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Coon Rapids

$2,800 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($33.30 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,220 a yearof that goes to the city ($14.49 per $1,000)

$674,578property taxes the city levies, FY27

$4.2Mcity budget, FY27, without city-run utilities (not yet reported)²

Who runs it

The city council passes ordinances, adopts the budget and sets the city’s property tax.

Janelle Marie KrachtCoon Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Michael J. DeethCoon Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Michael SchwenkCoon Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Jeffrey AnthoferCoon Rapids Mayor · elected November 7, 2023
Jon K. EsdohrCoon Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Larry LenzCoon Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Jonathan CretsingerCoon Rapids Thomas Rest Haven Trustee · elected November 4, 2025

Officials are worked out from election results: every member whose four-year term is still running, plus appointments and titles Iowa Funnel has been told about. A resignation may not show yet.

Meetings and agendas

What the council is deciding: each agenda, the resolutions and ordinances on it, and a plain-language summary.

Iowa Funnel doesn’t read this city’s agendas yet. Every council and board posts its agenda at least 24 hours before it meets.

Property taxes

How the bill is collected · What each levy is for

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Coon Rapids

Homes and businesses in most of Coon Rapids pay a combined $30.63 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Carroll County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $14.49. Estimate your bill.

City of Coon Rapids$14.4947%
Coon Rapids-Bayard schools$10.8435%
Carroll County$3.9013%
Des Moines Area Community College$0.813%
Carroll County Assessor$0.431%
Carroll County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.16<1%

Rates over time

Per $1,000 of taxable value: the typical combined rate people in Coon Rapids pay, and the city government’s own piece of it.

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$30.66	$14.47
FY21	$31.10	$14.46
FY22	$31.16	$14.94
FY23	$31.15	$14.82
FY24	$31.74	$14.92
FY25	$31.72	$14.96
FY26	$31.35	$14.87
FY27	$30.63	$14.49

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$30.66	$14.47
FY21	$31.10	$14.46
FY22	$31.16	$14.94
FY23	$31.15	$14.82
FY24	$31.74	$14.92
FY25	$31.72	$14.96
FY26	$31.35	$14.87
FY27	$30.63	$14.49

Compared with places this size³

Coon Rapids’s city property tax rate of $14.49 per $1,000 is the 56th highest of 147 Iowa cities with 840–1,900 people. The middle of the group is $13.43.

