The discovery of a damaged drainage culvert underneath a section of Kyle’s Bunton Creek Road improvement project is forcing city leaders to immediately spend up to $50,000 to fix the problem.

Officials are now scrambling to fix the damaged culvert prior to finishing the Bunton Creek Road project, which is projected to be completed before the start of the 2017 Hays CISD school year.

Leon Barba, Kyle city engineer, said during an emergency meeting the problem involves a culvert along Bunton Cr...