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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government in 2016: Village of Bluffs

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The Village of Bluffs budget was $699,825 for its 2016 fiscal year, or $349,913 per household.

That's a decrease of 4.8 percent from 2015, when the village spent $735,110, or $367,555 per household.

Bluffs has 2 households and a population of 704.

Since 2001, the Village of Bluffs budget has fallen by 63.3 percent, from $1.91 million. The village population has fallen 5.9 percent over the same period, from 748.

Salaries accounted for 22 percent of village spending in 2016. Bluffs property taxpayers paid $154,260 for three full-time employees and 18 part-time employees.

In 2001, the village had three full-time employees and 17 part-time employees, and spent $195,521.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2016
704
$699,825
$154,260
22
21
$7,346
2015
704
$735,110
$156,087
21.2
20
$7,804
2014
704
$819,910
$153,757
18.8
20
$7,688
2013
704
$1,003,860
$174,186
17.4
13
$13,399
2012
704
$1,032,206
$170,589
16.5
13
$13,122
2011
715
$1,041,888
$181,694
17.4
15
$12,113
2010
703
$799,938
$174,706
21.8
17
$10,277
2009
703
$855,270
$186,996
21.9
16
$11,687
2008
748
$1,027,260
$161,754
15.7
16
$10,110
2007
748
$1,135,210
$136,479
12
17
$8,028
2006
748
$1,085,625
$137,445
12.7
17
$8,085
2005
748
$942,500
$152,208
16.1
16
$9,513
2004
748
$994,950
$215,228
21.6
16
$13,452
2003
748
$1,003,000
$224,717
22.4
24
$9,363
2002
748
$1,770,440
$226,373
12.8
6
$37,729
2001
748
$1,909,048
$195,521
10.2
20
$9,776

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

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