Ramsey County Manager Johanna Berg and incoming County Manager Ling Becker presented a revised supplemental budget for 2025 on Tuesday with a local levy increase of 4.75 percent in keeping with the 2024-2025 biennial budget approved in December.

The revised budget totals $848.5 million – a five percent increase from the 2024 budget of $808.49 million. The original proposed 2025 supplemental budget of $835 million was a 3.3 percent budget increase from the 2024 supplemental budget.

The revised budget includes more than $13 million in additional spending, but that spending is covered by grants, so no changes were made to the levy increase that the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners approved in December as part of the biennial budget, according to Berg and Becker.

About 45.8 percent of the county’s budget is funded through property taxes. The rest comes from intergovernmental revenues, charges for services and other sources.

The estimated impact on the county’s portion of 2025 property taxes for a median value single-family home in St. Paul will be a 4.2 percent increase, according to county officials. The total impact, including city, school district and other levies, is estimated at a 5.1 percent increase, or $196. The median home value in St. Paul is $275,300.

Market values are up in residential property classes compared to St. Paul commercial, industrial and apartment property classes, causing more of the tax burden to shift this year to residential properties, officials said.

The budget includes more than $13 million in additional spending covered by grants that will not impact the local levy.

Of that, $9.3 million comes from a 2023 legislation grant to Ramsey County to provide treatment homes for youth in the justice system and support and resources for families as part of violence prevention programming.

An additional $2.58 million will go to embedding Basic Sliding Fee Child Care, which helps income-eligible families pay for child care, within Ramsey County Financial Assistance Services.

Budget hearings will be conducted by the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners in September to hear updates on performance measures from county service teams. Community members will be able to provide feedback during public hearings in September and early December on the 2025 supplemental budget before its expected approval Dec. 17.

For more information on those hearings, visit ramseycounty.us/content/public-hearings-2025-supplemental-budget.

To learn more about property tax relief, visit revenue.state.mn.us/property-tax-refund.

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