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Strawberry Point

$3,140 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($37.33 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,480 a yearof that goes to the city ($17.58 per $1,000)

$729,906property taxes the city levies, FY27

$1.9Mcity 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.

Douglas SchmidtStrawberry Point City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Hannah EvansStrawberry Point Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Roger ReedStrawberry Point City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Charles E. RodasStrawberry Point City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Megan HanselStrawberry Point City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Sara GilsonStrawberry Point City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Sue MeyerStrawberry Point Treasurer At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Sue MeyerStrawberry Point Treasurer · elected November 7, 2023

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 Strawberry Point

Homes and businesses in most of Strawberry Point pay a combined $37.33 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Clayton County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $17.58. Estimate your bill.

City of Strawberry Point$17.5847%
Starmont schools$10.7929%
Clayton County$6.8918%
Northeast Iowa Community College$1.043%
Cass-Strawberry Point Cemetery$0.441%
Clayton County Assessor$0.36<1%
Clayton County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.23<1%

Rates over time

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

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$35.41	$14.90
FY21	$34.33	$15.08
FY22	$34.23	$15.08
FY23	$34.03	$15.08
FY24	$36.26	$16.67
FY25	$35.98	$17.33
FY26	$37.52	$17.86
FY27	$37.33	$17.58

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$35.41	$14.90
FY21	$34.33	$15.08
FY22	$34.23	$15.08
FY23	$34.03	$15.08
FY24	$36.26	$16.67
FY25	$35.98	$17.33
FY26	$37.52	$17.86
FY27	$37.33	$17.58

Compared with places this size³

Strawberry Point’s city property tax rate of $17.58 per $1,000 is the 14th highest of 157 Iowa cities with 760–1,700 people. The middle of the group is $13.32.

See all 157

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Elkader	$27.11	1,192
2	Exira	$24.81	766
3	Laurens	$24.16	1,253
4	Dayton	$22.51	766
5	Villisca	$19.74	1,106
6	Traer	$19.56	1,547
7	Corning	$19.36	1,509
8	Lake City	$19.32	1,656
9	Allison	$19.06	937
10	Corydon	$18.22	1,563
11	Dysart	$17.95	1,266
12	Greene	$17.91	971
13	Lansing	$17.67	959
14	Strawberry Point	$17.58	1,141
15	Rockwell	$17.54	1,044
16	Gowrie	$17.17	943
17	Colo	$17.14	856
18	Mapleton	$16.90	1,114
19	George	$16.89	1,106
20	Manson	$16.87	1,646
21	Fayette	$16.85	1,193
22	Adair	$16.84	792
23	Eddyville	$16.82	965
24	Nashua	$16.81	1,515
25	Ackley	$16.63	1,538
26	Buffalo Center	$16.58	839
27	Roland	$16.51	1,376
28	Eldon	$16.42	788
29	Monona	$16.41	1,462
30	Aplington	$16.34	1,088
31	Panora	$16.14	1,096
32	Mechanicsville	$16.12	974
33	Dike	$15.94	1,293
34	Armstrong	$15.87	847
35	Holstein	$15.81	1,475
36	State Center	$15.80	1,403
37	Pleasantville	$15.80	1,696
38	Earlham	$15.55	1,411
39	Shell Rock	$15.52	1,265
40	Brooklyn	$15.49	1,474
41	Newell	$15.49	850
42	Mount Ayr	$15.32	1,616
43	Riceville	$15.31	807
44	Neola	$15.30	917
45	Sidney	$15.19	1,048
46	Gilbertville	$15.15	792
47	Logan	$15.05	1,351
48	Griswold	$15.01	975
49	Readlyn	$14.99	857
50	Tripoli	$14.99	1,208
51	Woodbine	$14.80	1,707
52	Bedford	$14.66	1,474
53	Lenox	$14.65	1,355
54	Manning	$14.62	1,390
55	Dunlap	$14.56	1,030
56	Maxwell	$14.50	862
57	Coon Rapids	$14.49	1,258
58	Nora Springs	$14.25	1,330
59	Kingsley	$14.25	1,394
60	Urbana	$14.20	1,635
61	Primghar	$14.18	893
62	Sheffield	$14.16	1,123
63	Hartley	$14.11	1,584
64	Woodward	$14.05	1,383
65	Guthrie Center	$14.04	1,579
66	Ossian	$13.88	777
67	Alton	$13.87	1,248
68	Montezuma	$13.79	1,421
69	Victor	$13.72	852
70	Gilbert	$13.71	1,397
71	Edgewood	$13.64	908
72	Donnellson	$13.63	859
73	Gladbrook	$13.58	775
74	Clarksville	$13.53	1,238
75	Avoca	$13.51	1,685
76	Janesville	$13.43	1,052
77	Glidden	$13.43	1,140
78	Calmar	$13.39	1,100
79	Baxter	$13.32	983
80	Manly	$13.29	1,233
81	Anita	$13.28	953
82	Van Horne	$13.27	768
83	Conrad	$13.23	1,098
84	Springville	$13.22	1,161
85	Keota	$13.21	888
86	Shellsburg	$13.20	987
87	De Soto	$13.18	937
88	Treynor	$13.03	1,104
89	Odebolt	$13.00	967
90	Akron	$12.93	1,545
91	Danville	$12.87	910
92	Underwood	$12.85	973
93	New Sharon	$12.80	1,249
94	Slater	$12.79	1,626
95	Malvern	$12.79	1,056
96	Buffalo	$12.68	1,163
97	Sanborn	$12.62	1,463
98	West Point	$12.39	903
99	Hinton	$12.38	959
100	Preston	$12.38	940
101	Remsen	$12.32	1,681
102	Hubbard	$12.30	837
103	Carson	$12.22	772
104	Wheatland	$12.18	765
105	Reinbeck	$12.10	1,673
106	Winfield	$12.04	1,006
107	Elkhart	$12.00	1,079
108	Afton	$11.96	864
109	Lowden	$11.93	767
110	Tabor	$11.88	983
111	Wellman	$11.88	1,531
112	Aurelia	$11.84	970
113	Blue Grass	$11.79	1,707
114	Palo	$11.49	1,554
115	West Bend	$11.42	770
116	Dakota City	$11.39	764
117	Marcus	$11.31	1,069
118	Dunkerton	$11.30	840
119	Mediapolis	$11.27	1,679
120	Melcher-Dallas	$11.21	1,193
121	University Heights	$11.12	1,188
122	Hamburg	$10.95	863
123	Clarence	$10.94	991
124	Oakland	$10.85	1,519
125	Moville	$10.67	1,707
126	Cambridge	$10.53	844
127	Swisher	$10.39	909
128	Schleswig	$10.39	820
129	Melbourne	$10.38	771
130	Elk Run Heights	$10.33	1,061
131	Walcott	$10.29	1,556
132	Fredericksburg	$10.27	983
133	Lake Park	$10.25	1,155
134	Inwood	$10.22	962
135	Milo	$10.20	762
136	Central City	$10.01	1,254
137	Newhall	$9.99	887
138	Graettinger	$9.81	810
139	Long Grove	$9.59	849
140	Lake View	$9.39	1,120
141	Paullina	$9.21	979
142	Fairbank	$9.00	1,133
143	Winthrop	$8.94	814
144	Walford	$8.72	1,357
145	Keosauqua	$8.58	944
146	Princeton	$8.24	917
147	Lone Tree	$8.13	1,341
148	Riverside	$8.02	1,063
149	Hills	$7.94	911
150	Larchwood	$7.52	954
151	North English	$7.49	1,030
152	Sloan	$7.49	1,078
153	Sully	$7.41	891
154	Fruitland	$7.21	928
155	Lawton	$7.10	949
156	Wayland	$7.07	935
157	Arnolds Park	$4.95	1,214

