City

Hull

$2,650 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($31.41 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$990 a yearof that goes to the city ($11.79 per $1,000)

$1.2Mproperty taxes the city levies, FY27

$9.5Mcity 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.

Edwin WestraHull City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Faye De KamHull City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Les Van RoekelHull City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Arlan J. MossHull Mayor · elected November 7, 2023
Kyle Te SlaaHull City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Scott WestraHull 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 Hull

Homes and businesses in most of Hull pay a combined $31.41 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Sioux County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $11.79. Estimate your bill.

Boyden-Hull schools$13.9044%
City of Hull$11.7938%
Sioux County$4.0713%
Northwest Iowa Community College$1.314%
Sioux County Assessor$0.22<1%
Sioux County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.12<1%

Rates over time

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

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$32.32	$11.98
FY21	$32.46	$12.36
FY22	$32.20	$12.50
FY23	$31.91	$12.31
FY24	$32.54	$12.51
FY25	$32.30	$12.43
FY26	$32.00	$12.30
FY27	$31.41	$11.79

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$32.32	$11.98
FY21	$32.46	$12.36
FY22	$32.20	$12.50
FY23	$31.91	$12.31
FY24	$32.54	$12.51
FY25	$32.30	$12.43
FY26	$32.00	$12.30
FY27	$31.41	$11.79

Compared with places this size³

Hull’s city property tax rate of $11.79 per $1,000 is the 21st lowest of 87 Iowa cities with 1,600–3,600 people. The middle of the group is $13.62.

See all 87

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Eldora	$26.87	2,595
2	Pocahontas	$20.79	1,848
3	Rockwell City	$20.74	2,185
4	Bloomfield	$20.41	2,773
5	Belmond	$19.86	2,405
6	Sibley	$19.77	2,787
7	Albia	$19.70	3,579
8	Sac City	$19.69	1,992
9	Lake City	$19.32	1,656
10	Eagle Grove	$19.32	3,615
11	Toledo	$18.21	2,372
12	La Porte City	$18.08	2,267
13	Tama	$17.74	2,997
14	Clarion	$17.74	2,751
15	Britt	$17.72	2,001
16	Missouri Valley	$17.68	2,638
17	Madrid	$16.93	2,824
18	Manson	$16.87	1,646
19	West Union	$16.60	2,435
20	Audubon	$16.52	2,008
21	Grundy Center	$16.36	2,821
22	Belle Plaine	$16.34	2,335
23	Colfax	$16.25	2,305
24	Durant	$16.24	1,798
25	Lamoni	$16.15	2,072
26	Marengo	$16.10	2,415
27	Pleasantville	$15.80	1,696
28	Postville	$15.68	2,418
29	Tipton	$15.54	3,059
30	Stuart	$15.48	1,887
31	Granger	$15.22	2,095
32	Sigourney	$15.20	1,974
33	Guttenberg	$15.19	1,804
34	Sumner	$14.83	2,032
35	Woodbine	$14.80	1,707
36	Van Meter	$14.60	1,840
37	Rock Rapids	$14.57	2,709
38	Jesup	$14.31	2,541
39	Osage	$14.29	3,559
40	Parkersburg	$14.15	1,986
41	Ida Grove	$14.10	1,988
42	Lake Mills	$13.82	2,077
43	Emmetsburg	$13.70	3,632
44	Wilton	$13.62	2,914
45	Avoca	$13.51	1,685
46	New Hampton	$13.44	3,433
47	Wapello	$13.29	2,026
48	Hudson	$13.19	2,916
49	Center Point	$13.19	2,578
50	Greenfield	$13.13	1,988
51	Hawarden	$13.02	2,630
52	Leon	$12.93	1,779
53	Garner	$12.86	3,049
54	Bellevue	$12.67	2,321
55	Milford	$12.57	3,258
56	New London	$12.56	1,853
57	Lisbon	$12.50	2,238
58	Dallas Center	$12.42	1,993
59	Onawa	$12.32	2,795
60	Remsen	$12.32	1,681
61	Monroe	$12.28	2,021
62	Denver	$12.27	1,955
63	Alta	$12.13	2,039
64	Reinbeck	$12.10	1,673
65	Atkins	$11.99	2,168
66	Blue Grass	$11.79	1,707
67	Hull	$11.79	2,459
68	Columbus Junction	$11.71	1,794
69	Cascade	$11.64	2,396
70	West Branch	$11.63	2,876
71	Mitchellville	$11.54	2,686
72	Solon	$11.53	3,284
73	Prairie City	$11.38	1,722
74	Northwood	$11.28	2,047
75	Mediapolis	$11.27	1,679
76	Williamsburg	$11.11	3,380
77	Ely	$11.08	2,371
78	Ogden	$10.99	1,970
79	Farley	$10.91	1,723
80	Moville	$10.67	1,707
81	Story City	$10.39	3,439
82	Kalona	$10.37	2,762
83	West Burlington	$10.15	3,249
84	Peosta	$9.82	2,195
85	Robins	$9.68	3,362
86	Epworth	$9.42	2,042
87	Fairfax	$8.10	2,937

