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Friday, April 26, 2024

The price of local government: City of Fulton

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The City of Fulton budget was $3.76 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $2,370.23 per household.

That's a decrease of 11.7 percent from 2014, when the city spent $4.26 million, or $2,683.85 per household.

Fulton has 1,586 households and a population of 3,410.

Since 2001, the City of Fulton budget has fallen by 64.8 percent, from $10.68 million. The city population has fallen 9.5 percent over the same period, from 3,770.

Salaries accounted for 28.5 percent of city spending in 2015. Fulton property taxpayers paid $1.07 million for 20 full-time employees and three part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 17 full-time employees and 14 part-time employees, and spent $850,412.43.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
3,410
$3,759,179.40
$1,070,817.42
28.5
23
$46,557.27
2014
3,431
$4,256,589.33
$1,096,607.01
25.8
38
$28,858.07
2013
3,821
$3,143,404.16
$1,079,598
34.3
37
$29,178.32
2012
3,821
$2,741,520.40
$1,085,478.16
39.6
37
$29,337.24
2011
3,821
$3,184,052.76
$1,059,214.32
33.3
39
$27,159.34
2010
3,881
$3,667,991.67
$1,087,421.49
29.6
38
$28,616.35
2009
3,881
$4,163,626.25
$1,057,369.25
25.4
37
$28,577.54
2008
3,881
$2,794,002.97
$924,545.66
33.1
37
$24,987.72
2007
3,881
$3,949,092.81
$949,602.42
24
37
$25,664.93
2006
3,881
$4,324,854
$944,643.60
21.8
32
$29,520.11
2005
3,881
$2,015,380.68
$871,330.64
43.2
31
$28,107.43
2004
3,883
$2,729,327.82
$901,061.13
33
32
$28,158.16
2003
3,881
$2,890,885.80
$878,757
30.4
37
$23,750.18
2002
3,881
$3,009,915.45
$888,322.95
29.5
31
$28,655.57
2001
3,770
$10,678,667.76
$850,412.43
8
31
$27,432.65

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

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