Bowie City Council to Hear 2024-25 Outside Audit, Address Walker Resignation

Mathis, West & Huffines will present the city’s 2024–25 outside audit to the Bowie City Council at a regular session beginning at 6:00 p.m. March 10 in the council chambers, and the council will also consider the resignation of Councilor Brandon Walker, an action that starts a 30-day clock to fill the seat with the current term running out in November. The audit and the resignation are both listed on the March 10 agenda distributed in advance to council members.

“Staff from Mathis, West and Huffines accounting firm will present the fiscal year-end report,” the BowieNewsOnline agenda summary notes, identifying the outside auditor and the purpose of the presentation. The city’s March 10 agenda lists the 2024–25 outside audit as a presentation item; the full Council Agenda Package, including staff reports and attachments, is posted to the City of Bowie Public Portal and is published in advance of meetings under the city’s standing posting schedule.

BowieNewsOnline also reports the resignation item precisely: “Also in new business, the resignation of Councilor Brandon Walker will be presented. The city has 30 days to fill the vacancy. The term runs out in November.” The provided materials do not state the reason for Walker’s resignation, whether a written resignation has been filed with the clerk, or whether the vacancy will be filled by council appointment or a special election, beyond the 30-day requirement referenced in the agenda summary.

The March 10 packet also schedules a comprehensive plan update. “Public Management’s Kaitlyn Higgins-Drake, will provide the council an update on the comprehensive plan being prepared by the company for Bowie,” BowieNewsOnline reports. City officials, the agenda summary says, “have been conducting planning sessions and public meetings in recent months as part of the development of a long-term master plan,” but the materials provided in the news excerpt do not include specific timelines, recommendations, or the update’s detailed contents.

Procedural details for public access are explicitly documented on the City of Bowie site: an agenda is posted Thursday afternoon prior to a Monday meeting and contains links to staff reports that together form the Council Agenda Package. The city began using new agenda-management software in June 2022 and directs users to the Public Portal for meeting agendas, tentative agendas, status reports, and minutes; the city clerk can be reached at 301-809-3029 for further information.

The BowieNewsOnline excerpt that lists the March 10 items also includes a broader set of items in the same text, such as “Annual termite renewal agreement,” an “election and lease agreement between the county elections office and the Nocona Hospital District for the May vote,” and detailed precinct requests for equipment sales and fence-line clearing, and it reports that “Montague County Commissioners will meet in regular session at 9 a.m. on March 9.” Those lines appear in the same BowieNewsOnline release but do not explicitly tie each item to Bowie City Council business in the provided excerpts.

The council meeting follows the city’s standard agenda order used in prior sessions, with presentations and new business scheduled before adjournment. With the 2024–25 audit presentation and Walker’s resignation both on the March 10 docket, councilors will face immediate financial reporting and representation decisions within the statutory 30-day vacancy window and with the seat’s current term scheduled to end in November.