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Friday, April 26, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Bluffs

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The Village of Bluffs budget was $707,370 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,710.23 per household.

That's a decrease of 11.2 percent from 2014, when the village spent $796,705, or $3,052.51 per household.

Bluffs has 261 households and a population of 704.

Since 2001, the Village of Bluffs budget has fallen by 61.6 percent, from $1.84 million. The village population has fallen 5.9 percent over the same period, from 748.

Salaries accounted for 21.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Bluffs property taxpayers paid $150,197.04 for three full-time employees and 17 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and 17 part-time employees, and spent $188,636.67.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
704
$707,370
$150,197.04
21.2
20
$7,509.85
2014
704
$796,705
$149,405.62
18.8
20
$7,470.28
2013
704
$966,680
$167,734.32
17.4
13
$12,902.63
2012
704
$1,003,796.68
$165,894.24
16.5
13
$12,761.09
2011
715
$995,787
$173,654.28
17.4
15
$11,576.95
2010
703
$778,887
$170,108.61
21.8
17
$10,006.38
2009
703
$826,030
$180,603.38
21.9
16
$11,287.71
2008
748
$992,140
$156,223.63
15.7
16
$9,763.97
2007
748
$1,088,685
$130,885.56
12
17
$7,699.15
2006
748
$1,042,200
$131,947.20
12.7
17
$7,761.60
2005
748
$899,000
$145,182.92
16.1
16
$9,073.93
2004
748
$957,825
$207,197.22
21.6
16
$12,949.82
2003
748
$973,500
$218,107.56
22.4
24
$9,087.81
2002
748
$1,707,210
$218,288.25
12.8
6
$36,381.37
2001
748
$1,841,828
$188,636.67
10.2
20
$9,431.83

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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