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Vergennes Township

Kent County

Vergennes Township is a township in Kent County, Michigan. In 2025, primary homes here pay a total of 29.53 mills in property tax; rentals, second homes and businesses pay 47.27 mills. It levied property tax in 1 tax area in 2025. In fiscal year 2025 it reported $905,692 in spending across all its funds. It has 4 boards and sub-entities.

Total property tax rate, primary homes

29.53

mills in 2025 · 1 tax area · about $4,804 a year on a median home (estimate)

Total property tax rate, rentals, second homes and businesses

47.27

mills in 2025 · includes the school operating tax

Levies, 2025

2

in 1 tax area

Boards and sub-entities

4

Total property tax rates here, 2025

What property pays to every taxing body (the State, county, schools, local government and others), by tax area. A mill is $1 of tax per $1,000 of taxable value.

Compare with every tax area in Kent County →

School district Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills
Lowell Area Schools 29.5255 $4,804 47.2707

Kent County's certified rates split each area's total between a summer and a winter tax bill; open an area below to see its split.

Primary homes, which their owners live in, pay the homestead rate; so do qualified farmland and a few other kinds of property exempt from the school operating tax. Rentals, second homes and most businesses pay the non-homestead rate, which includes it. What these terms mean

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

Every levy, by tax area

Lowell Area Schools · 29.5255 primary homes, 47.2707 other

Billed in 2 parts, in mills: primary homes summer 21.0704, winter 8.4551; rentals, second homes and businesses summer 29.9430, winter 17.3277.

Levy Levied by Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills
School Debt Lowell Area Schools 7.0000 $1,139 7.0000
State Education Tax State of Michigan 6.0000 $976 6.0000
ISD Voted Special Education Kent ISD 4.3364 $706 4.3364
County Allocated Operating Kent County 4.0605 $661 4.0605
Community College Grand Rapids Community College 1.6793 $273 1.6793
Library Kent District Library 1.0832 $176 1.0832
Building and Site Lowell Area Schools 0.9581 $156 0.9581
ISD Voted Vocational Education Kent ISD 0.9310 $151 0.9310
Allocated or Charter Operating Vergennes Township 0.7762 $126 0.7762
Jail Kent County 0.7417 $121 0.7417
Voted Operating Vergennes Township 0.6735 $110 0.6735
Senior Citizens Kent County 0.4914 $80 0.4914
Zoo and Museum Kent County 0.4134 $67 0.4134
Ready by Five Kent County 0.2476 $40 0.2476
ISD Allocated Operating Kent ISD 0.0841 $14 0.0841
Veterans Kent County 0.0491 $8 0.0491
School Operating (Non-Homestead) Lowell Area Schools 0.0000 $0 17.7452

Where the property tax goes here

Each tax area's total for primary homes, split by who levies it.

Of the $4,804 a year a new buyer of a median primary home here would pay (an estimate), about $236 goes to Vergennes Township (5%). The rest goes to the other bodies that levy here: the State, the county, the schools and others.

Its total rate for primary homes ranks 66th highest of Kent County's 94 tax areas. See every area

  • State
  • County
  • ISD and college
  • School district
  • City, township or village
  • Library, transit and other
  • Vergennes Township Lowell Area Schools 29.5255 mills $4,804

    Vergennes Township with Lowell Area Schools: 29.5255 mills in total (State 6.0000, County 6.0037, ISD and college 7.0308, School district 7.9581, City, township or village 1.4497, Library, transit and other 1.0832), estimated $4,804 a year for a new buyer

The figures as a table
Tax area State County ISD and college School district City, township or village Library, transit and other Total Estimated tax
Vergennes Township, Lowell Area Schools 6.0000 6.0037 7.0308 7.9581 1.4497 1.0832 29.5255 $4,804

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

What Vergennes Township levies, 2025

Only its own millages, part of the totals above, and how many tax areas each is levied in.

