Hays County could be receiving as much as $5.68 million from the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization in the coming weeks, and county commissioners are working on a plan for how to distribute those funds to San Marcos, Kyle, Buda, Wimberley and Dripping Springs.

Commissioner Will Conley, who is also the chairman of CAMPO, said the planning organization is still working on coming up with the exact amount of money that will be coming to Hays County. The organization must also distribute money to Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Travis and Williamson counties.

"I would suggest maybe giving general estimates of the breakdown with the cities' understanding and maybe a disclaimer on the bottom and give them a good understanding [of the amount of money they could receive]—a ballpark—where they could best apply those funds in their city and the county can start doing the same," Conley said.

Kyle Mayor Lucy Johnson was joined by Kyle City Manager Lanny Lambert and Grants Administrator Joshua Moreno at the meeting.

Johnson said the roads included in the city's $36 million bond package approved by voters in 2013 have all been designed to meet federal guidelines. The baseline price for construction of each of the five roads included in the bond package is about $5 million, Johnson said.

Johnson said the city has budgeted as tightly as possible to keep the cost of the bond package as low as possible.

"What we've learned as a city is that if we issued bond funds for all of these roads today, we'd see an initial 20-cent [ad valorem] tax hike within the city," Johnson said. "We don't want this. We could use any help possible from CAMPO or the county to help mitigate the cost to our property taxpayers."

The commissioners directed staff to draft a memo identifying criteria for the project selection process, which will be sent to the cities when it is completed.

Projects receiving money from CAMPO will require a 20-percent match from cities or the state. Projects on the state highway system are typically funded by the Texas Department of Transportation.