See all 147

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Elkader	$27.11	1,192
2	Laurens	$24.16	1,253
3	Pocahontas	$20.79	1,848
4	Villisca	$19.74	1,106
5	Traer	$19.56	1,547
6	Corning	$19.36	1,509
7	Lake City	$19.32	1,656
8	Allison	$19.06	937
9	Corydon	$18.22	1,563
10	Dysart	$17.95	1,266
11	Greene	$17.91	971
12	Lansing	$17.67	959
13	Strawberry Point	$17.58	1,141
14	Rockwell	$17.54	1,044
15	Gowrie	$17.17	943
16	Colo	$17.14	856
17	Mapleton	$16.90	1,114
18	George	$16.89	1,106
19	Manson	$16.87	1,646
20	Fayette	$16.85	1,193
21	Eddyville	$16.82	965
22	Nashua	$16.81	1,515
23	Ackley	$16.63	1,538
24	Buffalo Center	$16.58	839
25	Roland	$16.51	1,376
26	Monona	$16.41	1,462
27	Aplington	$16.34	1,088
28	Durant	$16.24	1,798
29	Panora	$16.14	1,096
30	Mechanicsville	$16.12	974
31	Dike	$15.94	1,293
32	Armstrong	$15.87	847
33	Holstein	$15.81	1,475
34	State Center	$15.80	1,403
35	Pleasantville	$15.80	1,696
36	Earlham	$15.55	1,411
37	Shell Rock	$15.52	1,265
38	Brooklyn	$15.49	1,474
39	Newell	$15.49	850
40	Stuart	$15.48	1,887
41	Mount Ayr	$15.32	1,616
42	Neola	$15.30	917
43	Guttenberg	$15.19	1,804
44	Sidney	$15.19	1,048
45	Logan	$15.05	1,351
46	Griswold	$15.01	975
47	Readlyn	$14.99	857
48	Tripoli	$14.99	1,208
49	Woodbine	$14.80	1,707
50	Bedford	$14.66	1,474
51	Lenox	$14.65	1,355
52	Manning	$14.62	1,390
53	Van Meter	$14.60	1,840
54	Dunlap	$14.56	1,030
55	Maxwell	$14.50	862
56	Coon Rapids	$14.49	1,258
57	Nora Springs	$14.25	1,330
58	Kingsley	$14.25	1,394
59	Urbana	$14.20	1,635
60	Primghar	$14.18	893
61	Sheffield	$14.16	1,123
62	Hartley	$14.11	1,584
63	Woodward	$14.05	1,383
64	Guthrie Center	$14.04	1,579
65	Alton	$13.87	1,248
66	Montezuma	$13.79	1,421
67	Victor	$13.72	852
68	Gilbert	$13.71	1,397
69	Edgewood	$13.64	908
70	Donnellson	$13.63	859
71	Clarksville	$13.53	1,238
72	Avoca	$13.51	1,685
73	Janesville	$13.43	1,052
74	Glidden	$13.43	1,140
75	Calmar	$13.39	1,100
76	Baxter	$13.32	983
77	Manly	$13.29	1,233
78	Anita	$13.28	953
79	Conrad	$13.23	1,098
80	Springville	$13.22	1,161
81	Keota	$13.21	888
82	Shellsburg	$13.20	987
83	De Soto	$13.18	937
84	Treynor	$13.03	1,104
85	Odebolt	$13.00	967
86	Akron	$12.93	1,545
87	Leon	$12.93	1,779
88	Danville	$12.87	910
89	Underwood	$12.85	973
90	New Sharon	$12.80	1,249
91	Slater	$12.79	1,626
92	Malvern	$12.79	1,056
93	Buffalo	$12.68	1,163
94	Sanborn	$12.62	1,463
95	New London	$12.56	1,853
96	West Point	$12.39	903
97	Hinton	$12.38	959
98	Preston	$12.38	940
99	Remsen	$12.32	1,681
100	Reinbeck	$12.10	1,673
101	Winfield	$12.04	1,006
102	Elkhart	$12.00	1,079
103	Afton	$11.96	864
104	Tabor	$11.88	983
105	Wellman	$11.88	1,531
106	Aurelia	$11.84	970
107	Blue Grass	$11.79	1,707
108	Columbus Junction	$11.71	1,794
109	Palo	$11.49	1,554
110	Prairie City	$11.38	1,722
111	Marcus	$11.31	1,069
112	Dunkerton	$11.30	840
113	Mediapolis	$11.27	1,679
114	Melcher-Dallas	$11.21	1,193
115	University Heights	$11.12	1,188
116	Hamburg	$10.95	863
117	Clarence	$10.94	991
118	Farley	$10.91	1,723
119	Oakland	$10.85	1,519
120	Moville	$10.67	1,707
121	Cambridge	$10.53	844
122	Swisher	$10.39	909
123	Elk Run Heights	$10.33	1,061
124	Walcott	$10.29	1,556
125	Fredericksburg	$10.27	983
126	Lake Park	$10.25	1,155
127	Inwood	$10.22	962
128	Central City	$10.01	1,254
129	Newhall	$9.99	887
130	Long Grove	$9.59	849
131	Lake View	$9.39	1,120
132	Paullina	$9.21	979
133	Fairbank	$9.00	1,133
134	Walford	$8.72	1,357
135	Keosauqua	$8.58	944
136	Princeton	$8.24	917
137	Lone Tree	$8.13	1,341
138	Riverside	$8.02	1,063
139	Hills	$7.94	911
140	Larchwood	$7.52	954
141	North English	$7.49	1,030
142	Sloan	$7.49	1,078
143	Sully	$7.41	891
144	Fruitland	$7.21	928
145	Lawton	$7.10	949
146	Wayland	$7.07	935
147	Arnolds Park	$4.95	1,214

The $8.10 limit

Coon Rapids’s general levy is $7.89 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.21 below the limit.⁴ 545 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.13 · FY26 $8.13 · FY27 $7.89 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $6.60 more⁵

Total Employee Benefit Levies$3.92 · $179,245
Debt Service Levy$1.81 · $93,251
Liability, property & self insurance costs$0.87 · $39,832

Tax increment financing (TIF)

$5.7M of taxable value in Coon Rapids is in TIF districts’ increment (11% of the city’s taxable value), 2025 valuations, taxed in FY27.⁶ It budgeted $100,000 in TIF revenue for FY25.

$154,163

$148,435

What that value would raise at each government’s rate, FY27⁷

Taxes on TIF value go to the city’s TIF fund instead of the governments that levy them, including about $72,259 of the city’s own.

