City tax rate spikes more than 4% with new budgets; school debt service clause saves 15 teaching positions

Jun 06, 2026 at 08:33 am


Staff reports ROCHESTER - The City of Rochester on Friday released its final next-year budgets for the City, County, School District, Enterprise Funds, and Special Revenue Funds.  The City Manager originally proposed operating budgets for the City, County, and School District that were $175,168 below the tax cap allowance. The City Council made additional adjustments, resulting in an adopted City operating budget of $80,990,408 and an adopted School operating budget of $83,812,489. T...

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