REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 13, 2026
On this date Mayor Margaret Davis called this regular meeting to order at 6:05 pm. Council members present for the meeting Amy Benson, Keisha Ruff, and Roland Hamilton also present Randy Farley, Ariel McDonald, Codie Selby, Farris Nation, Jerry Barclay, Sandra Barclay, Veronica Kinsel, Jacob Kendallm and Vance Farley. Council Members Heidi Valdez and Cayson George, absent.
Public comment: None.
The council agreed to have Farris Nation present first. Farris informed the council that he had 5 students from Quitaque in his ECA class, and all had passed. He is currently training 4 EMT-Basic and they should be ready by July, with licenses coming in August. He then reported that the AI Datacenter is a complete wreck for Claude EMS. There has been a 250% increase in calls for things like health, crashes, and drug use. He recommends that Quitaque EMS ask Lancium for money to help offset this increase in call volume. He thinks that Quitaque EMS and Turkey EMS will be overrun with calls. RV Parks come in to make space to house these guys and that moves these issues into town. Fire departments are also having trouble due to the increase in calls for wrecks. Farris believes the AI datacenter to be more of a problem than a benefit to the community and recommend that funding be requested to compensate for the use of these public resources.
NO ACTION.
The council considered the minutes of the Regular Meeting March 9, 2026.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROLAND HAMILTON MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES WITH THE AMENDMENT TO ADD “FOR TAX APPRAISAL BOARD”.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEISHA RUFF SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
Ariel reported the Friends account had $4761.35, and the library General account had $3656.59. The City spent $596.10 and the library spent $265.99. The library had 242 patrons, 159 checkouts, and issued one new library cards. The library held seven programs, two Library board meeting, four morning story time, and one afternoon story time. The first Board Meeting was held to discuss accreditation through September of 2026. The final decision for accreditation next year will be made from recently completed annual report with the decision coming in June of 2026. The board also discussed the pasta fundraiser. It made $213 but also had extra donations of $200 and another for $25. The new bookshelf was ordered at a cost of $3966.39 to be delivered in 9-10 weeks. The existing shelf will be donated to the Valley School Library. They also discussed the April programs and set the volunteers for the days. The last item discussed was application for the HEB Summer reading grant and the TCA Grant. Both of these grants would help make the summer reading program better. Angela Farley, Rachel Farley, Amy Benson, Kathy Taylor, Corinna Lavinger, Gaby Santos, and Ariel attended. The second meeting was to discuss how to break down the grants. Story Time had 14 kids and 7 adults. Ariel was trained in a new cataloging system that works with workflows to find titles not in workflows.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROLAND HAMILTON MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE PURCHASE OF THE SHELF AND TO ACCEPT THE LIBRARY REPORT AS PRESENTED.
COUNCIL MEMBER AMY BENSON SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
Randy reported that the ambulance service had eight runs in March and received a $2000 donation for the EMT classes.
COUNCIL MEMBER HEIDI VALDEZ MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE AMBULANCE REPORT AS PRESENTED.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEISHA RUFF SECONDED THE MOTION
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
Chief Codie Selby reported that the fire department had three runs and a meeting to distribute the new gear. He reported that there are currently two trucks in service and one should be repaired soon. He went to a meeting last week in Floydada for a Southern Panhandle task force.
COUNCIL ROLAND HAMILTON MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORT AS PRESENTED.
COUNCIL MEMBER AMY BENSON SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
No proposal from Culligan, Randy reported that Brady Keller was working with the Culligan engineering team to fit our process in a 45ft shipping container.
The water purchase agreement has been approved by Texas Parks and Wildlife with a few modifications to the customer service agreement.
COUNCIL MEMBER HEIDI VALDEZ MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE WATER PURCHASE AGREEMENT WITH TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE.
COUNCIL MEMBER AMY BENSON SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
No documents for consideration of making Quitaque a sanctuary city for the unborn.
The city administrator’s report was reviewed by the council.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROLAND HAMILTON MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEISHA RUFF SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROLAND HAMILTON MADE A MOTION TO PAY THE BILLS.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEISHA RUFF SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED WITH ROLAND HAMILTON AND KEISHA RUFF VOTING FOR AND AMY BENSON VOTING FOR BUT ABSTAINING FROM VOTING TO PAY THE VALLEY TRIBUNE.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROLAND HAMILTON MADE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEISHA RUFF SECONDED THE MOTION.
MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:26pm.
THE ABOVE MINUTES ARE A COPY OF THE MINUTES TAKEN AT THE REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING HELD APRIL 13, 2026.
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MAYOR, MARGARET DAVIS CITY ADMINISTRATOR, RANDY FARLEY