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