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Pleasant Hill holds special hearing on proposed property tax levy after withdrawal from DART
Summary
Pleasant Hill held a March 24 special session to open the required public hearing on its proposed property tax levy after reallocating part of the former transit levy following the citys withdrawal from DART. No levy vote was taken; a second hearing and final budget resolution are required before certification.
Pleasant Hill Mayor Sara Kurovski opened a special City Council session at 5:30 p.m. on March 24 to hold a public hearing on the citys proposed property tax levy.
City Manager Ben Champ told the council the State of Iowa now requires two separate public hearings on the annual budget. He said the county mailed a notice to taxpayers on March 20 showing hearing times and that the deadline to certify city budgets was moved to April 30 to allow the two hearings and required mailings, citing Code of Iowa section 384.16 as the statutory authority referenced in the discussion. Champ also explained the citys recent withdrawal from DART and said the proposed budget reallocates a portion of the former transit levy to a new city levy. Champ described the transit-levy capacity figure as "0.61669" and the new city levy as "12.10," and said the combined rate is $0.01669 lower than the prior year as a result of eliminating the transit levy; the transcript did not specify the units or tax-base basis used for those figures.
Pleasant Hill residents Sam Reed and Lindsay Maher asked clarifying questions about the proposed levies and the mailed notice. After no further comments from the council or public, Mayor Kurovski closed the public hearing at 5:38 p.m. The council did not take a vote on the levy at the special session; under the process described by staff a second public hearing and a formal resolution adopting the full budget must occur before the city may submit its final budget for certification.
Earlier in the meeting the council approved the meeting agenda on a 5-0 roll-call vote (moved by Councilmember Len Murray and seconded by Councilmember Alyson DeMoss) and later adjourned on a 5-0 roll-call vote (motion by DeMoss, seconded by Konnor Hodges). The transcript does not record additional debate or amendments to the levy at the March 24 special session. The council is expected to hold the second required hearing and consider a resolution adopting the full budget before the April 30 certification deadline.