Coon Rapids-Bayard schools$49,024
Carroll County$19,062

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$74,285
FY17	$73,599
FY18	$61,689
FY19	$48,903
FY20	$154,163
FY21	$151,252
FY22	$118,127
FY23	$148,435

Show the numbers

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$74,285
FY17	$73,599
FY18	$61,689
FY19	$48,903
FY20	$154,163
FY21	$151,252
FY22	$118,127
FY23	$148,435

The city’s levies, FY27

What the city raises from each levy. The general levy is capped by state law; the others are set aside for one purpose.

Consolidate General Fund$360,76054%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$179,24527%
Debt Service Levy$93,25114%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$39,8326%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Coon Rapids’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending from all funds, including city-run utilities like water and sewer (“business type”), which some cities run and others don’t. Transfers between funds are left out. “Cities this size” is the average for the 146 Iowa cities closest in size (840–1,900 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (146)
Business Type / Enterprise	94¢	40¢
Public Safety	1¢	10¢
Public Works	1¢	13¢
Culture and Recreation	1¢	9¢
General Government	1¢	8¢
Everything else	1¢	9¢

Planned spending, FY27

All funds: property taxes, utility and other fees, state and federal money. “Business type” is city-run utilities and enterprises like water or sewer.

Capital Projects$2.5M59%
Public Works$434,55010%
Culture and Recreation$338,5158%
Public Safety$298,2037%
General Government$263,1336%
Debt Service$194,1005%
Community and Economic Development$171,6784%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($30.1M in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$531,023	$407,266
Public Safety	$449,406	$263,991
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$236,165	$224,877
Debt Service	$160,235	$159,735
Culture and Recreation	$288,200	$282,365
Community and Economic Development	$188,371	$285,468
Capital Projects	$914,367	$762,470
Business Type / Enterprise	$17.7M	$9.9M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁸

$21.9M

Debt, reserves and audits

How local debt works · What an audit tells you

What Coon Rapids owes

$2.6M at June 30, 2026: $1,992 per resident. 387th most per resident of 939 Iowa places of its kind (the list).⁹

$3.7M

$2.6M

June 30	Owed	Per resident
2026	$2.6M	$1,992
2025	$3.1M	$2,358
2024	$3.4M	$2,622
2023	$3.7M	$2,869
2022	$2.9M	$2,221
2021	$2.6M	$1,976
2020	$2.8M	$2,131
2019	$3.0M	$2,342
2018	$3.3M	$2,550
2017	$3.6M	$2,735
2016	$1.3M	$981
2015	$1.4M	$1,073
2014	$2.5M	$1,885
2013	$1.5M	$1,174
2012	$1.6M	$1,256
2011	$1.9M	$1,430
2010	$2.1M	$1,603

Show the numbers

June 30	Owed	Per resident
2026	$2.6M	$1,992
2025	$3.1M	$2,358
2024	$3.4M	$2,622
2023	$3.7M	$2,869
2022	$2.9M	$2,221
2021	$2.6M	$1,976
2020	$2.8M	$2,131
2019	$3.0M	$2,342
2018	$3.3M	$2,550
2017	$3.6M	$2,735
2016	$1.3M	$981
2015	$1.4M	$1,073
2014	$2.5M	$1,885
2013	$1.5M	$1,174
2012	$1.6M	$1,256
2011	$1.9M	$1,430
2010	$2.1M	$1,603

Up 24% since 2010.

The 5% limit¹⁰

General obligation debt is $90,000, 2% of the limit of about $4.3M (5% of $85.3M, the full value of its taxable property in 2024).

2 obligations at June 30, 2026

Kind	For	Paid off by	Owed
Revenue Bonds	Improvements and extensions of Municipal Electric, and fiber to the home project and 2022-2023 Wastewater infrastructure improvement projects	2032	$2.5M
General Obligation	Fire/Ambulance Station	2027	$90,000

General obligation bonds are repaid from property taxes; revenue bonds and loans from the fees or revenue they’re tied to. On the Treasurer’s site

Money in reserve

The state’s budget files don’t include cities’ fund balances¹¹. Coon Rapids’s latest audit has them: Annual Examination, period ending Monday, June 30, 2025 (PDF).

Audits¹²

The latest: Annual Examination for the period ending Monday, June 30, 2025 (PDF), released Friday, December 12, 2025, by a CPA firm.

