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Fruitland

$2,260 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($26.86 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$610 a yearof that goes to the city ($7.21 per $1,000)

$275,413property taxes the city levies, FY27

$996,660city budget, all funds, FY27²

Who runs it

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

Christopher PainterFruitland City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Jennifer SmithFruitland City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Marty HillsFruitland Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Tamara BowersFruitland City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Sarah HillmanFruitland City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Susan GarrettFruitland 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

Where a property tax dollar goes in Fruitland

The combined rate in most of Fruitland is $26.86 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). The city sets only its own piece. Estimate your bill.

Louisa-Muscatine schools$11.1842%
City of Fruitland$7.2127%
Muscatine County$7.0326%
Eastern Iowa Community. College$1.044%
Muscatine County Assessor$0.25<1%
Muscatine County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.14<1%

Compared with places this size³

Fruitland’s city property tax rate of $7.21 per $1,000 is the 7th lowest of 178 Iowa cities with 620–1,400 people. The middle of the group is $12.99.

See all 178

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Elkader	$27.11	1,192
2	Exira	$24.81	766
3	Laurens	$24.16	1,253
4	Dayton	$22.51	766
5	Correctionville	$19.84	759
6	Villisca	$19.74	1,106
7	Allison	$19.06	937
8	Seymour	$18.78	646
9	Dexter	$18.69	631
10	Fonda	$18.52	636
11	Kanawha	$18.11	638
12	Dysart	$17.95	1,266
13	Greene	$17.91	971
14	Alden	$17.90	738
15	Lansing	$17.67	959
16	Strawberry Point	$17.58	1,141
17	Rockwell	$17.54	1,044
18	Walnut	$17.46	728
19	Gowrie	$17.17	943
20	Colo	$17.14	856
21	Mapleton	$16.90	1,114
22	George	$16.89	1,106
23	Fayette	$16.85	1,193
24	Adair	$16.84	792
25	Eddyville	$16.82	965
26	Elk Horn	$16.78	631
27	Oxford	$16.70	715
28	Buffalo Center	$16.58	839
29	Bancroft	$16.52	677
30	Roland	$16.51	1,376
31	Eldon	$16.42	788
32	Aplington	$16.34	1,088
33	Panora	$16.14	1,096
34	Mechanicsville	$16.12	974
35	Dike	$15.94	1,293
36	Armstrong	$15.87	847
37	Ruthven	$15.84	710
38	Walker	$15.74	671
39	Shell Rock	$15.52	1,265
40	Newell	$15.49	850
41	Riceville	$15.31	807
42	Neola	$15.30	917
43	Sidney	$15.19	1,048
44	Gilbertville	$15.15	792
45	Logan	$15.05	1,351
46	Stratford	$15.03	688
47	Griswold	$15.01	975
48	Readlyn	$14.99	857
49	Tripoli	$14.99	1,208
50	Hopkinton	$14.79	622
51	Essex	$14.76	721
52	Lenox	$14.65	1,355
53	Manning	$14.62	1,390
54	Dunlap	$14.56	1,030
55	Garnavillo	$14.52	751
56	Maxwell	$14.50	862
57	Coon Rapids	$14.49	1,258
58	Nora Springs	$14.25	1,330
59	Mcgregor	$14.20	725
60	Olin	$14.19	652
61	Primghar	$14.18	893
62	Sheffield	$14.16	1,123
63	Elgin	$14.05	676
64	Woodward	$14.05	1,383
65	Ossian	$13.88	777
66	Alton	$13.87	1,248
67	Redfield	$13.73	719
68	Victor	$13.72	852
69	Edgewood	$13.64	908
70	Sioux Rapids	$13.63	722
71	Donnellson	$13.63	859
72	Gladbrook	$13.58	775
73	Clarksville	$13.53	1,238
74	Rockford	$13.52	722
75	Janesville	$13.43	1,052
76	Glidden	$13.43	1,140
77	Calmar	$13.39	1,100
78	Boyden	$13.39	694
79	Baxter	$13.32	983
80	Manly	$13.29	1,233
81	Anita	$13.28	953
82	Van Horne	$13.27	768
83	Conrad	$13.23	1,098
84	Springville	$13.22	1,161
85	Keota	$13.21	888
86	Shellsburg	$13.20	987
87	De Soto	$13.18	937
88	Treynor	$13.03	1,104
89	Odebolt	$13.00	967
90	Coggon	$12.99	691
91	Earlville	$12.90	713
92	Danville	$12.87	910
93	Underwood	$12.85	973
94	New Sharon	$12.80	1,249
95	Malvern	$12.79	1,056
96	Montrose	$12.78	734
97	Wellsburg	$12.68	709
98	Buffalo	$12.68	1,163
99	Stanton	$12.62	664
100	Hospers	$12.58	703
101	Hazleton	$12.48	711
102	West Point	$12.39	903
103	Hinton	$12.38	959
104	Preston	$12.38	940
105	Alburnett	$12.30	672
106	Hubbard	$12.30	837
107	Moravia	$12.27	625
108	Hedrick	$12.22	717
109	Carson	$12.22	772
110	Wheatland	$12.18	765
111	Schaller	$12.14	702
112	Winfield	$12.04	1,006
113	Elkhart	$12.00	1,079
114	Afton	$11.96	864
115	Lowden	$11.93	767
116	Tabor	$11.88	983
117	Albert City	$11.88	627
118	Aurelia	$11.84	970
119	Merrill	$11.64	713
120	Morning Sun	$11.50	702
121	Battle Creek	$11.49	683
122	Wall Lake	$11.43	739
123	West Bend	$11.42	770
124	Dakota City	$11.39	764
125	Marcus	$11.31	1,069
126	Dunkerton	$11.30	840
127	Sutherland	$11.25	628
128	Whiting	$11.21	725
129	Melcher-Dallas	$11.21	1,193
130	Shelby	$11.17	730
131	University Heights	$11.12	1,188
132	Blairstown	$11.04	705
133	Manilla	$11.01	756
134	Hamburg	$10.95	863
135	Clarence	$10.94	991
136	Fontanelle	$10.88	684
137	Cambridge	$10.53	844
138	Swisher	$10.39	909
139	Schleswig	$10.39	820
140	Melbourne	$10.38	771
141	Elk Run Heights	$10.33	1,061
142	Fredericksburg	$10.27	983
143	Lake Park	$10.25	1,155
144	Ventura	$10.22	701
145	Inwood	$10.22	962
146	Milo	$10.20	762
147	Hartford	$10.16	729
148	Central City	$10.01	1,254
149	Newhall	$9.99	887
150	Graettinger	$9.81	810
151	Doon	$9.78	640
152	Long Grove	$9.59	849
153	Lake View	$9.39	1,120
154	Paullina	$9.21	979
155	Fairbank	$9.00	1,133
156	Winthrop	$8.94	814
157	Walford	$8.72	1,357
158	Crescent	$8.72	626
159	Keosauqua	$8.58	944
160	Grand Junction	$8.57	715
161	Princeton	$8.24	917
162	Lone Tree	$8.13	1,341
163	Lakeside	$8.10	695
164	Riverside	$8.02	1,063
165	Agency	$7.94	623
166	Hills	$7.94	911
167	Fremont	$7.86	688
168	Larchwood	$7.52	954
169	North English	$7.49	1,030
170	Sloan	$7.49	1,078
171	Sully	$7.41	891
172	Fruitland	$7.21	928
173	Lawton	$7.10	949
174	Wayland	$7.07	935
175	Raymond	$6.85	754
176	Shueyville	$6.79	725
177	Arnolds Park	$4.95	1,214
178	Okoboji	$3.83	729

