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Friday, November 22, 2024

The price of local government: City of Belleville

Budget 13

The City of Belleville budget was $129.02 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $5,679.32 per household.

That's an increase of 4.4 percent from 2014, when the city spent $123.63 million, or $5,441.93 per household.

Belleville has 22,718 households and a population of 44,478.

Since 2001, the City of Belleville budget has grown by 170.7 percent, from $47.65 million. The city population has grown 0.7 percent over the same period, from 44,165.

Salaries accounted for 16.7 percent of city spending in 2015. Belleville property taxpayers paid $21.60 million for 339 full-time employees and 68 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had 330 full-time employees and 56 part-time employees, and spent $17.14 million.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
44,478
$129,022,810.02
$21,599,447.58
16.7
407
$53,069.89
2014
44,478
$123,629,715.50
$20,653,618.71
16.7
391
$52,822.55
2013
44,478
$131,530,016.80
$20,279,350
15.4
423
$47,941.72
2012
44,478
$124,169,279.80
$20,050,733.16
16.1
425
$47,178.19
2011
44,478
$111,199,649.04
$20,303,388.72
18.3
378
$53,712.66
2010
41,429
$83,471,440.56
$20,220,530.34
24.2
380
$53,211.92
2009
41,429
$86,614,805.10
$19,836,144.30
22.9
386
$51,388.97
2008
41,429
$78,656,413.98
$19,279,883.72
24.5
386
$49,947.88
2007
41,429
$75,261,909.06
$19,066,738.86
25.3
370
$51,531.72
2006
41,429
$82,791,369.60
$18,519,258
22.4
350
$52,912.16
2005
41,429
$63,543,824.80
$18,471,398.36
29.1
353
$52,326.90
2004
41,540
$59,340,000
$18,665,621.46
31.5
354
$52,727.74
2003
41,540
$61,177,806.36
$17,530,619.04
28.7
354
$49,521.52
2002
44,165
$72,926,304.75
$17,306,183.25
23.7
350
$49,446.23
2001
44,165
$47,654,806.10
$17,135,207.87
36
386
$44,391.73

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

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