Council recognizes summer interns; interns describe downtown outreach and process improvements

BORGER, Texas — The Borger City Council recognized four city summer interns during its Aug. 5 meeting and heard brief reports on their projects across multiple departments.

Intern Emery (returning for a third summer) described creating a small program to automate the update of downtown address and owner lists. “The program would curate an Excel spreadsheet with all of those addresses, the owners,” Emery said, adding that the tool populates care-of fields when a business is the owner and saves staff time on repeated manual lookups.

Other interns reported on projects in fire, emergency management, finance and IT. One intern helped implement an inventory system in EMS by barcode-tagging medical supplies and entering counts into a database so usage triggers reorders. Another assisted with a software conversion of records into cloud storage and helped reconcile credit-card transactions during a process change.

Council members and staff praised the internships as a way to expose youth to municipal government functions and to deliver practical support across departments. Staff said interns were paid positions and that the program provides hands-on experience with event coordination, public outreach and back-office systems.