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City may allow side-by-sides for city streets
Hays Daily News
Side-by-side alternative vehicles may show up before long on the city streets of Hays, if enthusiasts of the small, nimble non-automobiles get their wish.
Used primarily for sport or agriculture, the smaller than standard, four-wheel vehicles are popular with farmers and with those who like to play on sand dunes and off-road.
At Thursday’s regular work session of the city commission, a group of residents asked the commissioners to approve an ordinance allowing them on the streets of Hays.
The vehicles, some of which can go upwards of 65 miles an hour, already are legal on the highways of Kansas, as well as in the towns of Ellis, Victoria, Ness City, Garden City, Dodge City and other cities in western Kansas.
Hays Daily News
With interest rates as low as they are, the city of Hays will likely go to market March 25 to sell $6.795 million in general obligation bonds to pay toward the $13.2 million reconstruction of N. Vine Street.
If approved, the 25-year term bonds will carry an estimated debt service of about $338,553 annually, according to Kim Rupp, city finance director.
With interest rates at record lows, the city’s bond adviser is estimating an interest rate of 1.77% for the city, said David Arteberry with Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. of Wichita, “which is historically just an incredibly low interest rate. We can’t guarantee that it’s going to be at that level, but that’s currently where interest rates are.”
Hays Daily News
Filled with anticipation for the new semester and re-energized after taking advantage of the privilege to rest and enjoy a long winter break, I find myself thinking about some of the people I admire and/or have gotten to know better this past year because of the pandemic. Here are just a few: our Hays city commissioners, our county health administrator and a group I refer to as our city rallying team.
Our city commissioners – Michael Berges, Sandy Jacobs, Ron Mellick, Shaun Musil and Mason Ruder – have always had important, and sometimes controversial, decisions to make, but who could have prepared for 2020? Just when the emotionally-charged debates over the roundabouts began to settle, along came the pandemic, and among the many critical decisions that had to be made was the mask ordinance.