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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Bush

Budget 10

The Village of Bush budget was $487,074.48 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $4,552.10 per household.

That's a decrease of one percent from 2014, when the village spent $491,849.72, or $4,596.73 per household.

Bush has 107 households and a population of 269.

Since 2001, the Village of Bush budget has grown by 137 percent, from $205,500. The village population has fallen 32.8 percent over the same period, from 400.

Salaries accounted for 6.2 percent of village spending in 2015. Bush property taxpayers paid $30,371.52 for three part-time employees, or an average of $10,123.84 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had two part-time employees and spent $33,559.52, or $16,779.76 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
269
$487,074.48
$30,371.52
6.2
3
$10,123.83
2014
277
$491,849.72
$30,179
6.1
5
$6,035.80
2013
277
$496,624.96
$29,862.56
6
5
$5,972.51
2012
400
$506,175.44
$31,318.76
6.2
5
$6,263.75
2011
400
$515,725.92
$31,166.64
6
5
$6,233.32
2010
400
$504,188.64
$33,800.61
6.7
5
$6,760.12
2009
400
$513,273.12
$32,659.26
6.4
5
$6,531.85
2008
400
$513,273.12
$30,071.56
5.9
5
$6,014.31
2007
400
$531,442.08
$32,941.35
6.2
5
$6,588.27
2006
400
$235,416
$33,433.20
14.2
5
$6,686.64
2001
400
$205,500
$33,559.52
16.3
2
$16,779.76

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

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