VOTER INFORMATION AND POLLING PLACES,

Voting Information for today Bowie County, Texas

Texarkana residents will vote on nine city charter amendments, as follows.

City Charter Amendment 1:

Revising the City Charter, Article II, Section 8—Meetings of the Council. Providing for regular, special and emergency meetings of the city council and the manner in which the meetings are scheduled or called. Designating all meetings of city boards and commissions to be public meetings subject to rules and regulations of the city charter, state law and adopted rules of procedure. Permitting the city council to adopt rules and procedures for public comments to be heard during regular council meetings.

City Charter Amendment 2:

Revising the City Charter, Article IV, Section 1—Administrative departments. Removing from the current charter the listing of specific department names and providing that the city may create, abolish or combine departments and assign or transfer duties of any department.

City Charter Amendment 3:

Revising the City Charter, Article X, Section 2—City attorney. Providing for the city council to appoint a city attorney to serve at its pleasure and to be its legal adviser and removing all other stated duties and authorities of the city attorney.

City Charter Amendment 4:

Revising the City Charter, Article II, Section 10—Annual audit. Providing for the completed annual audit report to be posted to the city’s website.

City Charter Amendment

Revising the City Charter, Article II, Section 4—The mayor. Providing for additional authority for the Mayor to vote in the event of a vacancy in council membership, a Councilmember not voting or the absence of a Councilmember.

City Charter Amendment 6:

Revising the City Charter, Article XVII, Section 12—Rearrangement and renumbering of Charter. Providing for additional authority for the Council by ordinance to substitute appropriate terms to bring the Charter into conformity with state or federal law.

City Charter Amendment 7:

Revising the City Charter, Article II, Section 9—Council Rules. Changing the requirement of the affirmative vote of four members to the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the members present and voting for adoption of any ordinance or resolution, unless the Charter, city ordinance or state law requires otherwise; and providing for a member to abstain from participation on a matter when intending to abstain from voting and to notify the mayor when intending to abstain.

City Charter Amendment 8:

Revising the City Charter, Article II, Section 2—Number, selection, term of office and remuneration and Article II, Section 6—Vacancies. Providing for three-year terms of office for the Mayor and Councilmembers; providing a transition plan from twoyear terms to three-year terms; providing for filling a vacancy in council membership by mandatory special election when the unexpired term of the vacant office is greater than twelve (12) months or by optional appointment when the unexpired term of the vacant office is twelve (12) months or less; and renumbering existing Charter sections providing for Council composition, a person filling a vacancy serving for the remainder of the unexpired term and procedures to raise council membership to a quorum when the membership of the Council is reduced to less than a quorum.

City Charter Amendment

9: Revising the City Charter, Article III, Section 2—Removal. Providing for the deletion of the requirement to appoint the City Manager for an indefinite term; providing for elimination of gender references; and making no other changes to the removal procedures currently contained in Article III, Section 2.

Red Lick will choose new city board members, and residents in the DeKalb Independent School District will vote on a bond issue.

All Texas voters will decide whether to adopt seven amendments to the state constitution.

Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the following places. For more information, call the county elections office at 903-628-6810.

Precinct and address:

1A/4E— Goree Academic Learning Center, 3201 Lincoln St., Texarkana

2A/1B— St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist Church, 2921 Norris Cooley Drive, Texarkana

2B/4D/5A— Westlawn Elementary School, 410 Westlawn Drive, Texarkana

2C— Theron Jones Early Literacy Center, 2600 W. 15th St., Texarkana

3A— Collins Memorial Building, 3000 Texas Blvd., Texarkana

3B— Texarkana City Hall, 220 Texas Blvd., Texarkana

4B— Spring Lake Park School, 4324 Ghio Fish Blvd., Texarkana

4C/4A/2D/5B— Texarkana College, 2500 N. Robison Rd., Texarkana

5C— Pleasant Grove High School, 5406 McKnight Rd., Texarkana

6A— First Baptist Church, 3015 Moores Lane, Texarkana

6B— Pleasant Grove Middle School, 5605 Cooks Lane, Texarkana

7— Wake Village City Hall, 624 Burma Road, Wake Village

8A— Liberty-Eylau School of Success, 766 Macedonia Road, Texarkana

8B— Eylau Methodist Church, 5214 S. U.S. Hwy. 59, Texarkana

8C= Buchanan Baptist Church, 3635 Buchanan Loop Road, Texarkana

9— Nash Elementary School, 100 Burton St., Nash

10— Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Department, 3123 FM 559, Texarkana

11— Leary School, 9500 W. New Boston Road, Leary

12— Red Springs Baptist Church, 1101 FM 991, Texarkana

13/30— Hooks High School, 401 E. Ave. A, Hooks

14— Bowie County Courthouse, 710 James Bowie Drive, New Boston

15— Malta School, 6178 W. U.S. Hwy. 82, DeKalb

16— Redwater City Hall, 120 Redwater Blvd. W., Redwater

17— Maud Community Center, 135 Main St., Maud

18— First Baptist Church, 506 McCoy Blvd., New Boston

19— Old Salem Baptist Church, 6199 FM 1840, New Boston

20— Masonic Lodge, 101 N.E. Bowie St., DeKalb

22/21— Oakgrove Lighthouse Church, 194 FM 1326, DeKalb

25/24— DeKalb High School, 153 S.W. Maple St., DeKalb

27— Simms Baptist Church, 105 CR 4216, Simms

28— Crossroads Community Center, 10650 FM 561, Simms

29— Wards Creek Baptist Church, 17 CR 4239, Simms

Texarkana, Ark.

City residents will elect three school board members and decide whether Texarkana, Ark., School District can restructure its bond debt to finance building a new middle school without raising taxes.

Chrystal Marlar is challenging incumbent school board member Laney Harris for a three-year term in Zone 5, and Lissa Henry is challenging incumbent Roger Douglas for a one-year term in Zone 6. Jesse Buchanan is running unopposed for a three-year term in the Zone 3 seat.

The bond restructure item would generate $15.6 million that, combined with $6 million in partnership funds from the state, would pay for a proposed new middle school for sixth-, seventhand eighth-graders.

The move would not increase the district’s 38.9-mill tax but extend the retirement date on the school’s current bonds by 30 years. The rate includes 25 mills for maintenance and operations, with the remaining 13.9 mills going toward debt service.

Polls will be open 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the following places. All polls will be Vote Centers, meaning any registered voter in TASD can vote at any polling site and will receive the proper ballot. For more information, call the County Clerk’s office at 870-7741501.

Name and address:

College Hill— Highland Church of Christ, 1705 Highland St. Greenwich Village— Christ United Methodist Church, 5204 S. Rondo Road

Hickory Street and Hickory

Street South— Hickory Street Baptist Church, 2923 Hickory St. North Heights— Central Baptist Church, 2117 E. 35th St. Ozan Inghram— Jamison Center of Kindness, 1101 Couch St. Rondo— Rondo United Methodist Church, 2335 N. Rondo Road

Sandflat— Bridging the Gap Neighborhood Center, 209 E. 14th St.

Sugar Hill— Sugar Hill United Methodist Church, 1621 Sugar Hill Road Union— Cornerstone Baptist Church, 3900 Union Road