Sioux City residential property owners can expect to see increases in assessed values for 2023, and some could be as high as 50 percent.
Sioux City Assessor Tyler Erickson said in a news release this week that almost all properties will see an increase in assessed value for 2023 because 2022 was a sellers' market due to low inventory and high demand.
Erickson said real estate owners in town should see assessment notices in the mail within the next week. He added that assessment value increases don't automatically translate to taxes going up by the same amount.
There is a state rollback, which is in place to fight inflation and offset large increases, and that will be determined by the Iowa Department of Revenue in the fall of 2023. The local levies, which also play a role in real estate tax bills, will not be determined until early 2024.
In a companion newsletter on "woodburycountyiowa.gov/assessor_city", the average increase in residential evaluations for 2023 is estimated to be at about 22%.
Nebraska Property owners could get more than $3 billion worth of property tax relief over the next six years under a legislative package advanced by the Revenue Committee on Thursday.
Committee members voted 7-0 with one abstention to send an amended version of Legislative Bill 243 to the full Legislature. The package represents the second major piece of Gov. Jim Pillen’s tax cut and school aid plan. The Omaha World-Herald reports the committee advanced a separate package of income tax cuts last week. A bill to make changes in state aid to K-12 schools is pending before the Education Committee.
Sioux City is among three northwest Iowa water utilities to have their state operating permits modified to increase monitoring of the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS.
Sioux City, Rock Valley, and Spencer have been ordered by the Iowa DNR to conduct quarterly testing for the chemicals in their water supplies for the next year.
17 other water utilities statewide received similar orders, mostly in eastern and central Iowa. The DNR says those results will be reviewed next year to determine if the monitoring program needs to continue.
More Iowa high school and middle school students are enrolling in educational programs offering courses directly related to employment in current or emerging occupations.
Dennis Harden oversees the career and technical education area for the Department of Education. He says the number of CTE courses continues to increase, with 9,643 courses offered in 2022, which was a 7.6% increase from the previous year,” he says. School districts are required to offer at least 12 units of coursework within four of the six CTE service areas.
The Iowa House has sent the Senate a bill that would set a statewide policy for disciplining disruptive and violent students in public K-through-12 schools, according to Radio Iowa.
The measure would require an in-school suspension and a counseling session after the first two incidents, but a third episode of violent or disruptive behavior would require the school to consider transferring the student to another class or learning environment. The bill also sets up a process for educators to report incidents of classroom violence and destruction of school property to the State Ombudsman for investigation.
Travelers can expect construction signs to begin going up in southern Sioux Center in early April as the first phase of the Highway 75 redesign project begins.
The highway redesign, a shared 2.5-mile project between the DOT and the City of Sioux Center, will replace the aging pavement and rebuild the highway. The safety-based design will have two lanes of travel in each direction and center turn lanes and medians.
