City welcomes new administrator

Clarendon’s new city administrator started work Monday and has been making the rounds meeting people and getting more familiar with the community.
Brian Barboza has about three years of experience as a city administrator but is no stranger to his new city, having attended Clarendon College here.
“It felt like home when I was here in 2012,” Barboza said. “I’m definitely a Panhandle boy.”
Barboza grew up in Hereford and began working parttime in Hereford’s street department for about five years while he was a student. He graduated from Amarillo College with a degree in Criminal Justice, but the Hereford city manager convinced him to consider public administration as a career. That led Barboza to get a bachelor’s degree from West Texas A&M University and then a Certificate of Public Management from Texas Tech University.
He then spent more time with Hereford in the street and water departments before being hired as the city administrator in Silverton in 2020 and then moving to Knox City in 2022.
Barboza is looking forward to wrapping up the ongoing Downtown Revitalization Project and the east side street project. Then his goals include a second round of Downtown Revitalization in the 200 block of Kearney and more street improvements. He also said he hopes to see Clarendon be able to sustain itself water wise in the future.