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The price of local government: Village of Indianola

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The Village of Indianola budget was $60,552.30 for its 2015 fiscal year, or $540.65 per household.

That's an increase of 4.3 percent from 2014, when the village spent $58,055.95, or $518.36 per household.

Indianola has 112 households and a population of 219.

Since 2001, the Village of Indianola budget has fallen by 54.5 percent, from $133,157.15. The village population has grown 5.8 percent over the same period, from 207.

Salaries accounted for 16.7 percent of village spending in 2015. Indianola property taxpayers paid $10,096.98 for four part-time employees, or an average of $2,524.25 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.

In 2001, the village had four part-time employees and spent $21,763.82, or $5,440.96 each.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
219
$60,552.30
$10,096.98
16.7
4
$2,524.24
2014
219
$58,055.95
$9,726.29
16.8
4
$2,431.57
2013
219
$55,582.80
$2,476.24
4.5
4
$619.06
2012
219
$56,651.70
$4,794.38
8.5
8
$599.29
2011
219
$70,518.60
$13,934.16
19.8
8
$1,741.77
2010
224
$66,927.45
$21,143.28
31.6
3
$7,047.75
2008
224
$68,133.35
$19,386.28
28.5
3
$6,462.09
2007
224
$65,701.35
$20,349.81
31
3
$6,783.27
2006
224
$67,386
$20,892
31
3
$6,963.99
2005
224
$65,602.20
$19,631.68
29.9
4
$4,907.92
2004
224
$98,162.55
$19,131.99
19.5
4
$4,782.99
2003
207
$112,140.60
$21,551.64
19.2
4
$5,387.91
2002
207
$114,689.25
$21,841.65
19
4
$5,460.41
2001
207
$133,157.15
$21,763.82
16.3
4
$5,440.95

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

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