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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

The price of local government: Village of Colp

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The Village of Colp budget was $1.58 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $18,618.90 per household.

That's an increase of 42.7 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.11 million, or $13,047.07 per household.

Colp has 85 households and a population of 219.

Since 2001, the Village of Colp budget has grown by 79.9 percent, from $879,587.95. The village population has fallen 12.4 percent over the same period, from 250.

Salaries accounted for 1.9 percent of village spending in 2015. Colp property taxpayers paid $30,115.50 for three part-time employees, or an average of $10,038.50 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $21,789.85, or $7,263.28 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
219
$1,582,606.50
$30,115.50
1.9
3
$10,038.50
2014
225
$1,109,001
$29,998.75
2.7
3
$9,999.58
2013
225
$1,119,768
$30,264
2.7
3
$10,088
2012
225
$1,141,302
$30,846
2.7
1
$30,846
2011
260
$1,000,539
$30,564
3.1
1
$30,564
2010
260
$1,003,245.75
$16,317
1.6
1
$16,317
2009
260
$314,111.75
$16,611
5.3
1
$16,611
2007
260
$297,373.05
$29,835
10
4
$7,458.75
2006
260
$699,168
$21,780
3.1
4
$5,445
2005
260
$819,379.60
$31,620
3.9
4
$7,905
2004
250
$852,419.10
$32,314.50
3.8
3
$10,771.50
2003
250
$261,940.80
$41,342.40
15.8
3
$13,780.80
2002
250
$476,820
$32,886
6.9
5
$6,577.20
2001
250
$879,587.95
$21,789.85
2.5
3
$7,263.28

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

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