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$273,693100%

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Fruitland’s budget goes, FY26

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (177)
Public Works	31¢	15¢
Capital Projects	31¢	9¢
General Government	17¢	9¢
Public Safety	10¢	10¢
Debt Service	7¢	6¢
Everything else	4¢	11¢

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 177 Iowa cities closest in size (620–1,400 people).

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$302,82830%
Capital Projects$280,00028%
General Government$169,29517%
Public Safety$102,21910%
Debt Service$73,5137%
Culture and Recreation$66,8057%
Community and Economic Development$2,0000%

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$256,989	$250,616
Public Safety	$93,557	$90,220
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$114,754	$127,556
Debt Service	$73,463	$73,463
Culture and Recreation	$79,922	$53,586
Community and Economic Development	$1,000	$893
Capital Projects	$353,171	$0
Business Type / Enterprise	$0	$0

What it spent each year

$2.0M

$596,334

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State money

What the state sends the city

Sales tax and property tax credits the state paid the city: down 0% since FY23; down 9% after inflation.

In today's dollarsActual dollars

Show the numbers

Program	FY27	FY26	FY25	FY24	FY23
Local option sales tax	$11,132	$136,050	$137,859	$137,624	$136,603

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 2

Fruitland City Council At-Large

3 seats: the top 3 win.

Christopher Painter Winner16935.8%
Jennifer Smith Winner16234.3%
Tamara Bowers Winner14129.9%

Fruitland Mayor

Marty Hills Winner14874.0%
Justin Allison 5226.0%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁴

Mark S. Lofgren (Sen. 48)Taylor R. Collins (Rep. 95)

U.S. House:District 1

Muscatine County Louisa-Muscatine 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. ↩
Legislative and congressional districts that cover Fruitland; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Fruitland 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.