Levy

WILLMAR — Property taxes for the Willmar Public Schools are expected to be nearly 30 percent less in 2014, partly because the district is close to paying off the bonds for its 19-year-old high school. The Willmar School Board adopted a $4.94 million preliminary 2014 tax levy...

LAKE LILLIAN - A recommendation to hold the line on the property tax levy next year for the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission was upheld Thursday by the EDC governing board. Members of the joint powers board voted to keep the tax levy at $455,000...

WILLMAR - Starting in January, Kandiyohi County residents will pay an additional $10 tax to the county when they renew their vehicle registration. The Kandiyohi County Board approved the $10 wheelage tax Tuesday. The board decided to have the state collect the tax when residents...

RAYMOND -- A request to increase the 2014 levy for the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission was rejected Thursday by the operations board. The EDC has not increased its levy since 2009 and has been "quite frugal" with its budget, said Director Steve...

COMSOS — The school levy will be decreasing 1.6 percent next year in the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City School District. The board certified the $2,406,269 levy last week following a Truth-in-Taxation hearing. The 2012 levy, which is payable in 2013, is $40,781 less than the previous...

NEW LONDON — The New London-Spicer School Board hosted the required truth-in-taxation hearing and certified the final 2013 local tax levy of $4,195,066.31 at the regular meeting Monday. The 2012 payable 2013 final levy is $155,382.55 or a 3.85 percent increase over the 2011 payable...

WILLMAR — Property taxpayers in the Willmar School District could see the school portion of their tax bill fall about 5 percent next year. The Willmar School Board set the property tax levy for 2013 at $6.8 million Monday evening after a short Truth in Taxation hearing. The levy...

NEW LONDON -- The New London-Spicer School Board approved certification Monday of the maximum 2012 levy payable in 2013. The preliminary tax levy will be finalized in December. As is the usual practice, Todd Netzke of School Management Services, the district's business management...

WILLMAR -- Members of the Willmar School Board adopted a preliminary tax levy Monday, agreeing to seek the maximum amount. The vote, which took place at a special meeting, marks "the first step" in a process that ends with property tax dollars returning to the School District for...

WILLMAR -- The property tax levy for the Willmar School District could drop about 5 percent next year. The School Board will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the board room on the first floor of the Willmar Education and Arts Center, 611 Fifth St. S.W.

BENSON -- The Swift County Board of Commissioners gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a 3 percent increase in the 2013 levy. The total proposed levy for next year is $8.79 million, compared to $8.54 million this year. The $256,204 levy increase reflects, in part, the county's continually...

WILLMAR -- For the fourth year in a row, the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission has opted for no change in its property tax levy. Board members voted this week to leave the levy for the 2013 budget at the same level it has been for the past three...