Road delay won’t slow down U.S. Foods opening
Hays County Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved an amendment to its funding agreement with U.S. Foodservice to extend an August deadline for completing an expansion of County Road 118.
Under a Chapter 381 economic development agreement, the court agreed to front the $2,689,160 estimated cost of widening Turnersville Road and CR 118 between the interstate and the site of the food distributor’s forthcoming Buda distribution facility. Tax revenue generated by the facility will be used to pay back the road construction cost over a 20 year period.
Turnersville Road will be completed in time for the plant’s opening in August, Pct. 2 Commissioner Mark Jones said, but the county and the city of Buda may need more time to complete the planned improvements to CR 118.
U.S. Foods agreed to an extension of the county’s deadline, letting officials off the hook for all or part of the road costs if it had defaulted under the agreement.
Construction of the 290,000-square-foot, $50 million facility is “moving along handsomely,” U.S. Foods spokesperson Howard Faulkenberg said last month. The company expects to move in in late August.
Road construction won’t delay that opening, Jones said, because U.S. Food trucks will still be able to come and go on Turnersville Road.
Miss Kyle now Miss Hays Co.
Kyle-based Clearly Classy Events has been hired to organize this fall’s Miss Kyle Pageant, which will be expanded as the Miss Hays County Pageant, pageant director Kesa Larsen said.
Since the pageant’s inception in 2006, competition was restricted to residents who lived within Hays CISD or were current students at Texas State University. Now it is open to all Hays County residents.
The pageant will offer $4,000 prizes to ten different young women, organizers said. The event is scheduled for Oct. 8.