The $8.10 limit

Strawberry Point’s general levy is $8.26 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.16 above the limit; it has to come down in steps.⁴ 126 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.51 · FY26 $8.51 · FY27 $8.26 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $9.32 more⁵

Liability, property & self insurance costs$4.58 · $189,394
Total Employee Benefit Levies$2.68 · $110,646
Debt Service Levy$2.01 · $83,197
Support of a Local Emerg. Mgmt. Comm.$0.05 · $1,994

Tax increment financing (TIF)

Strawberry Point’s TIF revenue, from its reports to the state.

$34,583

$34,225

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$26,235
FY17	$27,244
FY18	$26,442
FY19	$33,870
FY20	$34,583
FY21	$34,225

Show the numbers

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$26,235
FY17	$27,244
FY18	$26,442
FY19	$33,870
FY20	$34,583
FY21	$34,225

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$341,30647%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$189,39426%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$110,64615%
Debt Service Levy$83,19711%
Support of a Local Emerg. Mgmt. Comm.$1,9940%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Strawberry Point’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 156 Iowa cities closest in size (760–1,700 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (156)
Business Type / Enterprise	48¢	41¢
Culture and Recreation	16¢	9¢
Public Safety	16¢	10¢
Public Works	10¢	14¢
General Government	7¢	8¢
Everything else	3¢	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.

Public Safety$649,70035%
Culture and Recreation$581,79031%
Public Works$319,40517%
General Government$160,0009%
Debt Service$129,4667%
Community and Economic Development$10,3001%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($2.0M in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$220,945	$237,651
Public Safety	$465,980	$470,280
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$181,060	$121,362
Debt Service	$206,728	$200,092
Culture and Recreation	$315,445	$273,078
Community and Economic Development	$7,600	$5,396
Capital Projects	$91,000	$683,651
Business Type / Enterprise	$1.6M	$1.4M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$4.0M

$3.0M

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? ⁷

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: $164,753 in FY25, down 2% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 22% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$162,752	$158,941	$163,147	$164,032
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	–	–	–	$721

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.

$18,530

$14,210

State grants$14,210100%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$2,718
FY20	$2,066
FY21	$3,247
FY22	$2,791
FY23	$7,103
FY24	$18,530
FY25	$14,210

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$2,718
FY20	$2,066
FY21	$3,247
FY22	$2,791
FY23	$7,103
FY24	$18,530
FY25	$14,210

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−21%$165,229 → $164,032, down 1% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 21% less
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)−79%$2,783 → $721, down 74% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 79% 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 20% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 4% less.

$173,792

$164,712

Federal grants, for comparison: $411,332 in FY23.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 3

Strawberry Point City Council At-Large

2 seats: the top 2 win.

Roger Reed Winner25742.1%
Douglas Schmidt Winner19231.5%
Larry Minard 7412.1%
Dan Pfeiler 6110.0%
Deborah Yokiel 264.3%

Strawberry Point Mayor

Hannah Evans Unopposed209100.0%

Strawberry Point Treasurer At-Large

Sue Meyer Unopposed8100.0%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸

Mike Klimesh (Sen. 32)Jason Gearhart (Rep. 64)

U.S. House:District 2

Clayton County Starmont 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. ↩
The state’s FY24 spending file repeats the year before for nearly every Iowa city, so that year isn’t shown. ↩
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. ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Strawberry Point; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Strawberry Point 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.

Strawberry Point

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Strawberry Point

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $9.32 more5

Tax increment financing (TIF)

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Strawberry Point’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending, FY27

What it spent each year

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

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress8

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $9.32 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