NEWS
Bowie City Council faces new business items
Members of the Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the council chambers to open a new year of business.
Numerous items of new business fill the agenda.
A planning and zoning recommendation for approval of a replat for tracts at State Highway 59 and U.S. 287 will be offered. This is the site of a proposed new Allsup’s truck stop store location. A second recommendation is for a replat at 510 Ussery Street.
A request from the Bowie Economic Development Corporation to renew a five-year deed for city-owned property at Orchard and Mason. The BEDC has been trying to sell or use the land as an incentive for business development and the agreement had run the five years.
Could the city offices go to a four-day work week? There will be a discussion of a possible proposal where the work day would run longer and still contain 40 hours, but across four days an idea reportedly broached by city employees.
Also in new business, City Manager Bert Cunningham will discuss the power cost recovery increase. Cunningham also will make his monthly report to discuss the topics of the Mill and Nelson water line break, a transformer for the substation and the Brazos Electric power payment.
Public comments and the consent agenda wrap up the Monday council agenda
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The 2026 certified property values for Montague County were released to the 16 taxing entities for which it sets values and for Montague County the total numbers were up 3.591%.
With the arrival of these numbers, the taxing entities can begin serious work on creating their budgets and proposed tax rates. Last year the Montague County Tax Appraisal District had to create two sets of values pending the November homestead election so they were happy things were back to just one set.
Certified values are based on property sales made as of Jan. 1, 2026. Chief Appraiser Kim Haralson said the values held up well during the protest hearings, and while minerals went down some there were a lot of new properties added.
New taxable property totaled $87,505,775 for 1,208 properties. Haralson said people appear to be setting up manufactured homes on some of the two-acre tract subdivision and other subdivisions are seeing people start to build houses.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
It is going to be a tough budget season for the Bowie City Council as it works through a draft budget proposal that tries to figure out how to pay for major projects and maintain present operations for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
As per the city charter, City Manager Bert Cunningham presented the budget proposal to the council on July 14, emphasizing without the final certified property values, as well as the final health insurance rates, it truly is a draft. The city staff also await the final bid numbers for the Rock and Pillar drainage project hovering around $2 million with plans to fund it through the budget.
A budget workshop was scheduled for 6 p.m. on July 27 with a public hearing to follow on Aug. 11.
Cunningham said the certified figures may become available by the end of the week, but that is uncertain. Two months ago the city’s preliminary values were up $70,530,035 from the 2025 final values, however, usually the certified values fluctuate slightly from the preliminary numbers, which totaled $497,939,568.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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