By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

It was likely the shortest Hays city commission work session on record.

Commissioners spent just three minutes and 1 second on the single agenda item presented Thursday night by Jeff Crispin, director of water resources.

Several older areas of Hays have sanitary sewer lines in need of repair.

Some locations are an easy fix, where protruding taps and large vegetation root balls can be cut out by city workers without having to dig up the sewer.

But 26 other places will require replacement of sections of the line, according to Crispin.

“Other abandonments are caused by pipe collapses, holes or joint offsets can only be fixed by digging down to the failure spot and replacing a section of the line,” Crispin explained. “Basically the area is south of 27th Street and west of Vine Street.”

The cleaning of the portions noted by Crispin and subsequent video examinations could not occur.

Crispin presented four bids for the project.  The low bid by M&D Excavating of Hays is for $198, 380, which will be considered by commissioners at their meeting next Tuesday.

The commission will meet Nov. 20 due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Vice-Mayor Henry Schwaller was absent from the work session.