Assessors Budget

Another task of the mayor is to be on a board to set the assessor's budget. Also included in this are representatives from each school board in the county, and the county supervisors. We have to do that next Wednesday, and I got the preliminary info in the mail.

This info included housing info for Story County, and had some numbers that I thought were kinda interesting. In my below post, I had the tax levy for city of Roland. Here is the entire levy amount--which includes takings from the city, the school district, and all those other entities I mentioned in that previous post.

Anyway for someone in the City of Roland, it is $31.33. The highest in the county appear to be in the City of Huxley-Ballard school district. They are at $40.89. So on a $100,000 house, you would pay around $540 more per year in property taxes in Huxley than Roland.

And the towns of the Colo-Nesco school district appear to have the lowest, with Zearing at $27.18.

In other interesting stats--these are all for everything in Story County, city and rural, with the exception of Ames. And the numbers are all 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

New Home Construction 129, 75, 71, 38 (I think we had 2 in Roland in 2010)
Sale price per square ft $108, $111, $111, $111
Sale price per square ft of new homes $146, $146, $154, $151
Median Sales Ratio for all sales in the county(percent of sales price that assessment was) 96%, 95%, 98%, 96% (so this means houses have been assessed just slightly below what they are actually selling for)

Here is 2010 residential sales by price
$1 to $150,000 129
$150,001 to $225,000 67
$225,001, $324,000 25
$324,001, to $1,200,000 12

Here is 2010 sales by quarter
1st 39
2nd 102
3rd 37
4th 55

And again, these stats are for everything in Story County, with the exception of propeties inside the Ames city limits.