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The price of local government: Village of Ashland

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The Village of Ashland budget was $1.84 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,588.03 per household.

That's a decrease of 1.6 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.87 million, or $3,646.92 per household.

Ashland has 512 households and a population of 1,692.

Since 2001, the Village of Ashland budget has fallen by 15.9 percent, from $2.18 million. The village population has grown 24.3 percent over the same period, from 1,361.

Salaries accounted for 11.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Ashland property taxpayers paid $205,741.14 for seven full-time employees and three part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had five full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $264,446.99.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
1,692
$1,837,068.96
$205,741.14
11.2
10
$20,574.11
2014
1,692
$1,867,223.14
$232,724.38
12.5
10
$23,272.43
2013
1,692
$1,950,153.92
$167,295.44
8.6
10
$16,729.54
2012
1,692
$1,915,020.38
$199,508.96
10.4
10
$19,950.89
2011
1,333
$1,844,232.84
$197,522.28
10.7
10
$19,752.22
2010
1,321
$2,698,743
$177,526.74
6.6
10
$17,752.67
2009
1,321
$2,609,807.32
$218,969.14
8.4
10
$21,896.91
2008
1,325
$2,170,802.32
$215,439.02
9.9
10
$21,543.90
2007
1,325
$2,109,877.38
$231,901.02
11
7
$33,128.71
2006
1,325
$1,902,076.80
$193,152
10.2
7
$27,593.14
2005
1,325
$1,946,056
$199,471.36
10.3
7
$28,495.90
2004
1,325
$2,024,526
$272,587.32
13.5
7
$38,941.04
2003
1,361
$2,720,322
$274,511.16
10.1
8
$34,313.89
2002
1,361
$1,492,830
$189,263.25
12.7
10
$18,926.32
2001
1,361
$2,183,506
$264,446.99
12.1
7
$37,778.14

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

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