That's a decrease of 10 percent from 2015, when the village spent $255,619, or $1,027 per household.
Sidell has 249 households and a population of 617.
Since 2001, the Village of Sidell budget has fallen by 11.8 percent, from $260,982. The village population has grown 15.3 percent over the same period, from 535.
Salaries accounted for 15 percent of village spending in 2016. Sidell property taxpayers paid $34,516 for six part-time employees, or an average of $5,753 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 $72,299.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.