Following a three-and-a-half-hour work session Monday night, the Great Bend City Council approved publishing the city’s budget for 2018. The public budget hearing is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21, prior to the council’s regular meeting in the council chambers at City Hall. The nearly $27 million spending package is based on a mill levy of 52.05, up 3.55 mills from 2017.
City Council OKs budget
Mill increase helps fund Police, Fire departments
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