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Borger city manager reports stronger EMS revenue, steady utilities and ongoing infrastructure work
Summary
City Manager reviewed January finances, higher-than-expected EMS collections, a new municipal-court youth diversion line item, water and sales-tax trends, and progress on multiple capital projects including pool, ADA work and wastewater upgrades.
The Borger city manager told the council on Jan. 21 that emergency medical services collections and several utility and capital projects are tracking ahead of budget and that staff continue to respond to recent winter weather.
The report said EMS collections are on track to total $1,577,000 this fiscal year—about $361,000 more than the amount budgeted—and that January receipts included $124,000 in one month. The manager also described a newly accounted municipal-court “local youth diversion” line item. “We have been collecting that. It had been being allocated into just the fine line item. We are supposed to account for that separately,” the city manager said, adding the city expects roughly $30,000 a year from the program.
The city manager framed other…
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