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City manager reports steady finances, details street, pool and wildfire projects
Summary
City Manager Garrett told the council the general fund and EMS revenues are tracking near budget, outlined a May 27 opening target for the Johnson Park pool, described a chip-seal/slurry-seal pavement program and summarized recent wildfire mitigation and grant activity.
City Manager Garrett told the Borger City Council on March 18 that general-fund revenues are “trending slightly above budget” while expenditures are “trending slightly below” and that EMS revenues are performing above projections.
Garrett said sales tax was “actually down 11% in March, but we’re up in … February” and overall year-to-date collections remain near last year’s levels. He cautioned that some financial charts are skewed by a “big one-time transfer” for capital projects and said he will present a modified chart next month that removes that transfer for clearer operating comparisons.
The report included a series of project updates. Garrett said work at the Johnson Park Youth Center pool has reached the plumbing stage and is “on slate to have that turned over to us April 18,” with a soft opening and a target public opening on May 27 so lifeguard training can be completed. City Hall renovation remains in progress; staff discovered added circuits over decades are nearing the…
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