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Haysville schedules July 14 hearing on special assessments for two subdivisions; bond sale planned for September
Summary
The Haysville City Council set a public hearing for July 14 on final cost assessment rolls for Wheatland Village Addition and Grand and Plaza Addition, and staff outlined plans to issue GO bonds in September to retire temporary notes.
The Haysville City Council on an evening meeting approved notices to begin the special assessment process for paving, sewer, water distribution and stormwater improvements in the Wheatland Village Addition and the Grand and Plaza Addition and scheduled a public hearing for Monday, July 14.
City financial adviser Brett Shogren told the council the projects are complete and final costs have been submitted. He said the documents in the council packet include the statement of final costs, the assessment roll certification and the proposed form of notice that will be mailed to current property owners and published in the Haysville Sun Times.
Shogren said property owners will have until Wednesday, Aug. 11, to prepay any or all assessments. Amounts not prepaid will be financed by general-obligation (GO) bonds sold on Sept. 8 with a planned close on Sept. 30; bond proceeds will be used to pay off the temporary notes on Oct. 1. Shogren said the city will submit assessment documentation to Sedgwick County in late August 2026 and collection of special-assessment taxes will begin on property tax statements in December 2026.
The council voted to approve the final cost assessment roll notices and to set the July 14 public hearing. The hearing will allow written or oral objections before the city considers an ordinance finalizing and spreading the assessments to the properties in those additions.
The action begins a multi-step statutory process: publish notice, mail statements of proposed costs to property owners, hold the public hearing, then (if the council proceeds) adopt an ordinance levying the assessments and sell bonds to convert temporary financing to long-term debt. Property owners who prepay will have their prepayments credited against the bond principal, Shogren said.
Council discussion during the meeting focused on scheduling and whether the two projects could be handled together; staff confirmed they would be handled in a single motion and schedule.
A public hearing notice will be published and mailed as required; the council will consider the ordinance at a subsequent meeting after the July 14 hearing.
