City

Grant

$3,740 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($44.36 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,580 a yearof that goes to the city ($18.71 per $1,000)

$18,352property taxes the city levies, FY27

$35,300city budget, all funds, FY27²

Who runs it

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

Clay AmosGrant Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Dawn ChalmersGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Erin AmosGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Lyn SligerGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Rebecca WestoverGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Zelda SwartzGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Chelsea DvorakGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Clay AmosGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Greg KarwalGrant City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Nancy TaylorGrant 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 Grant

Homes and businesses in most of Grant pay a combined $44.36 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, $18.71. Estimate your bill.

City of Grant$18.7142%
Griswold schools$12.1327%
Montgomery County$8.0818%
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital$3.067%
Iowa Western Community College$1.473%
Montgomery County Assessor$0.601%
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 Grant pay, and the city government’s own piece of it.

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$45.97	$18.59
FY21	$46.53	$18.83
FY22	$45.37	$18.64
FY23	$45.08	$18.93
FY24	$45.83	$19.34
FY25	$48.14	$21.81
FY26	$47.75	$21.51
FY27	$44.36	$18.71

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$45.97	$18.59
FY21	$46.53	$18.83
FY22	$45.37	$18.64
FY23	$45.08	$18.93
FY24	$45.83	$19.34
FY25	$48.14	$21.81
FY26	$47.75	$21.51
FY27	$44.36	$18.71

Compared with places this size³

Grant’s city property tax rate of $18.71 per $1,000 is the 10th highest of 103 Iowa cities with 60–120 people. The middle of the group is $9.22.

See all 103

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Castana	$34.13	103
2	Dougherty	$25.38	61
3	Hansell	$23.66	85
4	Whitten	$22.65	98
5	Stanley	$20.69	86
6	Rowan	$19.53	118
7	Ricketts	$19.22	105
8	Varina	$19.09	69
9	Sharpsburg	$18.93	69
10	Grant	$18.71	82
11	Derby	$18.13	89
12	Blockton	$16.37	123
13	Waterville	$16.25	112
14	Popejoy	$15.80	76
15	Marne	$15.03	109
16	Baldwin	$14.91	99
17	Truesdale	$14.56	64
18	Yorktown	$14.48	60
19	Ferguson	$13.53	98
20	Lanesboro	$13.53	112
21	Cylinder	$12.52	84
22	Aredale	$12.19	59
23	Arion	$12.14	99
24	East Peru	$11.89	119
25	Dolliver	$11.85	63
26	Morley	$11.74	94
27	Ledyard	$11.74	118
28	Toronto	$11.68	101
29	Matlock	$11.44	74
30	Melrose	$11.27	110
31	Nodaway	$11.20	74
32	Promise City	$11.13	91
33	Masonville	$11.00	98
34	Somers	$10.99	121
35	Numa	$10.80	69
36	Pacific Junction	$10.56	99
37	Oto	$10.45	71
38	Bradgate	$10.37	76
39	North Washington	$10.23	107
40	Dawson	$10.19	110
41	Guernsey	$10.13	59
42	Hartwick	$9.90	91
43	Gray	$9.85	62
44	Rutland	$9.65	116
45	Webster	$9.55	94
46	Nemaha	$9.53	65
47	Martinsburg	$9.49	109
48	Kirkman	$9.44	60
49	Larrabee	$9.41	116
50	Wiota	$9.32	91
51	Floris	$9.29	119
52	Mitchell	$9.22	118
53	Archer	$8.84	116
54	Fraser	$8.81	107
55	Macksburg	$8.81	103
56	Andover	$8.28	106
57	Unionville	$8.10	74
58	Rome	$8.10	112
59	Carpenter	$8.10	92
60	Orchard	$8.10	64
61	Turin	$8.10	69
62	Struble	$8.10	72
63	Westfield	$8.10	121
64	Shannon City	$8.10	73
65	Chillicothe	$8.10	79
66	Clio	$8.10	67
67	Scarville	$8.10	75
68	Buckeye	$7.94	82
69	Gruver	$7.89	63
70	Redding	$7.86	64
71	Morrison	$7.86	101
72	Oyens	$7.86	88
73	Ralston	$7.86	76
74	Chatsworth	$7.86	72
75	Cromwell	$7.81	104
76	Arispe	$7.71	95
77	Luzerne	$7.69	111
78	Westwood	$7.67	96
79	Kinross	$7.57	80
80	Bernard	$7.56	117
81	Bevington	$7.41	62
82	Garber	$7.35	76
83	Spring Hill	$7.26	68
84	Greenville	$7.24	69
85	Spragueville	$7.20	92
86	Craig	$7.01	78
87	Zwingle	$6.93	86
88	Pleasant Plain	$6.79	83
89	Willey	$6.69	72
90	Lincoln	$6.32	119
91	Tennant	$6.29	83
92	Sandyville	$6.06	59
93	Ackworth	$5.90	117
94	Harper	$5.29	117
95	Plano	$4.66	57
96	Hardy	$4.36	55
97	Keomah Village	$3.15	107
98	Mcintire	$2.78	115
99	Graf	$2.56	76
100	Centralia	$2.41	117
101	Gibson	$1.88	58
102	North Buena Vista	$1.78	107
103	Balltown	$0.12	78

The $8.10 limit

Grant’s general levy is $8.13 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.03 above the limit; it has to come down in steps.⁴ 185 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.37 · FY26 $8.37 · FY27 $8.13 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $10.59 more⁵

Liability, property & self insurance costs$5.71 · $5,225
Total Employee Benefit Levies$4.88 · $4,463

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$7,43843%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$5,22531%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$4,46326%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Grant’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 104 Iowa cities closest in size (60–120 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (104)
General Government	72¢	30¢
Public Works	22¢	31¢
Community and Economic Development	4¢	2¢
Culture and Recreation	1¢	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$23,15066%
Public Works$9,95028%
Culture and Recreation$1,2003%
Public Safety$1,0003%

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$19,000	$6,940
Public Safety	$6,000	$11,807
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$15,550	$9,883
Debt Service	$0	$0
Culture and Recreation	$1,500	$0
Community and Economic Development	$0	$0
Capital Projects	$0	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$0	$0

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁶

$82,703

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: $9,444 in FY25, down 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 28% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$9,238	$9,020	$9,359	$9,444

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.

$11,795

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$248
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$6,184
FY23	$11,795
FY24	$207
FY25	$0

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$248
FY20	$0
FY21	$0
FY22	$6,184
FY23	$11,795
FY24	$207
FY25	$0

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−28%$10,500 → $9,444, down 10% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 28% 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 9% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 13% less.

$11,697

$10,377

Federal grants, for comparison: $6,205 in FY23.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Grant City Council At-Large

5 seats: the top 5 win.

Erin Amos Winner1025.0%
Zelda Swartz Winner1025.0%
Lyn Sliger Winner1025.0%
Rebecca Westover Winner615.0%
Dawn Chalmers Winner410.0%

Grant Mayor

Clay Amos Unopposed10100.0%

Local races from civicAPI and county auditors for Grant; 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 Griswold 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 Grant; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Grant 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.

Grant

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Grant

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $10.59 more5

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Grant’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: $10.59 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁸