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Cedar Rapids

$3,460 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($41.13 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,400 a yearof that goes to the city ($16.66 per $1,000)

$131.3Mproperty taxes the city levies, FY27

$416.0Mcity 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.

Ashley VanornyCedar Rapids City Council District 5 · elected November 4, 2025
Dale ToddCedar Rapids City Council District 3 · elected November 4, 2025
Marty HoegerCedar Rapids City Council District 1 · elected November 4, 2025
Tiffany O'DonnellCedar Rapids Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Tyler OlsonCedar Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Ann PoeCedar Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
David MaierCedar Rapids City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Scott E. OlsonCedar Rapids City Council District 4 · elected November 7, 2023
Scott OverlandCedar Rapids City Council District 2 · 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 Cedar Rapids

Homes and businesses in most of Cedar Rapids pay a combined $38.45 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Linn County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $16.66. Estimate your bill.

City of Cedar Rapids$16.6643%
Cedar Rapids schools$13.9136%
Linn County$6.0516%
Kirkwood Community College$1.434%
Cedar Rapids City Assessor$0.35<1%
Linn County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.05<1%

Rates over time

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

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$39.41	$15.44
FY21	$40.25	$15.66
FY22	$40.36	$15.88
FY23	$39.52	$16.03
FY24	$40.54	$16.25
FY25	$40.19	$16.47
FY26	$40.94	$16.66
FY27	$41.13	$16.66

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$39.41	$15.44
FY21	$40.25	$15.66
FY22	$40.36	$15.88
FY23	$39.52	$16.03
FY24	$40.54	$16.25
FY25	$40.19	$16.47
FY26	$40.94	$16.66
FY27	$41.13	$16.66

Compared with places this size³

Cedar Rapids’s city property tax rate of $16.66 per $1,000 is the 2nd highest of 9 Iowa cities with 67,000–213,000 people. The middle of the group is $15.51.

See all 9

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Waterloo	$21.77	67,477
2	Cedar Rapids	$16.66	137,904
3	Des Moines	$16.61	213,096
4	Davenport	$16.58	100,938
5	Sioux City	$15.51	86,875
6	Iowa City	$15.43	76,710
7	West Des Moines	$10.80	73,664
8	Ames	$10.27	69,026
9	Ankeny	$9.90	76,727

The $8.10 limit

Cedar Rapids’s general levy is $8.15 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.05 above the limit; it has to come down in steps.⁴ 174 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.32 · FY26 $8.15 · FY27 $8.15 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $8.50 more⁵

Debt Service Levy$3.97 · $33.6M
Total Employee Benefit Levies$3.49 · $26.7M
Opr & Maint publicly owned Transit$0.78 · $5.9M
Liability, property & self insurance costs$0.26 · $2.0M

Tax increment financing (TIF)

$843.8M of taxable value in Cedar Rapids is in TIF districts’ increment (10% of the city’s taxable value), 2025 valuations, taxed in FY27.⁶ It budgeted $22.3M in TIF revenue for FY25.

$19.7M

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 $10.7M of the city’s own.

Cedar Rapids schools$5.0M
Linn County$4.8M
College schools$2.3M
Linn Mar schools$579,984

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$10.4M
FY17	$9.7M
FY18	$5.9M
FY19	$9.5M
FY20	$10.6M
FY21	$14.5M
FY22	$18.4M
FY23	$19.7M

Show the numbers

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$10.4M
FY17	$9.7M
FY18	$5.9M
FY19	$9.5M
FY20	$10.6M
FY21	$14.5M
FY22	$18.4M
FY23	$19.7M

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$62.2M48%
Debt Service Levy$33.6M26%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$26.7M20%
Opr & Maint publicly owned Transit$5.9M5%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$2.0M2%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Cedar 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 8 Iowa cities closest in size (67,000–213,000 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (8)
Business Type / Enterprise	52¢	36¢
Capital Projects	20¢	19¢
Public Safety	9¢	15¢
Debt Service	5¢	9¢
Community and Economic Development	4¢	5¢
Everything else	10¢	15¢