The $8.10 limit

Hull’s general levy is $8.00 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, $0.10 below the limit.⁴ 442 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.23 · FY26 $8.23 · FY27 $8.00 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $3.79 more⁵

Total Employee Benefit Levies$1.49 · $141,090
Debt Service Levy$1.35 · $231,464
Liability, property & self insurance costs$0.95 · $89,423

Tax increment financing (TIF)

$77.0M of taxable value in Hull is in TIF districts’ increment (45% of the city’s taxable value), 2025 valuations, taxed in FY27.⁶ It budgeted $1.6M in TIF revenue for FY25.

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$755,27762%
Debt Service Levy$231,46419%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$141,09012%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$89,4237%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Hull’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 86 Iowa cities closest in size (1,600–3,600 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (86)
Business Type / Enterprise	30¢	39¢
Capital Projects	21¢	15¢
Community and Economic Development	12¢	3¢
Public Safety	8¢	12¢
Debt Service	8¢	7¢
Everything else	20¢	24¢

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$4.6M49%
Community and Economic Development$1.1M12%
Debt Service$871,9909%
Public Safety$813,2839%
Public Works$794,7258%
Culture and Recreation$675,4677%
General Government$581,9636%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($2.6M in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$356,175	$287,885
Public Safety	$496,492	$357,710
Health and Social Services	$0	$0
General Government	$354,020	$396,375
Debt Service	$685,235	$684,240
Culture and Recreation	$704,174	$666,392
Community and Economic Development	$710,000	$986,505
Capital Projects	$60,000	$202,448
Business Type / Enterprise	$2.6M	$2.3M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁷

$7.5M

$6.6M

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? ⁸

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: $427,273 in FY25, up 30% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 3% more. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$324,338	$328,065	$336,746	$339,061
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	$67,505	$54,004	$97,672	$88,212

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.

$58,717

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$3,968
FY20	$3,649
FY21	$58,717
FY22	$1,870
FY23	$2,196
FY24	$1,900
FY25	$0

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$3,968
FY20	$3,649
FY21	$58,717
FY22	$1,870
FY23	$2,196
FY24	$1,900
FY25	$0

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−4%$280,979 → $339,061, up 21% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 4% less
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)+45%$48,479 → $88,212, up 82% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 45% more

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 90% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 51% more.

$515,387

Federal grants, for comparison: $23,812 in FY25.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 1

Hull City Council At-Large

3 seats: the top 3 win.

Faye De Kam Winner11134.0%
Les Van Roekel Winner10833.1%
Edwin Westra Winner10732.8%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁹

Jeff Taylor (Sen. 2)Skyler Wheeler (Rep. 4)

U.S. House:District 4

Sioux County Boyden-Hull 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. ↩
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 Hull; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Hull 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.

Hull

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Hull

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $3.79 more5

Tax increment financing (TIF)

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Hull’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 Congress9

Compared with places this size³

Outside the limit: $3.79 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁹