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2025 Budget Planning
Planning for the 2025 City Budget is underway. The City of Hastings values citizen participation in the budget process. See the budget process timeline below and view City Council documents for Council information packets, meeting times and more.
Budget Process, Timeline and Feedback
The city's budget is structured to provide quality public services to residents and businesses. The budget process follows a timetable established by state law. The city uses an open and public process to adopt its annual budget. The process typically follows this timeline:
- June - Departments prepare budget requests; City Council Workshop is held to discuss priorities
- July - Department budgets reviewed by City Administrator
- August - Finance Committee and City Council review budget requests
- September - Council adopts preliminary budget and tax levy
- October - Council reviews detailed preliminary budget at a public study session
- December - Council reviews the budget at a public meeting and adopts final budget and tax levy
We welcome feedback and input at public meetings and workshops. Proposed property tax statements (mailed in November) list the dates of budget hearings of the taxing districts.
News Updates
City Council Sets Preliminary 2025 Budget & Property Tax Levy
At its Sept. 3 meeting, the Hastings City Council approved a preliminary 2025 Budget of $42.2 million and set a preliminary property tax levy of $20,049,930 million to invest in improved water treatment, public safety, asset preservation and operational efficiency. The Council also scheduled a Truth in Taxation public hearing for Monday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.
View the Presentation (1:45:17-minute mark)
Preliminary Budget and Property Tax Levy - Hastings Community Television video
Documents
Additional Information
The League of Minnesota Cities has prepared some educational resources to explain the various factors that impact taxes for property owners:
The following video, Special Delivery: City Services and Your Property Taxes is approximately seven minutes in length and provides background on the property tax process in an easy to understand, storytelling format.