That's an increase of 21.2 percent from 2015, when the village spent $194,971, or $4,148 per household.
Brussels has 47 households and a population of 150.
Since 2001, the Village of Brussels budget has grown by 233.7 percent, from $70,787. The village population has grown 31.6 percent over the same period, from 114.
Salaries accounted for 2.7 percent of village spending in 2016. Brussels property taxpayers paid $6,300 for three part-time employees, or an average of $2,100 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had one full-time employee and three part-time employees, and spent $18,514.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.