Polk County's interim administrator ... Five full-time positions in the Treasurer's Office for customer service assistants: $300,000. Ongoing expenses such as voting poll pads for the Auditor's ...

Sen. Anavitarte and Rep. Kelley propose property tax relief for Polk County seniors through homestead exemptions.

Why are the Polk County assessor and others in his office getting big raises at a time when the county is facing a budget shortfall?

Polk County Budget Manager Deb Anderson said the new tax rate is actually closer to a 1% increase. But the county won't be able to change the property tax explainer that's required by new state law to ...

More: Misleading Iowa property tax explainers could be 'alarming ... county every single day," she added. Polk County Attorney Kimberly Graham said her office has done about 800 conversations ...