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$152.5M37%
Public Safety$87.5M21%
Debt Service$47.6M11%
Community and Economic Development$38.0M9%
Public Works$35.8M9%
General Government$33.8M8%
Culture and Recreation$20.8M5%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($446.5M in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$26.7M	$27.8M
Public Safety	$70.0M	$87.2M
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$23.8M	$23.2M
Debt Service	$38.7M	$28.6M
Culture and Recreation	$22.4M	$23.7M
Community and Economic Development	$26.6M	$30.0M
Capital Projects	$142.9M	$138.7M
Business Type / Enterprise	$341.7M	$308.2M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁸

$912.9M

Debt, reserves and audits

How local debt works · What an audit tells you

What Cedar Rapids owes

$747.9M at June 30, 2026: $5,431 per resident. 99th most per resident of 939 Iowa places of its kind (the list).⁹

$747.9M

June 30	Owed	Per resident
2026	$747.9M	$5,431
2025	$662.6M	$4,812
2024	$595.9M	$4,328
2023	$552.3M	$4,011
2022	$502.7M	$3,650
2021	$475.3M	$3,451
2020	$451.6M	$3,279
2019	$433.7M	$3,149
2018	$428.4M	$3,111
2017	$424.2M	$3,080
2016	$434.3M	$3,154
2015	$445.9M	$3,238
2014	$447.7M	$3,251
2013	$445.5M	$3,235
2012	$430.6M	$3,127
2011	$377.4M	$2,740
2010	$356.1M	$2,586

Show the numbers

June 30	Owed	Per resident
2026	$747.9M	$5,431
2025	$662.6M	$4,812
2024	$595.9M	$4,328
2023	$552.3M	$4,011
2022	$502.7M	$3,650
2021	$475.3M	$3,451
2020	$451.6M	$3,279
2019	$433.7M	$3,149
2018	$428.4M	$3,111
2017	$424.2M	$3,080
2016	$434.3M	$3,154
2015	$445.9M	$3,238
2014	$447.7M	$3,251
2013	$445.5M	$3,235
2012	$430.6M	$3,127
2011	$377.4M	$2,740
2010	$356.1M	$2,586

Up 110% since 2010.

The 5% limit¹⁰

General obligation debt is $450.5M, 63% of the limit of about $717.5M (5% of $14.35B, the full value of its taxable property in 2024).

