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Masonville

$2,810 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($33.31 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$930 a yearof that goes to the city ($11.00 per $1,000)

$50,805property taxes the city levies, FY27

$84,271city 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.

Bill AldenMasonville Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Cristen GallupMasonville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Gerald AldenMasonville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Nellie MartingMasonville City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Jerry AldenMasonville City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Nellie A. MartingMasonville City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Summer PenneyMasonville City Council At-Large · 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 Masonville

Homes and businesses in most of Masonville pay a combined $33.31 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Delaware County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $11.00. Estimate your bill.

West Delaware County schools$12.9539%
City of Masonville$11.0033%
Delaware County$5.7917%
Delaware County Hospital$1.835%
Northeast Iowa Community College$1.043%
Delaware County Assessor$0.532%
Delaware County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.18<1%

Rates over time

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

CombinedCity’s own

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$31.88	$11.08
FY21	$31.73	$11.04
FY22	$32.59	$11.20
FY23	$32.76	$11.32
FY24	$33.48	$11.62
FY25	$34.66	$11.73
FY26	$34.87	$11.95
FY27	$33.31	$11.00

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$31.88	$11.08
FY21	$31.73	$11.04
FY22	$32.59	$11.20
FY23	$32.76	$11.32
FY24	$33.48	$11.62
FY25	$34.66	$11.73
FY26	$34.87	$11.95
FY27	$33.31	$11.00

Compared with places this size³

Masonville’s city property tax rate of $11.00 per $1,000 is the 50th highest of 131 Iowa cities with 70–150 people. The middle of the group is $9.49.

See all 131

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Castana	$34.13	103
2	Brayton	$25.07	138
3	Hansell	$23.66	85
4	Harris	$23.13	145
5	Whitten	$22.65	98
6	Stanley	$20.69	86
7	Rowan	$19.53	118
8	Chester	$19.30	134
9	Bouton	$19.25	125
10	Ricketts	$19.22	105
11	Varina	$19.09	69
12	Sharpsburg	$18.93	69
13	Grant	$18.71	82
14	Swaledale	$18.62	136
15	Derby	$18.13	89
16	Bristow	$17.39	139
17	Woolstock	$17.26	141
18	Monmouth	$16.41	129
19	Blockton	$16.37	123
20	Geneva	$16.25	137
21	Waterville	$16.25	112
22	Popejoy	$15.80	76
23	Woodburn	$15.59	133
24	Goodell	$15.16	139
25	Marne	$15.03	109
26	Baldwin	$14.91	99
27	Palmer	$13.89	137
28	Ayrshire	$13.55	128
29	Searsboro	$13.55	129
30	Ferguson	$13.53	98
31	Lanesboro	$13.53	112
32	Calumet	$13.16	144
33	Delaware	$12.86	139
34	Clemons	$12.69	135
35	Cylinder	$12.52	84
36	Millersburg	$12.40	135
37	Bridgewater	$12.29	145
38	Arion	$12.14	99
39	Webb	$12.10	139
40	Lone Rock	$11.92	143
41	East Peru	$11.89	119
42	Henderson	$11.85	140
43	Morley	$11.74	94
44	Ledyard	$11.74	118
45	Toronto	$11.68	101
46	Matlock	$11.44	74
47	Melrose	$11.27	110
48	Nodaway	$11.20	74
49	Promise City	$11.13	91
50	Masonville	$11.00	98
51	Somers	$10.99	121
52	Havelock	$10.95	127
53	Numa	$10.80	69
54	Pacific Junction	$10.56	99
55	Oto	$10.45	71
56	Bradgate	$10.37	76
57	North Washington	$10.23	107
58	Dawson	$10.19	110
59	Hartwick	$9.90	91
60	Clare	$9.81	133
61	Tingley	$9.81	146
62	Rutland	$9.65	116
63	Rock Falls	$9.61	143
64	Superior	$9.58	127
65	Webster	$9.55	94
66	Martinsburg	$9.49	109
67	Larrabee	$9.41	116
68	Hamilton	$9.35	125
69	Wiota	$9.32	91
70	Floris	$9.29	119
71	Mitchell	$9.22	118
72	Westphalia	$9.18	133
73	Welton	$8.86	124
74	Archer	$8.84	116
75	Luther	$8.83	147
76	Fraser	$8.81	107
77	Macksburg	$8.81	103
78	Andover	$8.28	106
79	Unionville	$8.10	74
80	Rome	$8.10	112
81	Carpenter	$8.10	92
82	Turin	$8.10	69
83	Struble	$8.10	72
84	Westfield	$8.10	121
85	Shannon City	$8.10	73
86	Chillicothe	$8.10	79
87	Clio	$8.10	67
88	Scarville	$8.10	75
89	Vincent	$8.09	125
90	Buckeye	$7.94	82
91	Morrison	$7.86	101
92	Oyens	$7.86	88
93	Dickens	$7.86	146
94	Castalia	$7.86	141
95	Ralston	$7.86	76
96	Chatsworth	$7.86	72
97	West Chester	$7.82	147
98	Cromwell	$7.81	104
99	Mcclelland	$7.79	147
100	Arispe	$7.71	95
101	Luzerne	$7.69	111
102	Westwood	$7.67	96
103	Kinross	$7.57	80
104	Bernard	$7.56	117
105	Braddyville	$7.49	142
106	Garber	$7.35	76
107	Franklin	$7.31	133
108	Spring Hill	$7.26	68
109	Greenville	$7.24	69
110	Spragueville	$7.20	92
111	Weldon	$7.18	134
112	Craig	$7.01	78
113	Brunsville	$6.95	128
114	Zwingle	$6.93	86
115	Pleasant Plain	$6.79	83
116	Houghton	$6.73	129
117	Williamson	$6.72	126
118	Willey	$6.69	72
119	Lincoln	$6.32	119
120	Tennant	$6.29	83
121	Ackworth	$5.90	117
122	Springbrook	$5.79	145
123	Harper	$5.29	117
124	Panorama Park	$4.62	142
125	Keomah Village	$3.15	107
126	Mcintire	$2.78	115
127	Graf	$2.56	76
128	Centralia	$2.41	117
129	New Liberty	$2.27	141
130	North Buena Vista	$1.78	107
131	Balltown	$0.12	78

