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Coburg

$3,130 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($37.15 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$740 a yearof that goes to the city ($8.77 per $1,000)

$5,228property taxes the city levies, FY27

$21,600city budget, all funds, FY27²

Who runs it

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

Amy EgglestonCoburg City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Tammi ReddCoburg City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
William HardyCoburg Mayor · 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 Coburg

Homes and businesses in most of Coburg pay a combined $37.15 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Montgomery County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $8.77. Estimate your bill.

Red Oak schools$15.2641%
City of Coburg$8.7724%
Montgomery County$8.0822%
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital$3.068%
Southwestern Community College$1.073%
Montgomery County Assessor$0.602%
Montgomery County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.30<1%

Rates over time

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

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$40.03	$11.47
FY21	$40.88	$12.08
FY22	$40.23	$11.69
FY23	$36.15	$8.10
FY24	$36.83	$8.14
FY25	$37.13	$8.89
FY26	$37.44	$8.87
FY27	$37.15	$8.77

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$40.03	$11.47
FY21	$40.88	$12.08
FY22	$40.23	$11.69
FY23	$36.15	$8.10
FY24	$36.83	$8.14
FY25	$37.13	$8.89
FY26	$37.44	$8.87
FY27	$37.15	$8.77

Compared with places this size³

Coburg’s city property tax rate of $8.77 per $1,000 is the 11th highest of 24 Iowa cities with 20–40 people. The middle of the group is $8.28.

See all 24

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Gillett Grove	$14.27	31
2	Jolley	$13.34	28
3	Rodman	$13.31	28
4	Rinard	$12.56	38
5	Curlew	$10.85	38
6	Dana	$10.85	34
7	Owasa	$10.58	30
8	Imogene	$9.10	37
9	Buck Grove	$9.08	31
10	Carbon	$8.78	32
11	Coburg	$8.77	26
12	Aspinwall	$8.45	35
13	Elkport	$8.10	29
14	Galt	$8.10	22
15	Maloy	$7.94	26
16	Coppock	$7.94	35
17	Millerton	$7.86	37
18	Blanchard	$7.52	29
19	Yetter	$7.36	19
20	Ellston	$7.07	23
21	Udell	$6.85	31
22	Pleasanton	$6.65	32
23	Berkley	$6.13	23
24	Jackson Junction	$3.66	38

The $8.10 limit

Coburg’s general levy is $8.02 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.08 below the limit.⁴ 410 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 $8.02 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $0.74 more⁵

Total Employee Benefit Levies$0.74 · $444

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$4,78492%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$4448%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Coburg’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 24 Iowa cities closest in size (20–40 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (24)
Public Works	48¢	42¢
General Government	38¢	37¢
Culture and Recreation	12¢	7¢
Public Safety	2¢	5¢

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 Works$11,50053%
General Government$8,20038%
Culture and Recreation$1,5007%
Public Safety$4002%

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$9,700	$4,918
Public Safety	$350	$329
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$8,900	$5,761
Debt Service	$0	$0
Culture and Recreation	$1,500	$1,500
Community and Economic Development	$0	$0
Capital Projects	$0	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$0	$0

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$16,996

$11,735

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: $3,229 in FY25, down 42% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 54% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$7,000	$7,000	$2,432	$2,939
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	–	–	$290	$290

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−58%$5,608 → $2,939, down 48% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 58% 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 down 18% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 35% less.

$5,000

$3,130

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Coburg City Council At-Large

2 seats: the top 2 win.

Tammi Redd Winner956.3%
Amy Eggleston Winner743.8%

Coburg Mayor

William Hardy Unopposed8100.0%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸

Tom Shipley (Sen. 9)Thomas Jay Moore (Rep. 18)

U.S. House:District 3

Montgomery County Red Oak 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 Coburg; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Coburg 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.