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Belle Plaine board approves slight decrease in 2024 (payable 2025) property tax levy
Summary
After a Truth In Taxation presentation, the Belle Plaine school board approved a 2024 (payable 2025) levy totaling $5,355,219.26, recorded as a 1.8% decrease from the prior year; the motion passed unanimously.
The Belle Plaine Public School District board approved its 2024 (payable 2025) tax levy at its Dec. 16, 2024 regular meeting after a Truth In Taxation presentation to the board.
Board materials presented during the Truth In Taxation hearing showed the district’s total levy as $5,355,219.36, a 1.80% decrease (–$98,430.96) from the 2023–24 levy. The motion recorded and passed in the minutes states: "Approve the 2024 Payable 2025 levy of $5,355,219.26." The motion to adopt the levy was made by Tonya Smith and seconded by Karl Keup and passed unanimously (Kahle, Keup, Lenz, Morrison, O'Brien, Smith: Yea).
The levy vote followed the board’s finance presentation and came with supporting budget documents attached to the agenda. The board did not record any opposing votes or amendments to the levy at the meeting. Administrators told the board the decrease reflects the district’s levy calculation and the items shown in the TNT materials.
The board also scheduled its next organizational meeting for Jan. 6 (listed in the agenda) and adjourned at 6:46 p.m.
Why it matters: the levy sets the district’s local tax request that, combined with state aid and other resources, funds schools’ operations and capital planning for the coming year.
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