(KNZA)--The Hiawatha Community Hospital has scheduled twenty-nine town hall meetings to discuss the need for a proposed 10-year half-cent countywide retailers sales tax for health care services in the county.

A special election on the sales tax initiative is set for May 21.

The meetings will kick off Monday, April 8 and run through May 9.

Nine meetings are scheduled in Hiawatha and six in Horton.  In addition, there will be two each in Everest, Fairview, Morrill, Powhattan, Reserve, Robinson and Sabetha.