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Borger council approves IT interlocal, considers ETJ release and affirms regional mutual-aid participation
Summary
At its Nov. 18 meeting the Borger City Council approved an interlocal IT services agreement with the city of Fridge for $30,000 per year, received staff presentation and a motion to introduce ordinance O-016-25 to release a parcel from Borger’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, and moved to approve resolution R-018-25 authorizing participation in a regional mutual-aid agreement and designating the mayor as representative; several motions recorded in the transcript do not include recorded vote tallies.
The Borger City Council recorded several formal actions on Nov. 18.
The council approved an interlocal agreement for information-technology services with the city of Fridge (transcript spelling). City Manager Gary Scally described the contract as a flat-rate arrangement: “They’ll pay us $30,000 a year to provide the services,” he said. The contract caps hours and excludes overtime (overtime hours would be billed separately). An unidentified council member moved to approve the agreement and the city manager was authorized to execute it; the chair announced the motion passed.
Council members also heard an explanation and a motion to introduce ordinance O-016-25, which would release a small portion of the Mr. W Fireworks property from Borger’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). Staff explained that a 2023 state-law change allows property owners to request removal from an ETJ; the ordinance was moved and seconded. The transcript does not record a final roll-call tally or the clerk’s announcement of the ordinance’s final disposition in that segment.
The council considered resolution R-018-25 to authorize participation in the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission’s regional mutual-aid agreement and to designate the mayor as the city’s representative for mutual-aid matters. Scally outlined how dispatch, emergency management staff and the MAC (multi-agency coordination center) coordinate mutual aid; he also noted “the mayor, by state law, is the director of emergency management,” but that operational duties are typically delegated to the emergency management coordinator. An unidentified council member moved the resolution; the transcript records the motion but does not include a published vote tally in the recorded segments.
Other procedural items: an unidentified council member moved to approve consent agenda items 6–9 earlier in the meeting. The meeting concluded after a motion to adjourn, which passed on a recorded voice vote.
What the transcript does and does not show: several motions and authorizations are recorded (interlocal agreement approval is explicitly noted as passing in the transcript); for at least two agenda items (the ETJ ordinance introduction and the mutual-aid resolution) the transcript records the motions and seconds but does not include a posted roll-call tally in the supplied segments. Any final ordinances, resolutions or contract signatures should be confirmed in the official minutes and the signed contract files.
