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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Pontoosuc

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The Village of Pontoosuc budget was $39,767.76 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $1,019.69 per household.

That's an increase of one percent from 2014, when the village spent $39,376.90, or $1,009.66 per household.

Pontoosuc has 39 households and a population of 146.

Since 2008, the Village of Pontoosuc budget has grown by 3.4 percent, from $38,453.90. The village population has fallen 8.2 percent over the same period, from 159.

Salaries accounted for 10.6 percent of village spending in 2015. Pontoosuc property taxpayers paid $4,224.84 for eight part-time employees, or an average of $528.11 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2008, the village had nine part-time employees and spent $5,781.08, or $642.34 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
146
$39,767.76
$4,224.84
10.6
8
$528.10
2014
146
$39,376.90
$4,042.75
10.3
7
$577.53
2013
146
$39,052
$4,279.60
11
8
$534.95
2012
159
$39,803
$4,184.88
10.5
10
$418.48
2010
159
$37,773.30
$4,687.53
12.4
8
$585.94
2008
159
$38,453.90
$5,781.08
15
9
$642.34

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

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