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Goodhue County presents proposed 2025 budget; median homeowner faces about $58 increase
Summary
County staff presented a proposed roughly $93.6 million 2025 budget and a proposed levy near $45.3 million, saying the county tax rate would fall about 1.23 percentage points while the median homeowner could see an estimated $58 (5.6%) annual tax increase due mainly to value changes and a recent state expansion of the homestead exclusion.
Goodhue County staff presented their proposed 2025 budget and levy at a Truth-in-Taxation hearing, describing a proposed budget of about $93.6 million and a proposed levy near $45.3 million and saying the county tax rate would decline from 42.022% to 40.792%.
County presenters said just over half of the proposed $93.6 million budget would pay personnel services, with small shares for supplies and capital. The presentation showed 53% of levy dollars would fund the general fund, 20% health and human services, 14% public works, 8% capital, 4% debt and 1% waste management.
"When we're paying our 2025 taxes, it's really based off of a value that was established two years prior," said an unidentified county presenter, explaining that valuation work recorded in 2022–2023 sets 2025 assessments and that the county's board of…
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