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Bloomington adopts 6.96% tax levy, final 2026 budget after months of refinement
Summary
The Bloomington City Council voted to approve a 6.96% increase in the city portion of the 2026 property tax levy and adopted the final general fund budget; council recorded a 6-1 vote on the levy resolution and discussed offsets and service impacts.
Bloomington City Council on Monday adopted the city's final 2026 property tax levy and general fund budget, approving a 6.96% increase in the city's levy.
City Manager Zach Walker and Finance presenter Kari Carlson told the council that staff had worked through a yearlong priority-based budgeting process and used a one-time transfer from the strategic priorities fund to lower the levy from a recent proposed 7.48% to 6.96% for 2026. "We're proposing a final levy of 6.96%," Carlson said during her presentation.
The council heard that much of…
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