Hays Post

The stretch of 13th Street from Main to Milner will be a topic of conversation at Thursday’s Hays City Commission work session, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.

After meeting with stakeholders and having a public meeting on the project, several options were made available to the city by Driggs Design Group. Most of the alternatives, however, would push the city well beyond the $1.5 million budgeted for the upgrades.

Options considered included landscape planters, brick crosswalks, brick pavement, decorative street lighting and traffic signal upgrades.

City staff will recommend commissioners approve the base plan, which is estimated at just less than $1.5 million, with the option of replacing sidewalk, curb and parking. That option would add approximately $200,000 to the price tag, which would be taken out of the reserves collected from past projects that have come in under budget.

Additional portions of the project would include just more than $300,000 in storm sewer improvements, which would be funded by the city’s stormwater management fund, and just less than $40,00 in water service improvements, which would be funded from the water/sewer capital fund.

A complete agenda, along with listings of the alternatives proposed by the designer, can be seen HERE.