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Borger emergency management honored regionally; new command vehicle, certifications and CJIS audit highlighted
Summary
City staff reported receiving a Panhandle regional Emergency Management Jurisdictional Excellence Award, completion of a CJIS audit for dispatch, near-complete outfitting of a new command vehicle, and multiple fire and EMS certifications.
BORGER, Texas — The city manager told the council on Sept. 16 that Borger’s emergency-management program received the Panhandle Regional Emergency Preparedness Conference’s Jurisdictional Excellence Award and that several public-safety trainings and equipment upgrades are complete or underway.
The manager said the city will display its new command vehicle at an upcoming event; the vehicle now has radios, satellite connectivity and telephone capability, and city IT staff were finishing software installation. He noted that dispatch successfully completed a CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) security audit, and that Whitney Schultz completed EMDQ quality-assurance certification for dispatch call reviews.
Fire personnel also logged multiple certifications: Lieutenant Wiley completed rope-rescue awareness and operations certification; paramedic Kevin Hardcastle obtained HAZMAT technician certification; and a firefighter reached an intermediate structural suppression certificate after four years of service. Staff also reported mitigation-team members were chosen for a symposium and that an engine was deployed to the Abilene area for fire preparedness. The fire marshal’s office was recognized for emergency-management work, and the manager said the city’s TML communications award partially reflected that outreach.
Police and school-resource-officer (SRO) updates were presented as well: the council was told the district remains one of the few with sworn officers at all campuses and that new SRO vehicle markings had been applied.
No formal council action was required; staff presented the achievements as information.
