By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

It’s a short agenda, just two items for Hays city commissioners to review during their work session this Thursday evening.

The first agenda item is an update of stormwater activities.

City Stormwater Specialist Steve Walters will review the National Pollutant Discharge System permit and which requirements the city still needs to meet. Walters will offer recommendations on how to do meet the requirements.

There will also be a look ahead to large stormwater projects proposed for next year, according to Assistant Hays City Manager Paul Briseno.

“These include levy repair upgrades, the Lincoln Draw project engineering with the Army Corps of Engineers and the 13th Street stormwater project from Main to Milner, which will be done in collaboration with the reconstruction of 13th in that area, as well as the Eighth Street drainage project.

“The total cost of of these major projects would be roughly $1.3 million. Those funds are budgeted in the city’s 2015 budget,” Briseno said.

Commissioners also will hear a bid recommendation from I.D. Creech, director of Public Works, for storm sewer structures repair.

“Roughly 100 structures need to be rehabilitated — manholes and inlets, the structures adjacent to city streets,” Briseno explained.

Utility Solutions LLC of Basehor has submitted the low bid of $37,180, considerably below the engineer’s estimate of $70,980. The project would be funded from the stormwater utility line item.

The work session begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night in Hays City Hall, 1507 Main. Click HERE for the Oct. 2 meeting agenda.

Next week’s city commission meeting, Oct. 9, has been canceled due to the lack of a quorum.