How Your Tax Dollars Are Spent

The Finance Department is the steward of both the property tax and sales tax revenues collected by the city. These revenues are used to fund city services and run day to day operations of the city.

Sales Tax

The City Sales Tax rate is 8.725% of gross sales. Sales tax revenues are used to support several taxing entities including the city, state, and county, as well as several special interests.

One percent of the all City Sales Tax revenues are used to finance city programs and services. City Sales Tax is the largest general government revenue source for the city.  In addition, 1/2 of a percent of the sales tax revenues is allocated for the Transportation Sales Tax, which is used solely to finance transportation improvements, such as streets, another 1/2 of a percent of the sales tax revenues is allocated for the Public Safety Sales Tax, which is used solely to finance Public Safety operations and another 1/2 of a percent of the sale tax revenues is allocated for the Park Sales Tax, which is used solely to finance park improvements.

View the Pie Chart of Revenue Distribution (PDF).

Property Tax

The Property Tax rate is $9.0538 of every $100 of assessed property value. The city's portion of the $9.0538 is $0.6366. Of the $0.6366, $0.4866 goes to the General Fund for general government purposes and $.15 pays debt service on general obligation bonds in the General Obligation Bond Debt Service Fund.

View the Pie Chart of Revenue Distribution (PDF).