OMHC board asking increase in levy amount

Several recent community meetings in Odessa have addressed the financial situation at the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center. The hospital’s board of commissioners voted to increase the requested levy amount for maintenance and operations by one dollar per thousand dollars worth of real estate value. Levies for the hospital and for the school district will run in February. If passed, the levy amounts will be collected beginning the following year.

The board of commissioners, nervous about requesting too much of an increase, opted for the one dollar increase in an effort to stem the financial lo...