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Council adopts updated 2025 tax-rate ordinances after county assessment revisions
Summary
Following updated St. Louis County assessment numbers, the council amended and adopted ordinances levying 2025 property tax rates for the city and library district; staff reported a slight residential rate decrease and shifting commercial rates due to assessment adjustments and Hancock Amendment constraints.
Webster Groves City Council on Sept. 16 adopted amended ordinances setting the city's and library district's 2025 property tax rates after staff received updated St. Louis County assessment rolls.
Director Ed Donovan told the council the county released updated assessments the previous day and the state auditor returned them at 4 p.m., producing late changes staff incorporated into the amended bills. Donovan said the combined residential rate was 0.582, down from 0.618 in 2024 (a decrease of 0.036), and that most commercial rates rose after the board of equalization reduced commercial assessments by about $5.2 million. "The Hancock Amendment regulates our revenue increase, and it's capped this year at 2.9 percent," Donovan said.
Council members adopted an amendment to bill 9286 and then approved the amended ordinance by roll call. They also amended and adopted bill 9287, which sets the Webster Groves Library District rate; staff noted commercial-rate changes affected the library's revenue estimate and presented a projected library revenue of about $1,850,000.
The council did not change personal-property rates. Adopted tax rates will be applied for collections in 2025 under procedures laid out in the ordinances.
