By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

Representatives of the Hays Recreation Commission will be at Thursday’s Hays City Commission work session. Roger Bixenman, HRC Superintendent, along with Jeff Boyle, Director of Parks, will present a year-end performance and revenue review of the city’s swimming pools–the Hays Aquatic Park and the neighborhood Wilson Pool. A similar assessment of the Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex will also be provided.

The city owns the pools and park, which are all managed by HRC. The city’s contract with the Hays Recreation Commission for operations at the sports complex is up for renewal in 2018.

According to Assistant City Manager Jacob Wood, most of the Dec. 15 work session involves “year-end cleanup items that we do on an annual basis.”

Other items on the Dec. 15 agenda include information about a proposed new internet fiber network build for the wastewater treatment plant. According to IT Director Chad Ruder, it will be necessary to run fiber to the wastewater facility in order to fully handle the data provided by the new SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)system which is part of the plant’s rebuild.

An update of the airport capital improvement plan will also be reviewed as part of the city’s five-year-plan with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Click here for the complete Dec. 15 agenda.