That's a decrease of 1.1 percent from 2014, when the village spent $248,590.50, or $998.36 per household.
Sidell has 249 households and a population of 617.
Since 2001, the Village of Sidell budget has fallen by 2.3 percent, from $251,792.30. The village population has grown 15.3 percent over the same period, from 535.
Salaries accounted for 19.1 percent of village spending in 2015. Sidell property taxpayers paid $47,066.88 for six part-time employees, or an average of $7,844.48 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had four full-time employees and one part-time employee, and spent $69,753.55.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.