The Dawson County Board of Education held its first of two hearings last night to hear the tentative fiscal year 2020 budgets from Financial Director Jamie Ulrich. In the presentation at the May 14 meeting, the tentative general fund budget is $50,696,932 with an ending fund balance of about $5.1 million. It is about a $3 million increase from the FY19 budget that was set at $47,766,471 in June of 2018.