The Carroll City Council has scheduled the public hearing on their Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 proposed maximum property tax levy for Monday, Feb. 13. Since 2019, Iowa law has required cities to notify the public of changes to municipal levies. The levy rate published for the public hearing is $10.48968 per $1,000 of taxable valuation. However, Finance Director Laura Schaefer says that figure does not reflect all of the city’s levies.
There are more than a dozen levies available for cities, but Carroll does not utilize all of them. Notably missing from the public notice is the debt service levy, which would bring the overall tax rate from the City of Carroll to $11.89768 for FY24. The law was passed to improve transparency for taxpayers, but Mayor Mark Beardmore and At-Large Councilman LaVern Dirkx say it has only muddied the waters further.
A copy of the City of Carroll’s FY24 proposed maximum property tax levy public notice can be found included below this story. Following the Feb. 13 public hearing, the city council will need to hold another public hearing on the entire FY24 budget before submitting it to the Iowa Department of Management no later than March 31.
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