Bowie County OKs software upgrades, polling place changes

NEW BOSTON, Texas—The Bowie County Clerks Office will soon be getting some improved, affordable, modern land record computer software systems.

Commissioners agreed Monday to allow the clerks’ office to buy new computer software systems from Tyler Technologies of Yarmouth, Maine.

Bowie County Clerk Tina Petty said the new software will save the county about $30,000, adding that the new material is also user-friendly enough not to require too much of a learning curve.

Petty said she and her staff were able to observe work with the new software by recently visiting the Titus County Clerks Office—which is now working with similar land record software.

In other business, commissioners approved recommendations for consolidating some polling place re-locations in Precinct 1 and Precinct 3 for the upcoming Nov. 7 special election.

Precinct 1 Commissioner Sammy Stone recommended that Precinct 1B be relocated from the CK Bender Elementary School at 2300 Lincoln Ave. and placed at the Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church at 2921 Norris Cooley Drive. He also recommended that Precinct 2A also be relocated from Liberty Eylau Pre-Kindergarten at 3105 Norris Cooley Drive and placed at Saint Paul as well.

Precinct 3 Commissioner James Strain asked that Precinct 21 be relocated from SprinAghill Baptist Church at 687 Farm-to-Market Road 114 in DeKalb, Texas, to the Oakgrove Lighthouse Church at 194 Farmto-Market Road 1326 (in DeKalb).

Following some discussion, commissioners approved both measures.