58 obligations at June 30, 2026

Kind	For	Paid off by	Owed
Loans	Series 2024D - Tax Exempt WPC SRF Loan #1	2054	$82.6M
General Obligation	Series 2025A General Obligation Bonds	2055	$52.7M
General Obligation	Series 2024A General Obligation Bonds	2054	$50.8M
General Obligation	Series 2020A Infrastructure & Refunding	2050	$48.6M
General Obligation	Series 2026A General Obligation Bonds	2056	$44.9M
General Obligation	Series 2023A General Obligation Bonds	2053	$44.6M
General Obligation	Series 2021A Infrastructure & Refunding	2051	$42.1M
General Obligation	Series 2022A General Infrastructure	2052	$40.3M
Loans	Series 2024E - Solids - Taxable WPC SRF Loan #1	2045	$21.3M
Loans	Water SRF 2022	2042	$18.0M
General Obligation	Series 2020B Infrastructure & Refunding	2042	$16.3M
General Obligation	Series 2018A Infrastructure & Refunding	2038	$16.3M
General Obligation	Series 2019A General Infrastructure	2039	$12.9M
Loans	Series 2025D - Tax Exempt WPC SRF Loan #1 - C1530R	2055	$12.5M
General Obligation	Series 2017A Infrastructure & Refunding	2037	$12.0M
General Obligation	Series 2020E Refunding	2032	$11.9M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2025C Water Revenue Bonds	2045	$9.8M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2018C Infrastructure & Refunding	2038	$9.7M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2023C Water Revenue Bonds	2043	$9.1M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2018D Infrastructure & Refunding	2038	$8.9M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2019C Sewer Infrastructure	2039	$8.8M
Loans	Series 2025E - Taxable WPC SRF Loan #2 - C1531RT	2046	$8.6M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2024B Water Revenue Bonds	2044	$8.4M
General Obligation	Series 2021B Refunding	2043	$8.3M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2016D Water Infrastructure	2036	$8.1M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2021D Water Infrastructure & Refunding	2041	$7.7M
Loans	Water SRF 2008	2029	$7.5M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2021C Sewer Infrastructure & Refunding	2041	$7.3M
General Obligation	Series 2016A Infrastructure & Refunding	2036	$7.0M
General Obligation	Series 2026B Taxable General Obligation Bonds	2046	$6.9M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2022D Water Infrastructure	2042	$6.8M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2017C Infrastructure & Refunding	2037	$5.9M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2014C Sewer Infrastructure	2034	$5.8M
General Obligation	Series 2015B General Infrastucture	2035	$5.6M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2017D Infrastructure & Refunding	2037	$5.5M
General Obligation	Series 2023B Taxable General Obligation Bonds	2043	$5.5M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2020D Infrastructure & Refunding	2040	$5.4M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2019D Infrastructure & Refunding	2039	$5.1M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2015D Water Infrastructure	2035	$5.0M
General Obligation	Series 2018B General Infrastructure	2038	$5.0M
General Obligation	Series 2021E Refunding	2033	$4.4M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2020C Sewer Infrastructure	2040	$4.0M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2022C Sewer Infrastructure	2042	$4.0M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2015C Sewer Infrastucture	2035	$3.7M
Loans	Series 2025 - Water SRF - Anticipation Project Note	2028	$3.2M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2026C Water Revenue Bonds	2046	$3.1M
General Obligation	Series 2022B General Infrastructure	2037	$2.9M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2016C Sewer Infrastructure	2036	$2.8M
General Obligation	Series 2014B General Infrastructure	2034	$2.6M
General Obligation	Series 2025B Taxable General Obligation Bonds	2041	$2.4M
General Obligation	Series 2014A General Infrastucture	2033	$2.3M
Loans	WPC SRF 2011	2033	$2.3M
Revenue Bonds	Series 2014D Water Infrastructure	2034	$2.3M
General Obligation	Series 2019B Infrastructure & Refunding	2031	$2.2M
Loans	WPC SRF 2008	2029	$2.0M
General Obligation	Series 2015A Infrastructure & Refunding	2035	$1.8M
Loans	WPC SRF 2015	2035	$1.1M
Loans	Series 2024 WPC SRF PFAS Forgivable loan	2042	$973,161

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. Cedar Rapids’s latest audit has them: Financial Statement, period ending Monday, June 30, 2025 (PDF).

Audits¹²

The latest: Financial Statement for the period ending Monday, June 30, 2025 (PDF), released Friday, January 30, 2026, by a CPA firm.

16 earlier reports for Cedar Rapids

Financial Statement, period ending Sunday, June 30, 2024Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Financial Statement, period ending Friday, June 30, 2023Friday, April 19, 2024
Financial Statement, period ending Thursday, June 30, 2022Monday, March 27, 2023
Financial Statement, period ending Wednesday, June 30, 2021Thursday, February 24, 2022
Financial Statement, period ending Tuesday, June 30, 2020Thursday, February 25, 2021
Financial Statement, period ending Sunday, June 30, 2019Friday, March 13, 2020
Financial Statement, period ending Saturday, June 30, 2018Monday, March 4, 2019
Financial Statement, period ending Friday, June 30, 2017Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Financial Statement, period ending Thursday, June 30, 2016Friday, March 3, 2017
Financial Statement, period ending Tuesday, June 30, 2015Monday, February 1, 2016
Financial Statement, period ending Monday, June 30, 2014Friday, February 27, 2015
Financial Statement, period ending Sunday, June 30, 2013Monday, March 3, 2014
Financial Statement, period ending Saturday, June 30, 2012Thursday, February 28, 2013
Financial Statement, period ending Thursday, June 30, 2011Monday, February 20, 2012
Financial Statement, period ending Wednesday, June 30, 2010Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Financial Statement, period ending Tuesday, June 30, 2009Monday, February 15, 2010

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: $24.2M in FY25, up 18% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 6% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$18.5M	$19.2M	$17.9M	$19.5M
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	$4.2M	$3.6M	$5.1M	$4.7M

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.

