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Dunlap

Harrison County · How cities work

$3,020 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($35.81 per $1,000 of taxable value)1
$1,230 a yearof that goes to the city ($14.56 per $1,000)
$767,738property taxes the city levies, FY27
$969,750city 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.

  • Benjamin SchauerDunlap City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
  • Michael GuniaDunlap City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
  • Ryan MurphyDunlap City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
  • Jason KnickmanDunlap Mayor · elected November 7, 2023
  • Michael J. BonsallDunlap City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
  • Steven WingroveDunlap 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 Dunlap

Homes and businesses in most of Dunlap pay a combined $35.81 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Harrison County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $14.56. Estimate your bill.

Rates over time

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

YearCombinedCity’s own
FY20$37.82$17.44
FY21$36.70$16.20
FY22$36.97$15.94
FY23$34.91$14.20
FY24$36.13$14.85
FY25$37.34$16.04
FY26$37.97$16.30
FY27$35.81$14.56
Show the numbers
YearCombinedCity’s own
FY20$37.82$17.44
FY21$36.70$16.20
FY22$36.97$15.94
FY23$34.91$14.20
FY24$36.13$14.85
FY25$37.34$16.04
FY26$37.97$16.30
FY27$35.81$14.56

Compared with places this size3

Dunlap’s city property tax rate of $14.56 per $1,000 is the 55th highest of 174 Iowa cities with 690–1,500 people. The middle of the group is $13.21.

