Geary County Commissioners are pushing back their 2016 County budget hearing to August 31.

An increase in the property tax levy is very possible, but the proposed spending plan is still a work in progress.

Ben Bennett, Commission Chairman, stated, “Right now there’s going to be an increase in the County budget. I don’t know how much. It’s been as high as 10 mills but we’ve really come down from that. Hopefully it won’t be too much. We’ll have to figure out where we are with it, and what it will be.”

One of the factors  has been the reduction in state funding for counties.