(KLZA)--Pawnee  County Commissioners approved the budget for Fiscal Year 2020 as presented during public hearings August 27 when they met last Tuesday.  

The property tax levy request amounts to $1,936, 234. The property tax rate levy will be 25.8665-cents per $100 of assessed valuation.  The total operating budget of Pawnee County will exceed last years by 10-percent. 

In other business Pawnee County Memorial Hospital Administrator Ruth Stephens met with the Commissioners to discuss the Board of Trustees of the hospital. 

Following the discussion the Board voted to expand the number of Trustees for the hospital from three to five.  

Jan Buchholz  and Jackie Hippen were appointed to the new Trustee positions.