Elkader: $27.11Exira: $24.81Laurens: $24.16Dayton: $22.51Correctionville: $19.84Villisca: $19.74Corning: $19.36Allison: $19.06Dysart: $17.95Greene: $17.91Alden: $17.90Lansing: $17.67Strawberry Point: $17.58Rockwell: $17.54Walnut: $17.46Gowrie: $17.17Colo: $17.14Mapleton: $16.90George: $16.89Fayette: $16.85Adair: $16.84Eddyville: $16.82Nashua: $16.81Oxford: $16.70Ackley: $16.63Buffalo Center: $16.58Roland: $16.51Eldon: $16.42Monona: $16.41Aplington: $16.34Panora: $16.14Mechanicsville: $16.12Dike: $15.94Armstrong: $15.87Ruthven: $15.84Holstein: $15.81State Center: $15.80Earlham: $15.55Shell Rock: $15.52Brooklyn: $15.49Newell: $15.49Riceville: $15.31Neola: $15.30Sidney: $15.19Gilbertville: $15.15Logan: $15.05Stratford: $15.03Griswold: $15.01Readlyn: $14.99Tripoli: $14.99Essex: $14.76Bedford: $14.66Lenox: $14.65Manning: $14.62Garnavillo: $14.52Maxwell: $14.50Coon Rapids: $14.49Nora Springs: $14.25Kingsley: $14.25Mcgregor: $14.20Primghar: $14.18Sheffield: $14.16Woodward: $14.05Ossian: $13.88Alton: $13.87Montezuma: $13.79Redfield: $13.73Victor: $13.72Gilbert: $13.71Edgewood: $13.64Sioux Rapids: $13.63Donnellson: $13.63Gladbrook: $13.58Clarksville: $13.53Rockford: $13.52Janesville: $13.43Glidden: $13.43Calmar: $13.39Boyden: $13.39Baxter: $13.32Manly: $13.29Anita: $13.28Van Horne: $13.27Conrad: $13.23Springville: $13.22Keota: $13.21Shellsburg: $13.20De Soto: $13.18Treynor: $13.03Odebolt: $13.00Coggon: $12.99Akron: $12.93Earlville: $12.90Danville: $12.87Underwood: $12.85New Sharon: $12.80Malvern: $12.79Montrose: $12.78Wellsburg: $12.68Buffalo: $12.68Sanborn: $12.62Hospers: $12.58Hazleton: $12.48West Point: $12.39Hinton: $12.38Preston: $12.38Hubbard: $12.30Hedrick: $12.22Carson: $12.22Wheatland: $12.18Schaller: $12.14Winfield: $12.04Elkhart: $12.00Afton: $11.96Lowden: $11.93Tabor: $11.88Wellman: $11.88Aurelia: $11.84Merrill: $11.64Morning Sun: $11.50Wall Lake: $11.43West Bend: $11.42Dakota City: $11.39Marcus: $11.31Dunkerton: $11.30Whiting: $11.21Melcher-Dallas: $11.21Shelby: $11.17University Heights: $11.12Blairstown: $11.04Manilla: $11.01Hamburg: $10.95Clarence: $10.94Oakland: $10.85Cambridge: $10.53Swisher: $10.39Schleswig: $10.39Melbourne: $10.38Elk Run Heights: $10.33Fredericksburg: $10.27Lake Park: $10.25Ventura: $10.22Inwood: $10.22Milo: $10.20Hartford: $10.16Central City: $10.01Newhall: $9.99Graettinger: $9.81Long Grove: $9.59Lake View: $9.39Paullina: $9.21Fairbank: $9.00Winthrop: $8.94Walford: $8.72Keosauqua: $8.58Grand Junction: $8.57Princeton: $8.24Lone Tree: $8.13Lakeside: $8.10Riverside: $8.02Hills: $7.94Fremont: $7.86Larchwood: $7.52North English: $7.49Sloan: $7.49Sully: $7.41Fruitland: $7.21Lawton: $7.10Wayland: $7.07Raymond: $6.85Shueyville: $6.79Arnolds Park: $4.95Okoboji: $3.83Dunlap: $14.56$3.83 lowest$27.11 highestmiddle
See all 174
#PlaceRate per $1,000People
1Elkader$27.111,192
2Exira$24.81766
3Laurens$24.161,253
4Dayton$22.51766
5Correctionville$19.84759
6Villisca$19.741,106
7Corning$19.361,509
8Allison$19.06937
9Dysart$17.951,266
10Greene$17.91971
11Alden$17.90738
12Lansing$17.67959
13Strawberry Point$17.581,141
14Rockwell$17.541,044
15Walnut$17.46728
16Gowrie$17.17943
17Colo$17.14856
18Mapleton$16.901,114
19George$16.891,106
20Fayette$16.851,193
21Adair$16.84792
22Eddyville$16.82965
23Nashua$16.811,515
24Oxford$16.70715
25Ackley$16.631,538
26Buffalo Center$16.58839
27Roland$16.511,376
28Eldon$16.42788
29Monona$16.411,462
30Aplington$16.341,088
31Panora$16.141,096
32Mechanicsville$16.12974
33Dike$15.941,293
34Armstrong$15.87847
35Ruthven$15.84710
36Holstein$15.811,475
37State Center$15.801,403
38Earlham$15.551,411
39Shell Rock$15.521,265
40Brooklyn$15.491,474
41Newell$15.49850
42Riceville$15.31807
43Neola$15.30917
44Sidney$15.191,048
45Gilbertville$15.15792
46Logan$15.051,351
47Stratford$15.03688
48Griswold$15.01975
49Readlyn$14.99857
50Tripoli$14.991,208
51Essex$14.76721
52Bedford$14.661,474
53Lenox$14.651,355
54Manning$14.621,390
55Dunlap$14.561,030
56Garnavillo$14.52751
57Maxwell$14.50862
58Coon Rapids$14.491,258
59Nora Springs$14.251,330
60Kingsley$14.251,394
61Mcgregor$14.20725
62Primghar$14.18893
63Sheffield$14.161,123
64Woodward$14.051,383
65Ossian$13.88777
66Alton$13.871,248
67Montezuma$13.791,421
68Redfield$13.73719
69Victor$13.72852
70Gilbert$13.711,397
71Edgewood$13.64908
72Sioux Rapids$13.63722
73Donnellson$13.63859
74Gladbrook$13.58775
75Clarksville$13.531,238
76Rockford$13.52722
77Janesville$13.431,052
78Glidden$13.431,140
79Calmar$13.391,100
80Boyden$13.39694
81Baxter$13.32983
82Manly$13.291,233
83Anita$13.28953
84Van Horne$13.27768
85Conrad$13.231,098
86Springville$13.221,161
87Keota$13.21888
88Shellsburg$13.20987
89De Soto$13.18937
90Treynor$13.031,104
91Odebolt$13.00967
92Coggon$12.99691
93Akron$12.931,545
94Earlville$12.90713
95Danville$12.87910
96Underwood$12.85973
97New Sharon$12.801,249
98Malvern$12.791,056
99Montrose$12.78734
100Wellsburg$12.68709
101Buffalo$12.681,163
102Sanborn$12.621,463
103Hospers$12.58703
104Hazleton$12.48711
105West Point$12.39903
106Hinton$12.38959
107Preston$12.38940
108Hubbard$12.30837
109Hedrick$12.22717
110Carson$12.22772
111Wheatland$12.18765
112Schaller$12.14702
113Winfield$12.041,006
114Elkhart$12.001,079
115Afton$11.96864
116Lowden$11.93767
117Tabor$11.88983
118Wellman$11.881,531
119Aurelia$11.84970
120Merrill$11.64713
121Morning Sun$11.50702
122Wall Lake$11.43739
123West Bend$11.42770
124Dakota City$11.39764
125Marcus$11.311,069
126Dunkerton$11.30840
127Whiting$11.21725
128Melcher-Dallas$11.211,193
129Shelby$11.17730
130University Heights$11.121,188
131Blairstown$11.04705
132Manilla$11.01756
133Hamburg$10.95863
134Clarence$10.94991
135Oakland$10.851,519
136Cambridge$10.53844
137Swisher$10.39909
138Schleswig$10.39820
139Melbourne$10.38771
140Elk Run Heights$10.331,061
141Fredericksburg$10.27983
142Lake Park$10.251,155
143Ventura$10.22701
144Inwood$10.22962
145Milo$10.20762
146Hartford$10.16729
147Central City$10.011,254
148Newhall$9.99887
149Graettinger$9.81810
150Long Grove$9.59849
151Lake View$9.391,120
152Paullina$9.21979
153Fairbank$9.001,133
154Winthrop$8.94814
155Walford$8.721,357
156Keosauqua$8.58944
157Grand Junction$8.57715
158Princeton$8.24917
159Lone Tree$8.131,341
160Lakeside$8.10695
161Riverside$8.021,063
162Hills$7.94911
163Fremont$7.86688
164Larchwood$7.52954
165North English$7.491,030
166Sloan$7.491,078
167Sully$7.41891
168Fruitland$7.21928
169Lawton$7.10949
170Wayland$7.07935
171Raymond$6.85754
172Shueyville$6.79725
173Arnolds Park$4.951,214
174Okoboji$3.83729

