There are two more community meetings this week in WaKeeney to discuss the financial situation facing Trego County’s Lemke Memorial Hospital.

The meetings are Monday and Thursday nights at 7 o’clock at Western Electric Cooperative.

Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital is asking for $1.8 million in no-fund warrants issued by the Trego County Commission. Repayment would require a county mill levy of about eight mills for four years.

The hospital will get a larger allocation from Trego County this year, a boost from $135,000 to more than$200,000.

Hospital Administrator Harold Courtois is also asking the county to move ahead with a ballot election for  a 1% sales tax.

The hospital’s budget has a shortfall of about $600,000, due to an unexpected reduction in Medicare reimbursements.