Prior Lake property taxes 2027: every levy, in one place
This page follows seven of the public bodies setting 2027 property tax levies for Prior Lake, Savage and Shakopee: the three cities, Scott County, Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, Shakopee Public Schools and the Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District. Each section gives what the posted record states, which can include the proposed levy, the change from 2026, the per-home impact and the date of the final vote.
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Each body sets a preliminary levy in August or September. For Prior Lake, Savage, Shakopee, Scott County and the watershed district, that number is a ceiling: the final levy, adopted in December, can stay the same or go down, but it cannot go up. The Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools agenda says its final levy can also take in state adjustments and referendum results. Proposed tax notices for each property are mailed in November. Your own bill also depends on your home’s value change and every other levy where you live, so one body’s percentage increase is not the change in your bill.
Prior Lake
The Prior Lake City Council approved a preliminary 2027 city levy of $22.63 million on Tuesday, Sept. 8, the city said in a Sept. 10 news release. That is an increase of $1,290,646, or 6.05%, over 2026. The staff report estimated the city portion of taxes on a median-valued home of $461,700 would go up $70: $15 for public safety and $55 for city operations and services. The release puts that $70 at 4.8%.
The levy includes $416,000 for three new positions: two police officers and an administrative assistant. The release says the preliminary levy is the most the city can levy for 2027. The public hearing and the final budget and levy come to the council at 7 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 8, with Tuesday, Dec. 22 set as a continuation date if needed.
Source: Prior Lake City Council agenda report, item 9A (labeled 7A in the report), Sept. 8, 2026, pages 2, 6, 9 and 14; City of Prior Lake news release, Sept. 10, 2026.
Savage
The Savage City Council adopted its preliminary 2027 city levy on a voice vote Monday, Sept. 21, according to the meeting video. The figures here come from the staff memo for the council’s Monday, Sept. 14 work session, not from the adopted resolution. That memo projected the levy at $28.6 million, up $1,919,000, or 7.19%, over 2026. Its chart puts the increase at $86 a year, or $7.17 a month, on a home at the 2026 average value of $439,200. Its table by home value runs from $45 a year on a $250,000 home to $173 on an $800,000 home, with $83 on a $426,100 home. The memo also gave a second option that would cut the increase to about 5.56% by lowering the debt service levy another $435,000, and the packet does not show which one the council chose.
The packet lists a public budget meeting at 7 pm on Monday, Dec. 7, and final budget and levy adoption for Monday, Dec. 21. Under state law the council may lower the preliminary levy before then but may not raise it, the memo says.
Source: Savage City Council work session packet, Sept. 14, 2026, PDF pages 65, 66, 74, 75, 76 and 83; Sept. 21 council meeting transcript, 00:41:48 to 00:42:41.
Shakopee
The Shakopee City Council adopted a maximum 2027 city levy of $30.15 million on Tuesday, Sept. 15 (item 9.a), on a voice vote, according to the meeting video. That is an increase of $1,933,840, or 6.85%, over 2026. The draft the council reviewed Aug. 18 was an 8.65% increase. The fire department accounted for $975,530 of the increase, a levy impact of 3.46%. The packet shows the Shakopee Economic Development Authority’s separate levy unchanged at $550,000.
The packet says the median home value rose 3.9%, from $361,300 to $375,300, and that owner would pay $52 more a year in city property taxes. A public meeting on the levy and budget is at 7 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at City Hall, 485 Gorman Street. The final levy vote is expected Tuesday, Dec. 15.
Source: Shakopee City Council packet, Sept. 15, 2026, item 9.a, PDF pages 81, 82, 83 and 89; Sept. 15 council meeting video.
Garbage and recycling rates are set in the city’s hauler contract, not in the levy. The proposed extension rates from Dick’s Sanitation on the Aug. 4 agenda (item 10.a) put a 65-gallon cart at $64.20 a quarter in 2026 and $64.67 in 2027, rising each year to $73.98 in 2031.
Source: Shakopee City Council packet, Aug. 4, 2026, item 10.a, PDF pages 76 and 92.
