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Thursday, April 25, 2024

The price of local government: City of Ava

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The City of Ava budget was $832,218 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $3,059.63 per household.

That's an increase of 1.1 percent from 2014, when the city spent $823,382, or $3,027.14 per household.

Ava has 272 households and a population of 654.

Since 2001, the City of Ava budget has fallen by 10.5 percent, from $929,408. The city population has fallen 1.2 percent over the same period, from 662.

Salaries accounted for 15.2 percent of city spending in 2015. Ava property taxpayers paid $126,531 for two full-time employees and 19 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had three full-time employees and 10 part-time employees, and spent $131,200.79.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
654
$832,218
$126,531
15.2
21
$6,025.28
2014
654
$823,382
$143,656.16
17.4
21
$6,840.76
2013
654
$826,176
$146,411.20
17.7
18
$8,133.95
2012
654
$839,944
$151,941.46
18.1
17
$8,937.73
2011
654
$855,792
$158,929.56
18.6
15
$10,595.30
2010
636
$877,344
$178,622.31
20.4
19
$9,401.17
2009
650
$855,862
$165,930.33
19.4
24
$6,913.76
2008
650
$831,002
$172,600.72
20.8
24
$7,191.69
2007
662
$860,418
$165,151.35
19.2
13
$12,703.94
2006
662
$873,480
$168,537.60
19.3
10
$16,853.76
2005
662
$779,836
$154,600.72
19.8
7
$22,085.81
2004
662
$558,441
$169,389.90
30.3
7
$24,198.55
2003
662
$600,468
$170,955.84
28.5
7
$24,422.26
2002
662
$1,146,015
$143,914.05
12.6
7
$20,559.15
2001
662
$929,408
$131,200.79
14.1
13
$10,092.36

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

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