HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson Community College Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on the 2019 budget Thursday.

The proposed budget for next year is $76,024,933 on taxes levied of $13,354,950. With that, the mill levy will stay at 22.5 mills.

The budget request is always much higher than the actual amount spent during the year, so the college has some wiggle room in its spending authority if revenues come in higher than expected. The actual expenditures usually total around $44 million to $46 million.

Also Thursday, the board will go over its strategic planning report and hear the annual assessment report for the past year.

The Thursday meeting of the HutchCC Board of Trustees begins at 7 p.m. at the Shears Technology Center on the HutchCC campus.