Levy Primary homes mills Median home est. yearly tax Rentals, second homes and businesses mills Tax areas
Allocated or Charter Operating 0.7762 $126 0.7762 1
Voted Operating 0.6735 $110 0.6735 1

Median home, estimated: the yearly tax a new buyer would pay on a primary home at Kent County's median value, $325,400 (Census Bureau, 2024): half the value times the mills, divided by 1,000. An estimate, not a bill. How the estimate works

Money in and out, fiscal year 2025

From its annual financial report, as filed with the Michigan Department of Treasury. Its fiscal year ends in March.

Revenue

$1.2M

all funds

Spending

$906K

all funds

Spending per resident

$183

2024 population: 4,958

General fund spending

$668K

budget: $805K

Spending by purpose

All funds. Share of $905,692 in total.

  • General government $450,376 50%
    Legislative (Council, Board, Commission) $6,127
    Chief Executive $33,333
    Treasurer $32,094
    Clerk $51,665
    Assessing Equalization $47,852
    Elections $58,373
    Building and Grounds $40,437
    All Other General Government $180,495
  • Public safety $237,411 26%
    Fire $237,411
  • Public works $88,501 10%
    Public Works (Non-Act 51) $80,893
    All Other Public Works $7,608
  • Community and economic development $32,600 4%
    Community Planning and Zoning $32,600
  • Capital outlay, debt service and other $19,804 2%
    Capital Outlay $19,804
  • Transfers out and special items $77,000 9%
    Transfers (Out) $77,000

Revenue by source

All funds. Share of $1,246,243 in total.

  • State grants $524,341 42%
    State Revenue Sharing $513,577
    Other General/All Other State Aid Grants $10,764
  • Taxes $467,523 38%
    Industrial Facilities Tax (Act 198 of 1974) $2,738
    Property Tax (includes, delinquent taxes, penalties, interest, fees, community wide special assessments) $464,785
  • Interest and rents $70,376 6%
    Interest & Dividends $70,376
  • Other revenue $39,059 3%
    Reimbursements $38,886
    Sale of Capital Assets $164
    Public and Private Contributions $9
  • Fines and forfeits $38,168 3%
    All Fines, Penalties & Forfeits $38,168
  • Licenses and permits $29,776 2%
    Business Licenses and Permits $29,776
  • Borrowing and transfers in $77,000 6%
    Transfers In $77,000

"All funds" is the report's total column: the general fund, other governmental funds, enterprise funds such as water and sewer, internal service funds and component units. Its totals include money moved between the government's own funds, and revenue includes money borrowed. Spending per resident is total spending divided by the population shown; the shares are each heading's part of its total. Open a heading to see the lines filed under it.

Population: DashBoard_Metrics (MI Community Financial Dashboard), Michigan Department of Treasury.

Source: FY2025 F65 Township Part 2, Michigan Department of Treasury, retrieved November 3, 2026.

Revenue and spending, fiscal years 2016–2025

All funds, as filed each year.

Revenue Spending
The figures as a table
Fiscal year Revenue Spending General fund spending Long-term debt
2025 $1,246,243 $905,692 $668,281 —
2024 $1,160,746 $834,671 $645,581 —
2023 $1,848,469 $1,430,850 $892,134 —
2022 $1,691,589 $1,663,629 $1,628,861 $331,594
2021 $689,709 $694,168 $694,168 —
2020 $968,939 $865,761 $865,752 —
2019 $676,955 $557,019 $555,775 —
2018 $659,338 $593,548 $593,543 —
2017 $643,072 $514,443 $514,438 —
2016 $570,821 $451,748 $451,737 —

Each year links to the dataset it comes from. A year with dashes across has no report in the State's data.

Debt, pensions and staff, fiscal year 2025

As reported in the same filing.

Debt and fund balance

Long-term debt at year end
—
General fund balance at year end
$1,962,036
Of which unassigned
$1,905,984

Pensions and retiree health care

Unfunded pension liability
—
Pension funded, general employees
—
Pension funded, police and fire
—
Unfunded retiree health care (OPEB)
—

Staff

Police
—
Fire
—
Combined public safety
—
All other staff
—
Wages and salaries
$235,535

A dash means the State's data has no figure for that line. Its datasets leave out zero amounts in most years, so a dash can also be a zero that was filed. The unfunded pension liability is the filing's "aggregate pension liability" line.

