By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
Two local property annexations have been approved by the Hays City Commission along with a resolution of support for housing tax credits for potential low-income housing.
High Plains Farm Credit FLCA owns the two properties adjacent to 11oo E. 43rd, which will be annexed into the city. High Plains plans to relocate its Hays office on Vine Street to the location north of Interstate 70. The agency will remodel the former Doerfler’s Harley Davidson building and construct a parking lot on the adjacent vacant lot.
Also to be annexed is the BBJ, LLC property, tracts 1, 2 and 4, located near 230th Avenue and 55th Street. The land is contiguous to the city limits. The action was triggered by the recent installation of city utility services and infrastructure necessary to serve the property.
The commission also agreed to issue a resolution of support for state low-income housing tax credits on behalf of Old Town Development, Inc., a multi-family real estate developer from Kansas City.
The developer has a purchase option on an eight-acre parcel near 22nd and Wheatland Avenue and intends to construct a 40-unit, income-restricted, apartment complex called Wheatland Commons.
The most recent housing survey for Hays shows a need for 1,000 low-income units are needed.
In other business, the commission:
• Authorized a contract with CC Steel, LLC, Maple Plains, MN, for $372,200 for the completion of sanitary sewer point repairs originally scheduled for the year 2022. The company originally awarded the bid went out of business before it began the Hays project. Hays has been reimbursed by American Southern Insurance Company.
• Accepted the 2022 audit for the city by Adams Brown. No deficits were found.