By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
After a three-week break, Hays city commissioners will meet in a work session Thursday night.
The next step - setting a public hearing - will be discussed in establishing an RHID (Rural Housing Improvement District) for the former St. Joseph School, 210 W. 13th Street.
Commissioners will also look ahead with Erin Giebler, human resources director, to the 2022 city employee health insurance plan.
Two quotes have been received from the city's current provider, Blue Cross Blue Shield, but there is a wide gap in the costs, according to Collin Bielser, assistant city manager.
As improvements continue at the intersection of 230th and 55th Avenues preparing for a new travel center and completion of the Northwest Business Corridor, the city will gain four new water customers.
"(The improvements) created a conflict with an existing Rural Water District #2 water main, and it would have been a costly replacement.
"The city's water main infrastructure is now up there due to the truck plaza. So the Rural Water District and the city and the four customers that are going to be impacted have agreed to switch from rural water district territory to city territory," Bielser explained.
"So we'll be taking on four new customers and some minor infrastructure that serves those customers."
Other agenda items include discussion of replacing a 25-year-old reuse pump house and a request from the Kiwanis Club for a city flag pole dedication.
The complete October 21 agenda is available here.
The work session starts at 6:30 p.m. in Hays City Hall, 1507 Main.