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FEMA grants, BEDC budget questions tackled at Bowie Council meeting
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
While fiscal budget issues topped the Bowie City Council discussions this week, members also debated resolutions for grant matches on emergency generators and proposed budgets for the Bowie Economic Development Corporations.
The council received a trio of resolutions required for the Federal Emergency Management Agency grants that would fund eight generators for the water-wastewater treatment plant, plus city hall, the emergency operation center and an emergency shelter in the community center.
These grants were first applied for two years ago by Emergency Management Coordinator Kirk Higgins and as with many government programs the bureaucracy moves slow. Higgins said they have been told everything is going through and so far they have had one meeting on the water plant items and will soon have one for the wastewater side.
When the original application was made the costs for all the projects was about $800,000; however, Higgins said it is unclear what the bids may come in now two years later. FEMA has indicated it will help fund any additional amount.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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