13 earlier reports for Coon Rapids

Annual Examination, period ending Sunday, June 30, 2024Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Financial Statement, period ending Friday, June 30, 2023Thursday, February 1, 2024
Annual Examination, period ending Thursday, June 30, 2022Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Annual Examination, period ending Wednesday, June 30, 2021Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Annual Examination, period ending Tuesday, June 30, 2020Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Annual Examination, period ending Sunday, June 30, 2019Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Annual Examination, period ending Saturday, June 30, 2018Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Annual Examination, period ending Friday, June 30, 2017Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Annual Examination, period ending Thursday, June 30, 2016Thursday, February 9, 2017
Annual Examination, period ending Tuesday, June 30, 2015Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Annual Examination, period ending Monday, June 30, 2014Friday, February 27, 2015
Annual Examination, period ending Sunday, June 30, 2013Monday, December 30, 2013
Financial Statement, period ending Thursday, June 30, 2011Friday, March 30, 2012

State money

What the State of Iowa pays the city each year, and whether it has kept up with prices. Does state money keep pace? ¹³

What the state pays the city every year

Road Use Tax for streets, the commercial and industrial tax “backfill”, and ambulance reimbursement, paid every year by formula: $184,625 in FY25, up 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 13% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$179,828	$178,895	$183,628	$184,625

Grants and project money

State grants and money for specific projects (roads, development, natural resources) vary with what the city applies for and wins, so they aren’t counted as the state’s regular support.

$300,486

$297,841

State grants$144,15748%
LOCAL GRANTS$96,77832%
Iowa Department of Natural Resources$56,90619%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$13,075
FY20	$167,543
FY21	$73,178
FY22	$300,486
FY23	$14,736
FY24	$112,196
FY25	$297,841

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$13,075
FY20	$167,543
FY21	$73,178
FY22	$300,486
FY23	$14,736
FY24	$112,196
FY25	$297,841

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−13%$168,587 → $184,625, up 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 13% less

Collected by the state for the city

The local option sales tax is a city tax voters approved; the state collects it with the state sales tax and sends it back. It isn’t state aid. It’s up 32% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 5% more.

$281,687

$279,323

Federal grants, for comparison: $283,795 in FY25.

Business awards

Every award statewide

Elections

Running for mayor and city council

Filing opens Monday, August 23, 2027: in 284 days.

For the Tuesday, November 2, 2027 election, candidates file Monday, August 23, 2027 to Thursday, September 16, 2027 with the county auditor (or the city clerk, if the auditor names the clerk to take them)¹⁴.

In a city that can hold a primary, filing runs Monday, August 9, 2027 to Thursday, August 26, 2027.

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Coon Rapids City Council At-Large

3 seats: the top 3 win.

Janelle Marie Kracht Winner14534.8%
Michael Schwenk Winner13732.9%
Michael J. Deeth Winner13532.4%

Coon Rapids Thomas Rest Haven Trustee

Jonathan Cretsinger Unopposed146100.0%

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Coon Rapids; official results are on each county auditor’s site.

Who has filed for Tuesday, November 2, 2027

Filing hasn’t opened. These seats are expected on the ballot.

Coon Rapids City Council At-Large (2 seats)
Now held by Larry Lenz, Jon K. Esdohr
Coon Rapids Mayor
Now held by Jeffrey Anthofer
Coon Rapids Thomas Rest Haven Trustee
Now held by Jill Hart

Candidates as county auditors and civicAPI list them; a filing can take a few days to appear here¹⁵.

Past ballot measures

None found since 2022.

When a measure can be on the ballot

Tuesday, March 2, 2027 · no bond or debt questions
Tuesday, September 14, 2027 · no bond or debt questions
Tuesday, November 2, 2027 · any question, including bonds
Tuesday, March 7, 2028 · no bond or debt questions

Bonds and other borrowing can only go on the November ballot¹⁶.

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress¹⁷

Jason Schultz (Sen. 6)Craig Steven Williams (Rep. 11)