Source: FY2025 F65 Township Part 2, Michigan Department of Treasury, retrieved November 3, 2026.

Boards and sub-entities

Boards, commissions and committees

Transparency checks

What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.

Grade pending

A grade appears once every check below has been read and the site has set its grading scale. Every check counts the same.

Required by law

5 found · 0 not found

  • Found: Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year

    Treasury's Document Search shows the audit for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 as received, sent July 17, 2025.

    Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, MCL 141.421 et seq.; MCL 141.921 · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Audit filed with the State for the latest fiscal year

  • Found: Audit filed on time

    Sent July 17, 2025, within six months of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (due September 30, 2025; fiscal year end from its F-65).

    Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.921 · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Audit filed on time

  • Found: Annual financial report (F-65) filed with the State

    Treasury's Document Search shows the annual financial report (F-65) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 as received, sent July 17, 2025.

    MCL 141.424(3) · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Annual financial report (F-65) filed with the State

  • Found: Annual financial report (F-65) filed on time

    Sent July 17, 2025, within six months of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (due September 30, 2025; fiscal year end from its F-65).

    Due six months after fiscal year end; MCL 141.424(3) · FY2025 · Read September 27, 2026 from State records · Evidence for Annual financial report (F-65) filed on time

  • Found: FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

    Forms & Applications (General Information menu) links "Vergennes Township's FOIA Policies and Guidelines" (MTA, April 2015) and "Public Summary of FOIA Procedures and Guidelines" (file named "...procedures-and-guidelines_mta_-PUBLIC-april-2015"). The Clerk's Office page links the same two files, labeling the summary "FOIA Procedures and Guidelines".

    MCL 15.234(4) · Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for FOIA procedures and written public summary posted

Good practice

4 found · 7 not found

  • Not found: Current budget posted

    No budget was found on the Township Board, Supervisor, Clerk, Treasurer, Forms, Newsletters or Office Information pages.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Current budget posted

  • Not found: Budgets for the past three years posted

    No budgets were found on the site.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Budgets for the past three years posted

  • Not found: Latest audit posted

    No audit was found on the site.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Latest audit posted

  • Not found: Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file

    No budget spreadsheet or data file was found.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Budget posted as a spreadsheet or data file

  • Found: Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

    Township Board says the board "meets the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m.", and Meeting Schedule posts the township's schedule.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Regular meeting schedule for the year posted

  • Not found: Agendas posted for the past 12 months

    Township Board Agendas posts agendas from September 15, 2025 to June 15, 2026 and for September 21, 2026, but none for July or August 2026, a gap of more than two months.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Agendas posted for the past 12 months

  • Found: Minutes posted for the past 12 months

    Township Board Minutes posts minutes from September 15, 2025 to August 17, 2026 with no gap over two months (the link labeled November 17, 2025 opens the December 15, 2025 minutes; March and May 2026 have none).

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Minutes posted for the past 12 months

  • Found: Members' names and a way to contact them posted

    Township Board names all five members (supervisor, clerk, treasurer and two trustees), each with a phone number.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Members' names and a way to contact them posted

  • Not found: Check register (payments) posted

    No check register or payments list was found.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Check register (payments) posted

  • Not found: Employee pay or salary schedule posted

    No salary schedule, pay ranges or pay by position was found.

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Employee pay or salary schedule posted

  • Found: Current contracts posted

    Found on the second reading (a web search of the site, 2026-09-27): the township posts its Water and Sewer Agreement with Lowell Charter Township, made October 11, 1993, whose term (section 10) is "forty (40) years from its effective date unless terminated earlier by agreement of the parties".

    Read September 27, 2026 on its website · Evidence for Current contracts posted

About

Type
Township

Codes

Census of Governments ID
167084
Census GEOID (county subdivision)
2608181920
Michigan Treasury unit code
411210

Sources

Where this page's facts come from.

Open Government Project · a nonpartisan, nonprofit project

Every figure comes from a public record, cited on its page.