
The personnel discussions will take place in executive session with any action back in open session.
Also in closed session, the board will discuss the district safety plan. A teacher certification waiver request will be offered to allow a qualified individual to teach outside of the area of certification in alternative education.
Trustees will be introduced to members of the top 10% of the graduating class and to the BISD Collegiate Academy Graduate. Elementary school mentors also will be recognized.
In his informational reports, Superintendent Blake Enlow will give details for a possible educational field trip for a group of junior high students to Washington D.C. next year.
Preliminary property values for 2023 will be reviewed along with a discussion on course offerings and course weights.
Campus principals will give year-end reports and the finance director the monthly financial reports.
In action items the board will act upon an extension of the bank depository contract with Jacksboro National Bank for two more years.
A request to spend $55,000 of career technology funds for a greenhouse will be presented, for board discussion along with a waiver for a missed school day for the school safety event on May 5.
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on April 22 in the council chambers.
City Manager Bert Cunningham in his report will discuss the comprehensive planning grant and the substation transformer.
In old business there will be second readings for the water rate ordinance tabled from the last meeting, plus the new ordinances related to the operation of food trucks in the city.
In new business the council will discuss section 3 policy updates for the community development grant for Smythe Street sidewalks and hear a request from public works to use $9,763 out of the tap account to purchase 64 meters.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The City of Bowie received an unqualified audit for 2023-24 presented by its outside auditor during its April 8 meeting.
Valerie Halverson of the Mathis, West, Huffines Group, Wichita Falls, reviewed the extensive report on the city’s funds.
She noted it was a busy year dealing with several major capital projects along with tracking grant funds, but the city met all the general accounting standards.
Read the full story on the outside audit in the Thursday Bowie News.
(Top photo) Volunteers Janet Morgan, Pattye Graham, Jo Lee and Carolyn Cantwell were busy at the registration table during “Sight for All” event sponsored by Bowie and Graham Lions Clubs on April 5 at Bowie First Methodist Church. There were nine stations for screenings for eye diseases and about 50 people went through.
About 50 people attended the Bowie Lions and Graham Lions Club program for eye screening hosted in Bowie recently. There were nine stations through which people were screened or things like glaucoma and other eye diseases. If any concerns were raised information was available about referrals and related assistance. (Courtesy photos)
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