The $8.10 limit

Dunlap’s general levy is $7.94 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.16 below the limit.4 502 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.26 · FY26 $8.18 · FY27 $7.94 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $6.62 more5

  • Total Employee Benefit Levies$5.47 · $286,277
  • Debt Service Levy$0.76 · $44,486
  • Liability, property & self insurance costs$0.40 · $20,753

Tax increment financing (TIF)

$6.5M of taxable value in Dunlap is in TIF districts’ increment (11% of the city’s taxable value), 2025 valuations, taxed in FY27.6 It budgeted $207,890 in TIF revenue for FY18.

$252,152

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 $90,340 of the city’s own.

  • Boyer Valley schools$53,659
  • Harrison County$41,567
YearTIF revenue
FY16$36,164
FY20$247,978
FY21$202,118
FY22$208,311
FY23$252,152
Show the numbers
YearTIF revenue
FY16$36,164
FY20$247,978
FY21$202,118
FY22$208,311
FY23$252,152

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$415,40554%
  • Total Employee Benefit Levies$286,27737%
  • Debt Service Levy$44,4866%
  • Liability, property & self insurance costs$20,7533%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Dunlap’s budget goes, FY26

Business Type / Enterprise: 44¢ of every dollar44¢Public Safety: 17¢ of every dollar17¢General Government: 14¢ of every dollar14¢Culture and Recreation: 10¢ of every dollar10¢Public Works: 10¢ of every dollar10¢Everything else: 5¢ of every dollar

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 173 Iowa cities closest in size (690–1,500 people).

