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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The price of local government in 2017: Village of Colp

Budget 09

The Village of Colp budget was $1.64 million for its 2017 fiscal year, or $19,340 per household.

That's a decrease of 4.4 percent from 2016, when the village spent $1.72 million, or $20,223 per household.

Colp has 85 households and a population of 225.

Since 2001, the Village of Colp budget has grown by 80.3 percent, from $911,690. The village population has fallen 10 percent over the same period, from 250.

Salaries accounted for 1.9 percent of village spending in 2017. Colp property taxpayers paid $31,872 for three part-time employees, or an average of $10,624 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had three part-time employees and spent $22,585, or $7,528 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2017
225
$1,643,934
$31,872
1.9
3
$10,624
2016
219
$1,718,955
$32,445
1.9
3
$10,815
2015
219
$1,644,670
$31,297
1.9
3
$10,432
2014
225
$1,141,302
$30,873
2.7
3
$10,291
2013
225
$1,162,836
$31,428
2.7
3
$10,476
2012
225
$1,173,603
$31,719
2.7
1
$31,719
2011
260
$1,046,860
$31,979
3.1
1
$31,979
2010
260
$1,030,361
$16,758
1.6
1
$16,758
2009
260
$325,231
$17,199
5.3
1
$17,199
2007
260
$310,081
$31,110
10
4
$7,778
2006
260
$728,300
$22,688
3.1
4
$5,672
2005
260
$859,027
$33,150
3.9
4
$8,288
2004
250
$885,459
$33,567
3.8
3
$11,189
2003
250
$269,878
$42,595
15.8
3
$14,198
2002
250
$494,480
$34,104
6.9
5
$6,821
2001
250
$911,690
$22,585
2.5
3
$7,528

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

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