U.S. House:District 4

Carroll County Coon Rapids-Bayard schools

Notes

For a $200,000 home with the homestead credit, at the combined rate in most of the city. Some parts of the city pay a different rate (special districts, tax increment financing districts). ↩
Cities adopt their budgets each spring for the year starting July 1. ↩
FY27 rates from the Department of Management. A higher rate isn’t always a bigger bill: it depends on how much property there is to tax. Sizes: Census Bureau 2024 estimates. ↩
Iowa Code section 384.1, as changed by House File 718 (2023). Until FY25 a city’s regular general levy was capped at $8.10 by itself, and a city at the cap could add an emergency levy of up to $0.27. From FY25 the general levy and several smaller levies were combined into one “consolidated” general levy with an $8.10 limit; a city whose combined rate was above $8.10 lowers it in steps, in years its taxable value grows by more than the law allows, until it reaches $8.10. So years before FY25 aren’t directly comparable with later ones. ↩
Levies outside the limit are each set aside for one purpose and have their own rules: debt service pays back bonds voters or the council approved, employee benefits cover pensions and insurance, and some (transit, an airport, insurance costs) have their own caps in state law. ↩
Tax increment financing: when a city sets up a TIF district, the taxable value there is frozen at a “base”. Taxes on the base go to every government as usual; taxes on the growth in value since (the “increment”) go to the city’s TIF fund to pay for the project, such as roads, utilities or a developer rebate, until the district ends. From the state’s valuation file (Iowa Data Hub), valuation year 2025. ↩
This multiplies the taxable value in the city’s TIF districts by each government’s rate on TIF value. It is not the money each government lost: without TIF, the same taxes would be spread over a bigger base, so rates would be lower for everyone; the state’s school aid formula makes up much of a school district’s share; and some of the value might not have been built without TIF. Each government still gets its debt service levy on TIF value, and a school district its physical plant and equipment and instructional support levies; those aren’t counted here. Community colleges, assessors and other smaller levies are left out. ↩
The state’s FY24 spending file repeats the year before for nearly every Iowa city, so that year isn’t shown. ↩
From the reports each government files with the Treasurer of State’s debt reporting site. “Per resident” divides by the population the site lists, the same figure for every year, so the trend shows the debt itself changing. ↩
Article XI, section 3 of the Iowa Constitution limits a county, city or school district’s debt to 5% of the value of the taxable property in it. Iowa applies the limit to the full (100%) value, before the rollback, and it covers general obligation debt, backed by property taxes; revenue bonds repaid only from fees, like water bills, don’t count. Iowa Funnel compares general obligation debt with 5% of the value two years earlier, as the last tax lists before the year; a government’s own bond documents state its exact figure. ↩
The Department of Management’s city budget and annual report files on the Iowa Data Hub give revenue and spending by city, but no beginning or ending fund balances. A city’s audit or annual financial report has them, in its statement of net position and its fund balance schedules. ↩
From the Auditor of State’s list of audit reports. Every Iowa city, county and school district is audited or examined: larger ones each year by a CPA firm or the Auditor of State, small cities every few years. Findings are problems the auditors report, from weak controls over cash to breaking a law. ↩
From the city’s annual financial reports to the state (Iowa Data Hub, city actual revenues). “Today’s dollars” adjusts each year by the consumer price index for the Midwest, so a flat line in today’s dollars means the money buys the same as before. ↩
Iowa Code §376.4(1)(a): nomination papers are filed 71 to 47 days before the election, by 5:00 p.m. on the last day. Cities that may hold a primary election file earlier: 85 to 68 days before. ↩
Expected seats come from when each seat was last elected and its term. Filed candidates come from civicAPI and, in Black Hawk, Johnson and Scott counties, the auditor’s published candidate list, read weekly while filing is open. Check with the county auditor or city clerk before relying on it. Only names are shown. ↩
Iowa Code §39.2(4) (2026), paragraph d: “For any political subdivision of this state, if the special election is in whole or in part for the question of issuing bonds or other indebtedness, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.” This applies to bond elections on or after July 1, 2023. Subsection 2 adds that “a special election for a city, school district, or merged area shall not be scheduled to coincide with the general election.” A few kinds of elections follow their own rules (“unless otherwise provided by law”). ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Coon Rapids; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Coon Rapids works within. ↩

Sources: City budgets and levies from the Department of Management; tax rates from the Iowa Data Hub; state payments from the Department of Revenue; prices from the consumer price index; legislative districts from Census Bureau maps.

Coon Rapids

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Coon Rapids

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $6.60 more5

Tax increment financing (TIF)

What that value would raise at each government’s rate, FY277

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Coon Rapids’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending, FY27

What it spent each year

Debt, reserves and audits

What Coon Rapids owes

The 5% limit10

Money in reserve

Audits12

State money

What the state pays the city every year

Grants and project money

Has it kept up with prices?

Collected by the state for the city

Business awards

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

Who has filed for Tuesday, November 2, 2027

Past ballot measures

When a measure can be on the ballot

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress17

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $6.60 more⁵

What that value would raise at each government’s rate, FY27⁷

The 5% limit¹⁰

Audits¹²

At the Statehouse and in Congress¹⁷