The $8.10 limit

Masonville’s general levy is $7.86 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.24 below the limit.⁴ 623 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.10 · FY26 $8.10 · FY27 $7.86 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $3.14 more⁵

Liability, property & self insurance costs$2.36 · $10,849
Total Employee Benefit Levies$0.77 · $3,551

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$36,10671%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$10,84921%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$3,5517%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Masonville’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 132 Iowa cities closest in size (70–150 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (132)
General Government	39¢	27¢
Public Safety	26¢	9¢
Business Type / Enterprise	21¢	20¢
Public Works	11¢	30¢
Culture and Recreation	3¢	7¢

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.

General Government$37,22344%
Public Safety$25,57530%
Public Works$10,20012%
Debt Service$8,82710%
Culture and Recreation$2,4463%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($20,330 in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$20,200	$11,946
Public Safety	$31,165	$29,752
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$31,000	$36,876
Debt Service	$8,827	$0
Culture and Recreation	$3,500	$7,573
Community and Economic Development	$0	$2,430
Capital Projects	$0	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$0	$48,249

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$256,127

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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: $13,754 in FY25, down 6% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 25% less. Grants are below.

In today's dollarsActual dollars

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$12,837	$12,236	$12,567	$12,904
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	–	$595	–	$850

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−30%$14,642 → $12,904, down 12% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 30% 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 39% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 11% more.

$21,041

$15,631

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25

Federal grants, for comparison: $7,484 in FY24.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Masonville City Council At-Large

3 seats: the top 3 win.

Cristen Gallup Winner1638.1%
Gerald Alden Winner1535.7%
Nellie Marting Winner1126.2%

Masonville Mayor

Bill Alden Unopposed16100.0%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸

Dan Zumbach (Sen. 34)Craig P. Johnson (Rep. 67)

U.S. House:District 2

Delaware County West Delaware County 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 Masonville; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Masonville 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.