$31.0M

State grants$18.5M60%
Iowa DOT projects$12.2M39%
Iowa Economic Development Authority$332,4731%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$14.9M
FY20	$19.6M
FY21	$17.8M
FY22	$25.7M
FY23	$22.8M
FY24	$23.4M
FY25	$31.0M

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$14.9M
FY20	$19.6M
FY21	$17.8M
FY22	$25.7M
FY23	$22.8M
FY24	$23.4M
FY25	$31.0M

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−5%$16.3M → $19.5M, up 19% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 5% less
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)−10%$4.2M → $4.7M, up 13% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 10% 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 48% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 18% more.

$31.2M

$28.5M

Federal grants, for comparison: $63.2M in FY25.

Business awards

Every award statewide

State economic development awards

16 businesses have state awards in CEDAR RAPIDS: $17.6M in grants, loans and tax benefits, for 880 jobs. Closed projects promised 43 jobs; 43 were there at the end.¹⁴

Ingredion Incorporated
High Quality Jobs Program · FY25 · Under contract: Building · 4 jobs required
$1.1M
Danisco US, INC/IFF
High Quality Jobs Program · FY24 · Under contract: Building · 40 jobs required
$1.7M
Google, LLC
High Quality Jobs Program · FY24 · Under contract: Building · 31 jobs required
$0
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
High Quality Jobs Program · FY23 · Under contract: Building · 41 jobs required
$1.8M
International Paper, Co.
High Quality Jobs Program · FY23 · Under contract: Building · 7 jobs required
$1.2M
JRS Pharma, LP
High Quality Jobs Program · FY23 · Under contract: Building · 18 jobs required
$1.0M
Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
High Quality Jobs Program · FY22 · Not going ahead: Declined or withdrawn · 32 jobs required
$178K
Danisco Us Inc., a Subsidiary of International Flavors & Fragrances
High Quality Jobs Program · FY21 · Under contract: Keeping the jobs · 8 jobs required, 8 reported
$686K

and 15 more on economic development awards

Community college new jobs training: 179 contracts since 1995 worth $70.5M, for 8,009 pledged jobs.

Awards 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)¹⁵.

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

Most recent: November 3, 2026

Ballot measures · 1

Cedar Rapids Public Measure D

Passed Yes 74.5% (40,129) · No 25.5% (13,755)

Passes with more yes votes than no.

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Cedar 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.

Cedar Rapids City Council At-Large (2 seats)
Now held by Ann Poe, David Maier
Cedar Rapids City Council District 2
Now held by Scott Overland
Cedar Rapids City Council District 4
Now held by Scott E. Olson

Candidates as county auditors and civicAPI list them; a filing can take a few days to appear here¹⁶.

Past ballot measures

Cedar Rapids Public Measure DNovember 3, 2026
Passed Yes 74.5% (40,129) · No 25.5% (13,755)
Passes with more yes votes than no.

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 ballot¹⁷.

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress¹⁸

Liz Bennett (Sen. 39, 92%)Art Staed (Sen. 40, 7%)Jeff Cooling (Rep. 77, 87%)Angel Ramirez (Rep. 78, 4%)Aime Wichtendahl (Rep. 80, 4%)Tracy A. Ehlert (Rep. 79, 3%)

U.S. House:District 2

Linn County Cedar Rapids schools College schools Linn-Mar schools Marion schools Mount Vernon 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. ↩
From the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s project records on the Iowa Data Hub (High Quality Jobs and Targeted Jobs awards since about 2013). Projects that won’t go ahead aren’t counted. ↩
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 Cedar Rapids; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Cedar 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.

Cedar Rapids

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

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

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $8.50 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 Cedar Rapids’s budget goes, FY26

Planned spending, FY27

What it spent each year

Debt, reserves and audits

What Cedar 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

State economic development awards

Elections

Most recent: November 3, 2026

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 Congress18

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $8.50 more⁵

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

The 5% limit¹⁰

Audits¹²

At the Statehouse and in Congress¹⁸