That's an increase of 12.7 percent from 2014, when the village spent $59,894.50, or $1,392.90 per household.
Ripley has 43 households and a population of 86.
Since 2001, the Village of Ripley budget has grown by 25.6 percent, from $53,713.59. The village population has fallen 16.5 percent over the same period, from 103.
Salaries accounted for 4.5 percent of village spending in 2015. Ripley property taxpayers paid $3,070.20 for nine part-time employees, or an average of $341.13 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had nine full-time employees and spent $3,548.30, or $394.26 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.