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North Ogden council adopts final 2025–26 budget, sets property tax rate at 4.5% increase
Summary
The North Ogden City Council voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 2025-20, approving a 4.5% property tax increase and the final fiscal year 2025–26 budget after staff reconciled sales-tax receipts and departmental savings.
The North Ogden City Council voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance 2025-20, setting a 4.5% property tax increase (rate 0.001363) and approving the city’s final budget for fiscal year 2025–26.
City leaders said the move follows a review of year-end accounts and receipt of stronger-than-expected sales-tax figures that allowed the council to reduce an earlier “worst-case” property-tax projection. The revised projection cuts the originally communicated, higher increase that was sent to the county for Truth-in-Taxation notices and reduces the city’s planned property-tax draw for the coming year.
Mayor (speaking at the meeting) said the 15.61% number originally sent to the county represented a worst-case placeholder while staff completed reconciliations. Staff later reported a 2.64% increase in gross sales-tax collections for the last year and other departmental savings, which the administration used to rework the draft budget.
City staff told council members the recalculation reduces next year’s projected property-tax revenue from roughly $3,481,000 under the worst-case scenario to about $3,156,000 after reconciliations and new sales-tax receipts. Staff estimated the chosen 4.5% increase would produce about $140,000–$150,000 in additional property-tax revenue; the council discussed, but rejected, an option to increase the levy to 5% for a slightly larger revenue window.
Council members asked staff for precise tax-rate language needed for the ordinance submission to Weber County. City staff provided the proposed property-tax rate for a 4.5% increase as 0.001363 and noted a 5% increase would compute to about 0.001369.
Council member JD Dalpez moved to approve Ordinance 2025-20 at a 4.5% property-tax increase; the motion was seconded, placed to a roll call and passed unanimously (yes: Barker; yes: Dalpez; yes: Watson; yes: Pulver; yes: Severing). The ordinance will be submitted to the county with the included rate for final tax-billing notices.
The council and staff emphasized that sales-tax uncertainty remains the primary revenue risk; staff noted pending state administrative items and recent legislation could still affect future collections and that the final audited numbers remain subject to normal year-end adjustments.
Looking ahead, council members said they will continue monitoring sales tax and consider requests to change how property-tax dollars are allocated before those changes are finalized in future meetings.
