How Williams is run
Williams spent $627,000 in the year to June 30, 2022, about $1,966 per resident.
What stands out about how Williams is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $1,966 per resident a year, or $5.39 a day
The biggest line: roads & transportation, at 20% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
The typical homeowner pays $1,219 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 1.42% of the home’s value, vs 1.39% across Iowa.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Williams’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
Webster City Community School District
Williams’s K–12 school district, shared with Blairsburg, Duncombe, Kamrar, Webster City. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $13,435 per pupil, $8,352 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Iowa districts overall: 43% local, 49% state, 8% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Williams
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Williams yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 80 residents
On the payroll in March 2022 (a Census Bureau estimate).
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Williams.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Iowa HouseState representatives
- 3Iowa SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Iowa
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Williams’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Williams is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.