Scott County
The Scott County Board voted 5-0 on Tuesday, Sept. 15, to adopt a maximum 2027 levy of $112.69 million, less $7,957,665 in certified property tax aids, for a net levy of $104.73 million (Resolution No. 2026-216). The board action request says the preliminary levy is $8,053,471 more than the 2026 levy, or $89.89 a year ($7.49 a month) for the average residential property. The first version on the agenda, Resolution No. 2026-194 at $112.21 million and $82.91 a year, got no action. The budget presentation says staff added a $483,401 contingency to it.
Source: Scott County Board signed packet, Sept. 15, 2026, items 9.1 and 9.2, pages 140 to 145, and the budget presentation, pages 151 and 152.
Separate from the levy, the county board approved its solid waste special assessment for 2027 on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 5-0 on its consent agenda. It rises to $33 per single-family parcel, up from $27, and to $18 per multi-family unit, up from $12. Staff wrote that the fee funds the county’s Household Hazardous Waste facility and programs that raise recycling rates and keep waste out of landfills.
Source: Scott County Board signed packet, Oct. 20, 2026, item 5.1, pages 8 to 10.
Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools (ISD 719)
The Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools board voted on a roll call Monday, Sept. 14, to certify the proposed levy for taxes payable in 2027 at the maximum amount (agenda item 16.A), according to the meeting video. The attached state printout put the district’s maximum levy limitation at $36.24 million, up $580,630, or 1.63%, from $35.66 million for taxes payable in 2026, and was marked as a pre-certification report that will change before final. Neither the agenda nor the printout gives a per-home figure. The Truth in Taxation hearing is at the 6 pm board meeting on Monday, Dec. 14.
Voters passed both of the district’s referendum questions on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in unofficial results with all 21 precincts reporting. The results will stay unofficial until the school board canvasses them Monday, Nov. 9. The first will replace the current operating levy of $623.97 per student with $1,740.97 per student starting with taxes payable in 2027; it passed 54.10% to 45.90%. The second, a capital projects levy of about $3.8 million a year starting with taxes payable in 2028, passed 52.98% to 47.02%. The district estimates the levies will raise school property taxes by about $46 a month on a $525,000 home. The school referendum page has the full results.
Source: ISD 719 board agenda, Sept. 14, 2026, item 16.A, and the attached levy certification printout, page 1; Sept. 14 board meeting video; district referendum page; Minnesota Secretary of State unofficial results, Nov. 3, 2026.
Shakopee Public Schools (ISD 720)
The Shakopee Public Schools finance memo for Monday, Sept. 14 (item 9.4) recommended approving the proposed levy for taxes payable in 2027 at the maximum amount. It recommended deferring the specific amounts to the Truth in Taxation presentation on Monday, Dec. 7, which it listed with a recommendation to certify the final levy.
Source: ISD 720 board agenda, Sept. 14, 2026, item 9.4, and the attached finance memo, pages 1 and 2.
Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District
The watershed district’s Aug. 18 board materials proposed a 2027 levy of $2,274,580, an increase of $118,580, or 5.50%, over the 2026 levy of $2,156,000, and a 2027 budget of $4,765,900. The staff report put the 2027 tax rate at 2.889%, up from 2.844%. The Aug. 18 agenda included a public hearing and a vote on Resolution 26-419.
Source: PLSLWD board meeting materials, Aug. 18, 2026, pages 1, 3, 4 and 7.
Vote dates
In September, the Prior Lake City Council approved its preliminary levy (Tuesday, Sept. 8), the Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools board certified its levy at the maximum (Monday, Sept. 14), the Scott County Board and the Shakopee City Council adopted maximum levies (Tuesday, Sept. 15), and the Savage City Council adopted its preliminary levy (Monday, Sept. 21). Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools voters passed both referendum questions on Tuesday, Nov. 3 (unofficial until the Nov. 9 canvass). Final votes and hearings:
- Monday, Dec. 7: Shakopee Public Schools, Truth in Taxation meeting and final levy recommendation.
- Tuesday, Dec. 8, 7 pm: Prior Lake City Council, public hearing and final budget and levy, with Tuesday, Dec. 22 as a continuation date if needed.
- Monday, Dec. 14, 6 pm: Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, Truth in Taxation hearing.
- Tuesday, Dec. 15: Shakopee City Council, final levy, after a public meeting Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7 pm.
- Monday, Dec. 21: Savage City Council, final budget and levy, after a public budget meeting Monday, Dec. 7, at 7 pm.
- December: Scott County Board, final levy.
- December: Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District, final levy certification to Scott County.
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