City

Nevada

$2,990 a yearproperty tax on a $200,000 home here, FY27, for every local government ($35.55 per $1,000 of taxable value)¹

$1,230 a yearof that goes to the city ($14.58 per $1,000)

$5.0Mproperty taxes the city levies, FY27

$15.5Mcity 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.

Andy KellyNevada City Council At-Large · elected November 4, 2025
Charles GoodNevada City Council Ward 4 · elected November 4, 2025
Luke Adam SpenceNevada City Council Ward 2 · elected November 4, 2025
Ryan CondonNevada Mayor · elected November 4, 2025
Henry T. CorbinNevada City Council Ward 1 · elected November 7, 2023
Jason SampsonNevada City Council At-Large · elected November 7, 2023
Sandy EhrigNevada City Council Ward 3 · 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 Nevada

Homes and businesses in most of Nevada pay a combined $35.55 per $1,000 of taxable value (FY27). They pay it all to the Story County treasurer, who passes each government its share; the city sets and gets only its own piece, $14.58. Estimate your bill.

City of Nevada$14.5841%
Nevada schools$14.1640%
Story County$4.3412%
Story County Hospital$1.083%
Des Moines Area Community College$0.812%
Story County Assessor$0.471%
Story County Extension (ISU Extension and Outreach)$0.11<1%

Rates over time

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

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$38.71	$14.62
FY21	$36.44	$14.62
FY22	$36.62	$14.62
FY23	$36.00	$14.61
FY24	$36.00	$14.61
FY25	$34.92	$14.61
FY26	$34.98	$14.61
FY27	$35.55	$14.58

Show the numbers

Year	Combined	City’s own
FY20	$38.71	$14.62
FY21	$36.44	$14.62
FY22	$36.62	$14.62
FY23	$36.00	$14.61
FY24	$36.00	$14.61
FY25	$34.92	$14.61
FY26	$34.98	$14.61
FY27	$35.55	$14.58

Compared with places this size³

Nevada’s city property tax rate of $14.58 per $1,000 is the 20th lowest of 52 Iowa cities with 4,700–11,000 people. The middle of the group is $15.14.

See all 52

#	Place	Rate per $1,000	People
1	Red Oak	$20.65	5,420
2	Oelwein	$20.16	5,788
3	Keokuk	$19.68	9,462
4	Independence	$19.01	6,266
5	Iowa Falls	$18.86	4,993
6	Fort Madison	$18.84	9,983
7	Denison	$18.69	8,302
8	Perry	$17.91	8,046
9	Waverly	$17.53	10,576
10	Atlantic	$17.48	6,717
11	Knoxville	$17.46	7,440
12	Clarinda	$17.25	5,334
13	Centerville	$16.85	5,345
14	Algona	$16.75	5,341
15	Fairfield	$16.69	9,511
16	Webster City	$16.51	7,763
17	Vinton	$16.25	4,962
18	Winterset	$16.15	5,421
19	Humboldt	$16.00	4,774
20	Anamosa	$15.95	5,845
21	Charles City	$15.95	7,081
22	Grinnell	$15.60	9,495
23	Decorah	$15.52	7,454
24	Sheldon	$15.33	5,584
25	Estherville	$15.27	5,796
26	Washington	$15.21	7,281
27	Harlan	$15.07	4,898
28	Shenandoah	$15.02	4,878
29	Creston	$14.99	7,421
30	Manchester	$14.96	5,283
31	Cherokee	$14.82	5,186
32	Glenwood	$14.77	5,250
33	Nevada	$14.58	7,082
34	Osceola	$14.37	5,585
35	Windsor Heights	$14.30	5,106
36	Orange City	$14.01	6,547
37	Hiawatha	$13.78	7,347
38	Sergeant Bluff	$13.70	5,335
39	Adel	$13.43	6,763
40	Maquoketa	$12.85	6,064
41	Le Claire	$12.64	4,776
42	Mount Pleasant	$11.94	8,509
43	Tiffin	$11.80	6,695
44	Huxley	$11.68	4,737
45	Carroll	$11.25	10,125
46	Sioux Center	$11.05	8,675
47	Polk City	$11.00	6,430
48	Bondurant	$10.82	9,511
49	Spirit Lake	$10.17	5,548
50	Clear Lake	$9.85	7,602
51	Asbury	$8.32	6,051
52	Eldridge	$8.13	6,967

The $8.10 limit

Nevada’s general levy is $8.10 per $1,000 of taxable value in FY27, at the limit.⁴ 247 of 934 Iowa cities have a higher general levy. All cities.