Where it goesOf each dollarCities this size (173)
Business Type / Enterprise44¢40¢
Public Safety17¢10¢
General Government14¢9¢
Culture and Recreation10¢9¢
Public Works10¢15¢
Everything else5¢8¢

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$301,95031%
  • General Government$268,10028%
  • Public Works$164,00017%
  • Culture and Recreation$143,20015%
  • Community and Economic Development$47,5005%
  • Debt Service$45,0005%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($750,000 in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23
FunctionBudgetSpent
Public Works$203,700$207,013
Public Safety$301,740$301,547
Health and Social Services$0$0
General Government$153,950$159,271
Debt Service$54,057$0
Culture and Recreation$132,000$131,458
Community and Economic Development$10,000$5,000
Capital Projects$247,978$0
Business Type / Enterprise$500,995$406,142

What it spent each year

FY24 left out8

$2.0M

Debt, reserves and audits

How local debt works · What an audit tells you

What Dunlap owes

$1.2M at June 30, 2026: $1,111 per resident. 523rd most per resident of 939 Iowa places of its kind (the list).9

$1.9M
$1.2M
June 30OwedPer resident
2026$1.2M$1,111
2025$1.2M$1,147
2024$1.3M$1,239
2023$965,473$930
2022$1.2M$1,125
2021$1.4M$1,343
2020$1.6M$1,574
2019$1.9M$1,862
2018$1.0M$1,000
2017$1.2M$1,165
2016$1.1M$1,093
2015$1.3M$1,252
2014$176,667$170
2013$258,414$249
2012$364,761$351
2011$371,006$357
2010$441,434$425
Show the numbers
June 30OwedPer resident
2026$1.2M$1,111
2025$1.2M$1,147
2024$1.3M$1,239
2023$965,473$930
2022$1.2M$1,125
2021$1.4M$1,343
2020$1.6M$1,574
2019$1.9M$1,862
2018$1.0M$1,000
2017$1.2M$1,165
2016$1.1M$1,093
2015$1.3M$1,252
2014$176,667$170
2013$258,414$249
2012$364,761$351
2011$371,006$357
2010$441,434$425

Up 161% since 2010.

The 5% limit10

General obligation debt is $76,571, 2% of the limit of about $4.6M (5% of $92.1M, the full value of its taxable property in 2024).

3 obligations at June 30, 2026
KindForPaid off byOwed
Revenue BondsRevenue TIF Housing2034$693,523
LoansTIF Sharing Industrial2028$383,031
General Obligation100 blk Iowa Avenue Street Replacement project2030$76,571

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. Dunlap’s latest audit has them: Annual Examination, period ending Friday, June 30, 2017 (PDF).

Audits12

The latest: Annual Examination for the period ending Friday, June 30, 2017 (PDF), released Wednesday, January 17, 2018, by a CPA firm.

3 earlier reports for Dunlap

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: $147,416 in FY25, up 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 13% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers
SourceFY22FY23FY24FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)$143,586$143,586$146,620$147,416

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

  • Road Use Tax (streets)−13%$134,612 → $147,416, 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 71% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 36% more.

$134,198

Federal grants, for comparison: $14,909 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 · 1

3 seats: the top 3 win.

1 more →

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Dunlap; 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.

  • Dunlap City Council At-Large (2 seats)
    Now held by Michael J. Bonsall, Steven Wingrove
  • Dunlap Mayor
    Now held by Jason Knickman

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

Mark Costello (Sen. 8)Matt W. Windschitl (Rep. 15)

U.S. House:District 4

Harrison CountyBoyer Valley schools