$8.10

FY23 $8.10 · FY24 $8.10 · FY25 $8.34 · FY26 $8.10 · FY27 $8.10 (before FY25, the general levy alone)

Outside the limit: $6.48 more⁵

Total Employee Benefit Levies$2.88 · $953,477
Debt Service Levy$2.48 · $954,047
Liability, property & self insurance costs$0.87 · $288,945
Capital Projects (Capital Improv. Reserve)$0.25 · $82,833

Tax increment financing (TIF)

$52.9M of taxable value in Nevada is in TIF districts’ increment (14% of the city’s taxable value), 2025 valuations, taxed in FY27.⁶ It budgeted $1.5M in TIF revenue for FY25.

$3.2M

$546,953

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$2.5M
FY17	$3.0M
FY18	$3.0M
FY19	$3.2M
FY20	$1.0M
FY21	$909,423
FY22	$1.2M
FY23	$546,953

Show the numbers

Year	TIF revenue
FY16	$2.5M
FY17	$3.0M
FY18	$3.0M
FY19	$3.2M
FY20	$1.0M
FY21	$909,423
FY22	$1.2M
FY23	$546,953

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$2.7M54%
Debt Service Levy$954,04719%
Total Employee Benefit Levies$953,47719%
Liability, property & self insurance costs$288,9456%
Capital Projects (Capital Improv. Reserve)$82,8332%

Budget and spending

Reading a local budget

Where each dollar of Nevada’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 51 Iowa cities closest in size (4,700–11,000 people).

Where it goes	Of each dollar	Cities this size (51)
Business Type / Enterprise	34¢	36¢
Capital Projects	25¢	21¢
Public Safety	10¢	13¢
Culture and Recreation	8¢	7¢
Debt Service	8¢	7¢
Everything else	17¢	16¢

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$4.8M31%
Culture and Recreation$2.5M16%
Public Safety$2.3M15%
Debt Service$2.3M15%
Public Works$1.4M9%
General Government$1.1M7%
Community and Economic Development$994,3716%
Health and Social Services$50,0000%

The state’s FY27 file doesn’t include business type / enterprise yet ($8.6M in FY26), so this total is low.

Budget compared with what it spent, FY23

Function	Budget	Spent
Public Works	$967,094	$836,058
Public Safety	$1.7M	$1.9M
Health and Social Services	$53,000	$16,484
General Government	$867,923	$861,069
Debt Service	$1.8M	$1.4M
Culture and Recreation	$2.1M	$1.8M
Community and Economic Development	$804,544	$788,772
Capital Projects	$7.3M	$4.7M
Business Type / Enterprise	$37.3M	$30.3M

What it spent each year

FY24 left out⁷

$42.5M

$34.1M

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: $1.1M in FY25, up 0% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 20% less. Grants are below.

Show the numbers

Source	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Road Use Tax (streets)	$954,102	$952,958	$978,174	$983,483
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)	$28,208	–	$104,120	$120,502

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.

$1.2M

$378,582

State grants$238,58263%
Iowa Economic Development Authority$140,00037%

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$24,991
FY20	$134,617
FY21	$598,908
FY22	$121,521
FY23	$1.2M
FY24	$384,049
FY25	$378,582

Show the numbers

Year	Grants and projects
FY19	$24,991
FY20	$134,617
FY21	$598,908
FY22	$121,521
FY23	$1.2M
FY24	$384,049
FY25	$378,582

Has it kept up with prices?

Each source from FY19 to FY25, after inflation.

Road Use Tax (streets)−11%$878,205 → $983,483, up 12% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 11% less
Commercial and industrial tax replacement (“backfill”)−57%$223,013 → $120,502, down 46% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 57% 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 36% since FY19 while prices rose 25%, so it buys 8% more.

$1.3M

Federal grants, for comparison: $302,016 in FY25.

Elections

Most recent: November 4, 2025

City · 4

Nevada City Council At-Large

Andy Kelly Winner84856.8%
Melissa Muschick 64443.2%

Nevada City Council Ward 2

Luke Adam Spence Unopposed293100.0%

Nevada City Council Ward 4

Charles Good Winner24855.1%
Dane Nealson 20244.9%

Nevada Mayor

Ryan Condon Winner80753.5%
Barbara K. Mittman 70146.5%

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

Related places

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁹

Kara Warme (Sen. 26)Brett Barker (Rep. 51)

U.S. House:District 4

Story County Nevada 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 Nevada; percentages are rough shares of its area. These lawmakers write the state laws and budget Nevada 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.

Nevada

Who runs it

Meetings and agendas

Property taxes

Who gets a property owner’s tax bill in Nevada

Rates over time

Compared with places this size3

The $8.10 limit

Outside the limit: $6.48 more5

Tax increment financing (TIF)

The city’s levies, FY27

Budget and spending

Where each dollar of Nevada’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: $6.48 more⁵

At the Statehouse and in Congress⁹